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...following is an address by George Hunston Williams, Hollis Professor of Divinity, delivered in Appleton Chapel in the Memorial Church, Harvard University, during a service in observance of the Vietnam Moratorium, November...
...struggle between that kind of patriotism and what most of us would consider the higher patriotism of prophetic self-criticism that the flag of our American commonwealth be neither abandoned by us nor ripped apart in the imminent encounter, even when we insist that the remarks about the moratorium and the mobilization by the former governor of this state and by the Vice-President are, because of the eminence of these spokesmen of administration policy, a more serious aggravation of the frightening moral schism in our society than the introduction of Vietcong symbols by youthful extremists on our side...
...articulate spokesman," says Opie Shelton of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce. Nixon, Mitchell and Agnew speak to Middle America, but they are not its leaders. Nixon, in fact, excites little of the personal enthusiasm that even Agnew can arouse. Nor does Middle America have any organization. The anti-Moratorium rallies, for example, were largely a failure. For all the great joiner's tradition in the U.S., Middle America is diffuse and tends to be private to the point of self-consciousness ?demonstrating is not its style...
...second-generation Americans, expressed the especially virulent outrage of the poorer Middle Americans. "The professional liberals let the genie out of the bottle?racial hatred, lawlessness," says Deac. The backlash today is not so much against blacks per se as against black militancy and the white intellectuals: "The Moratorium was a stab in the back to our boys on the firing lines. Our families don't have long-haired brats?they'd tear the hair off them. Our boys don't smoke pot or raise hell or seek deferments. Our people are too busy making a living and trying...
...Florida's stay of execution for inmates on death row begins a t w o-year moratorium on capital punishment...