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Realizing now perhaps that many Americans have been unsettled by the failure of his all-out overtures for peace, Johnson unequivocally rejected Hanoi's demands for a virtual U.S. surrender and spelled out his Administration's ultimate purposes and prospects. "We have the military strength to convince the Communists they cannot achieve the conquest of South Viet Nam by force," he said. "They may delay us, but I warn them they will never deter or defeat...
...Testing Ground. Indeed, the testimony before Fulbright's committee pointed up a curious fact. Many liberal interventionists who were so ready to fight for Europe before World War II have become virtual isolationists today. Their rallying cry is that th.e U.S., though many times more powerful now than it was then, should never commit its manpower in Asia, and has no sound reason to do so. American troops have thus far proved that the U.S. can fight and fight well in Asia. As for the reasons for doing so, the President says in effect that Kennan's containment...
...virtual disappearance of oldtime network radio programming has effectively driven local stations into high-class performance. There is nothing that radio does not supply to someone, somewhere. Foreign-language broadcasts blanket some urban areas with an endless variety of information and music. Detroit's WJLB, for example, runs programs in twelve foreign languages, including Arabic and Maltese. Hundreds of stations keep the turntables spinning on AM and FM, providing baroque and Beatle, Cliburn and country music. There are advice shows and talk shows, and, most notable of all, there is great emphasis on news coverage. And, unlike TV, radio...
...disagree. On the crucial question of whether France could retain its veto over "major" EEC decisions, the plan noted only that "a difference of opinion exists"-implying that the Five would lean over backwards to avoid getting involved in anything all that important. It was nothing like the virtual rewrite of the veto provision in the Treaty of Rome once threatened by Charles de Gaulle. Nevertheless, the other Five noted with relief that France's Foreign Minister Couve de Murville seemed willing to rejoin them in regular attendance at all Council meetings, starting in February...
...Left, I think, it would be worth the effort; for the radical critique of the Establishment seems to me basically a conservative appeal against the insensitivity of a professedly liberal bureaucracy. The conservative tradition of course has no monopoly on dignity and freedom, but that tradition does enjoy a virtual monopoly in intellectually defending those values against secular, plebeian governments. Proudhon and Sorel, French theorists of an older New Left, looked to the great pessimistic conservatives, Pascal and Tocqueville, for inspiration. The American New Left might profit by doing the same...