Correspondence
flight entirely. Many of the Republic's psychiatric clinics were emptied at the end of the month as thousands of 1960s flower children journeyed to Likely, California for the thirteenth annual...
...In addition, he presents his own prescription for "reinvigorating NATO" by strengthening its "politics" and expanding it to incorporate a "Pacific Community...
...Having c a r e f u l l y followed the debate over the years, I remain dissatisfied...
...That frightening display they set up in the Monroe County Public Library to illustrate the perils of PCBs ended up contaminating the entire building, and now the patheticoes are facing possible prosecution...
...Bethell draws out in a different way: The hard Left renounces any opposition to Communism at all, whereas liberals are allowed to oppose Communism rhetorically provided--and this is a biggie--that every time doing something pragmatic to combat Communism is proposed, the liberal is against it: "It's not that I love Moscow any more than my friends on the right do," the well-credentialed liberal argues...
...Does this suggest a split in the ranks of the Left...
...1 have loved you and given the best years of my life to you---do not wantonly and cruelly try to destroy me now: no one can hurt me in myself...
...Rarely has a defamation campaign been as effective as the one the Left has waged against Guatemala...
...I f the spiritual resources and will are lacking, then, in a showdown, nothing we can do will help anyway (on this point, I am in agreement with Kristol...
...What were they afraid of...
...What sort of man was he...
...Aline, 1 have fought it out in blood and agony and loneliness and exile--and 1 am a young man, and if 1 do not work and create now, I will die...
...I would favor an approach which places more emphasis on negotiations/economic aid [read 'subsidies for socialism' here]/expanding cultural links...
...Wolfe, and so upset the patient...
...Tom Bethell has seized on an important, emerging clich~ of the Hive when he notes the recent buzzing that "poverty, not Communism," is the problem in Central America...
...He was, after all, a working novelist...
...love me dearly as I love you...
...Harries, as well as regional groups in the Western Hemisphere, the Middle East, and Africa...
...Can you love me as I love you?--i cannot tell you how I love but I know that the thought and meaning of you is like a bullet through my brain...
...Thomas Wolfe died in 1938, some days before his 38th birthday...
...Tucker's use of the words "solicitous" and "patronage" tells us more about his motives than perhaps he'd want known...
...Give me some idea of it...
...The Republican strategy of finding unifying issues seems far better...
...This arrangement was unavoidable in the aftermath of World War II but, after Europe completed its recovery with generous American assistance, it began to lose all sense...
...of the defense of Europe against Soviet aggression without any reciprocal commitment by Europe to defend U.S...
...In fact, Tucker makes glaring omissions in regard to Jackson's slurs and to his colleague Louis Farrakhan's praise for Hitler...
...Bethell estimates "50 percent of those employed by the World Bank and IMF" do...
...The article by Ms...
...For this, it has adequate human and material resources...
...He also states that "the recriminations have been rancorous...
...Why did you tell me the name of George Bellows and not the name of any other lovers...
...Scholars speculate at their peril, but I am willing to bet that, in one way or another, through print or words, or rapid deductions from the flutter of an eye, Wolfe got the answers he was after...
...You are the most beautiful and glorious person I have ever known, and this is the person that must now speak, and act, and live...
...Referred to in the article is Nenton, a town which was totally abandoned in January 1982...
...It makes for curious reading, this cold hunt for the truth from a woman he had once loved...
...Robert Kent Schley, Virginia Mary Ball Mart[nez replies: I have yet to visit a model village...
...Of her love and affection there is absolutely no doubt whatever...
...We never underestimate the power of the market as an engine for development, and this office is doing its best to preserve integrity and long-term results in the loan projects of the IDB...
...businessmen support subsidies to the East bloc under the rhetoric of "free trade...
...My point was that the Democrats' divide-and-conquer strategy is coming apart at the seams, precisely because the more the Democrats try to divide people, the more divisive they become...
...In the Wall Street Journal for April 30, David Asman reviews the recently released report on Guatemala by the United Nations Human Rights Commission, which effectively lays to rest most of the wild accusations of Amnesty International and that noisy little committee which calls itself Americas Watch...
...No, it's only intended as an elaboration on the insights into political manners already developed in these pages by Messrs...
...Christopher C. Sundseth Special Assistant to the U.S...
...Why did you love him to begin with...
...He wants her to describe the sensation of sexual intercourse and female orgasm as well as she can...
...His indelicate act was reputedly undertaken on doctor's orders...
...I have been a reader of The American Spectator for about six years now, and have never written a letter to the paper...
...Let him bear in mind the many mythologies that have also enveloped another people, a people that lately seems to be drawing more than their fair share of slander and ill will--from all quarters...
...NATO and the World In his article, "Conservative Critics of NATO" (TAS, June 1984), Owen Harries gives an accurate account and perceptive critique of the views of Irving Kristol, Norman Podhoretz, and Henry Kissinger on what everyone agrees is "the crisis in NATO...
...The subversives, Sefiora...
