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YEARS OF WAR, 1941-1945: FROM THE MORGENTHAU DIARIES, by John Morton Blum, traces the last term in office of F.D.R.'s Treasury Secretary, Henry Morgenthau Jr., and the birth of the controversial "Morgenthau Plan" for conquered Germany, which cost the crusty hawk his Cabinet post...
...weeks ago, New Jersey's Clifford Case and Kentucky's Thruston Morton pulled the lanyards on Lyndon. Last week Kentucky's John Sherman Cooper renewed his demand for an "unconditional cessation" of U.S. bombing against the North; Massachusetts' Edward Brooke, a dove turned mild hawk, seemed ready to change feathers again with a call for a bombing pause; and Illinois' Charles Percy, who has frequently voiced discontent over Viet Nam before, got 22 colleagues to cosponsor a resolution asking the President to insist Asia's non-Communist nations share more of the fighting with...
...heels of Case's attack came an outspoken rebuke by Kentucky's Republican Senator Thruston Morton. His forum was a convention of the Business Executives Move for Viet Nam Peace, a 950-member group that wants to end the bombing. Morton acknowledged that he once supported Johnson's Viet Nam policies, but declared: "I was wrong...
...part, Johnson spent more time than usual expounding his Administration's policies. In a ceremony during which he awarded the 19th Medal of Honor of the Viet Nam war, he replied to Morton's charges that he had been "brainwashed"-a usage that must have warmed George Romney-by the military-industrial complex into seeking a solely "military" solution to the impasse in Viet Nam. Said the President: "We have also had to face the hard reality that only military power can bar aggression and make a political solution possible...
Died. Charles W. Morton, 68, humorist and editor; of a heart attack; in London. Creator of the Atlantic's "Accent" column, Morton specialized for 26 years in the slow, cerebral burn with which he seared pampered child stars, jargon-jawed sociologists, and the fractional fantasies of statisticians...