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...Barbara Tuchman '33, speaker at the Radcliffe commencement exercises yesterday, lambasted the U.S.'s intervention in Vietnam and its non-intervention in the Mideast crisis...
...Tuchman, noted historian and author of The Guns of August, implied that the U.S. had risked a Munich-like sellout by failing to come to Israel's aid more energetically. "If they [the Israelis] had not fought, the world would have sacrificed Israel -- with unction, with pious formula ... but without question," she declared...
...ceremony, one of the last bastions of Radcliffe exclusiveness in an age of creeping mergerism, the Class of '67 will hear a speech by Barbara Tuchman '33, author and historian...
Double Standard. The clearest enunciation of this curious double standard came from Pulitzer Prizewinning Historian (The Guns of August) Barbara Tuchman, a critic of the Administration on Viet Nam. In a letter to the Washington Post and the New York Times, she declared that the way to cope with the Mideast crisis was "not by futile fiddling in the U.N. but by straightforward independent action, the only kind that can be effective." The kind, she might have added-but did not-that has earned the Administration brick bats when it comes to Viet Nam. Tuchman concluded with what sounded remarkably...
...honorary degree recipients. For the year 1967, they are: Harry S Truman, ex-President; Leonard Bernstein '39, author of the Quincy House play; John U. Monro '34, retiring Dean of Harvard College; Buck minister Fuller '17, geodesic-dome builder; Bernard Malamud, Pulitzer-Prize-winning lecturer in General Education; Barbara Tuchman, historian; John H. Finley Jr. '25, Master of Eliot House and Eliot Professor of Greek Literature...