...Throughout, NATO is treated as an "alliance" between the U.S...
...There is here, as often in Wolfe, an excess of sound and f u r y - - t h e epistolary equivalent of the one part fiction, ten parts of bastard blankverse ecstasy Bernard DeVoto jeered at in Wolfe's novels--but there are unanswered questions, mysteries, at the heart of this affair...
...Within six months, half the time projected, pacification had been virtually achieved...
...He wants to know what happens inside her head when she designs, and he wants her to tell him about the process as vividly and simply as she can...
...and the Gipper himself orders the CIA to finance every Salvadoran candidate but the one who supports Reaganomics, Roberto d'Aubuisson...
...It is not my point to fix blame here...
...But a year after that word got around one night that the soldiers were moving out...
...We knew them...
...One foreign report after another proved to be false...
...has no choice but to proceed on its own to seek a "unilateral globalism" (Kristol...
...be sane and honest and strong, as 1 have tried to make myself alone in exile...
...Is this another way of saying that we must "clean up our own house" before we "criticize others," another familiar tune...
...Did you feel grief when he died...
...Many of the Republic's psychiatric clinics were emptied at the end of the month as thousands of 1960s flower children journeyed to Likely, California for the thirteenth annual "family reunion" of American hippies...
...NATO was and remains a unilateral guarantee by the U.S...
...Thus National Review has nothing critical to say about Reagan Administration dealings with the IMF...
...This information would blow holes in Tucker's contrived and murky thesis...
...RET C O R R E S P O N D E N C E Guatemalan Watch Rather than visiting only model villages while in Guatemala, Mary Ball Martfnez ("Clerical Materialism in Mexico's Southeast," TAS, April 1984) might have spent some time visiting the many places where what she calls "horror fiction" has actually been documented...
...Were you faithful to each other...
...The analyses suffer from a serious common defect...
...Thoughts on Poverty I would like to make a comment about Tom BetheU's "Thoughts on Poverty" from the June 1984 issue...
...I take strong exception to Tucker's statement that "the truth is the Jews have probably been more solicitous of the cause of blacks than any other ethnic group in America, but the patronage has probably been based on a tacit understanding that blacks will return this support on the problems in the Middle East...
...Only the one Mr...
...CORRESPONDENCE (continued from page 7) tion with another oppressed group...
...But I don't think that sanction/military aid/covert action/Voice of America broadcasts/military intervention are the way to oppose it...
...She can praise the Guatemalan government's treatment of the Indian population all she likes, but the facts as determined by other investigators are quite different...
...But, for whatever it's worth, we in the offace of the United States Executive Director at the Inter-American Development Bank do not fall into the category Mr...
...This will leave Europe to provide for its own defense...
...But we must not fail to note that an equal, perhaps larger segment of the Hive now more or less admits that Communism is bad ("of course the Russians are bad guys") but suggests a pragmatic difference over how to deal with it ("the issue is how we stop insurgencies," as Art Schlesinger lectured Bill Buckley on a recent "Nightline...
...Was it because he was the most celebrated man who had ever been your lover...
...He never really quite caught the hang of it, but he got better at it as he went along: Aline, you must hate death and lies and poison in the people about you, and you must love life...
...There are, perhaps, more mysteries in Aline Bernstein than we will ever know...
...Within this perspective (for instance), the question of American forces and commitment in the defense of Europe would be linked with certain Western European forces being made available for the global defense of the Alliance...
...This formulation of the problem as requiring a global perspective leads me to the conclusion that NATO must either be transformed into a true alliance with reciprocal global obligations--or it should be dissolved...
...Finally, all charges have been dropped against that Midwestern journalism dean who was arrested last month for masturbating in front of a urinal in a public comfort station and who then broke his right hand in a scuffle with police...
...He wants to know about her time in childbirth, when she had a hard time of it and repeated the phrase "Who would fardels bear...
...Kent over stories the world was getting about Guatemala until I went down to see for myself...
...And so on...
...In Monroe County, Indiana, members of a group called Citizens for Clean Air and Water may be in hot water...
...On the contrary, the Jewish establishment has kept a remarkably cool head in dealing with Jackson's anti-Semitic slurs...
...The point of mentioning such specific groups is 9ot to single them out, but to alert us all to put wax in our ears every time the siren's call of "maintaining the moral high ground" drifts toward the ship...
...and Western Europe...
...And so our whole village began to pack up, too...
...He began as her wild companion and, God knows, no man ever worked harder to transform an old love affair into a current friendship with as little success...
...and as Anthony Burgess once wrote, himself a member of the tribe: "A novelist was not, of course, a gentleman...
...The sneering lifehating part of the earth, the desolate and empty fools, deny and hate the possibility of such love, but desperse [sic] them and tell them that they lie--I will love you, by God, as long as 1 live, and it will never change...
...A particularly skillful counterinsurgency campaign had been launched at the beginning of summer, and in conjunction with it, something new in Central America--a generous "reach-out" to peasants who had willingly or unwillingly gotten involved with subversion...
...He wants to know the approximate number of men she has slept with...
...When you loved him were you promiscuous...
...The trip was a shocker...
...A footnote...
...Such is life, as Ned Kelly reportedly said on the gallows...
...Aline Bernstein died in 1955 at the age of 74...
...Stunned by unexpected defeat, rebel leaders, now over the border in Mexico, raged impotently and their cries were snatched up and broadcast to the world by the ever Left-leaning international media...
...and be beautiful and lovely and good as you alone on this whole earth can be...
...Tucker stresses over and over again in his article the mythology that surrounds black people...
...The fragment, we are told, was never mailed, but I am not so certain...
...This global perspective is the optimal answer to Soviet global expansionism...
...Martlnez reads like a mirror image of Henry Wallace's report on his visit to the Gulag Archipelago...
...Avoiding the usual journalists' airport Sheraton press conference routine, I rode dilapidated buses into the hinterland to talk to country people most affected by the long struggle...
...An alliance assumes mutual obligations and undertakings among its members...
...It created a chronic and parochial dependency on the part of Western Europe with a corresponding loss of will to provide adequately for its own defense not only in Europe but also in other areas vital to Europe's survival (such as the Gulf today...
...Betbell and Sobran and other apiarists...
...Alas, the Left has proved expert at co-opting various segments of our ranks on individual questions...
...Tell me why you thought he died because he could not be a great artist...
...But NATO was not such at its inception and is not such to this day...
...Aline, surely you, with your great wisdom, talent, beauty, and character can be as wise as I am about it--t need your help, and I need your friendship, and I need your love and belief--but the time of madness, darkness, passion is over, we can never relive that, we can never live through it again...
...It is self-deception to believe that halfway measures or cosmetic devices will suffice or that a decision can be long delayed...
...She was not allowed to see Wolfe on his deathbed for fear that it would upset his mother, Mrs...
...The real truth is most Jews like myself, fourteen at the time Tucker went to Mississippi, championed civil rights because of a strong identifica(continued on page 4J) THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR AUGUST 1984 7 iy, he struggled to learn these rhythms, these breathless devotions, this heartrending simplicity...
...Aline, be my friend, as I am yours...
...I am now good and strong, but they can hurt me by attacking me through something outside of me in which my love is fixed--this is the cheap little New York-gossip method, but it is not your method because you are a great woman...
...An important and emerging task for conservatives, then, is to expose the superficially ad hoc, pragmatic rhetoric of the Left for what it is: a design, in which any sort of action unfavorable to Moscow is said not to work...
...Was he promiscuous...
...But, if it is unacceptable to Western Europe, then the U.S...
...He wants to know what objects of her designer's trade she worked with, and why Hamlet should wear this kind of costume and Mercutio that...
...Gregory A. Fossedal Editorial Page Writer The Wall Street Journal New York, New York Jesse uad the Jews I must write in regard to William Tucker's dishonest and slanted assessment of the "fall-out" between Jesse Jackson and the Jews ("Jesse Jackson: The Great Man's Populism," TAS, May 1984...
...But do not misunderstand me, or try to break me with threats, or make me begin something that is ended--that is the way of madness and death, 1 will never yield, I will endure loneliness and physical death before I do...
...You told me that George Bellows was your lover--for how long was he your lover...
...Apparently he was taking the cure...
...I had been nearly as credulous as Mr...
...There is, finally, a fragment from him to her which makes for curious reading...
...Why did he stop being your lover...
...You are beautiful and you love life more than anyone i have ever known...
...First they burned down our village hall, then they made us men line up in the street and said we had to join them...
...In several reports of unusual sharpness, Amnesty International has condenmed the Guatemalan government's "attempt to control opposition, both violent and non-violent, through the widespread use of torture and the killing of large numbers of rural noncombatant civilians including young c h i l d r e n . . . " Not only has the Organization of American States cited the "alarming climate of violence either instigated or tolerated by the government," but even such a less than notorious leftist as Jeane Kirkpatrick has expressed dismay at the horrors being perpetrated in Guatemala...
...He wants to know her sexual fantasies...
...The Alliance may also be further expanded to incorporate a "Pacific Community," as proposed by Mr...
...Only now is some truth beginning to emerge...
...Elias M. Schwarzbart UN Correspondent Freedom-at-Issue Freedom House New York, New York THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR AUGUST 1984 45...
...The day I stopped there last summer a dozen families had just returned from self-imposed exile in Mexico...
...This in turn presupposes that the Alliance will coordinate a global geopolitical strategy, instead of constantly working at cross-purposes (as, say, in Central America...
...That is, we know that development in Latin America must go hand-in-hand with security and democracy...
...The point of my article was simply to dispel the myth that all black voters that turned out for Jackson in the primaries would be happily incorporated into a united Democratic party next fail...
...Worse still, the very dependency gave rise to increasing anti-Americanism in Europe and, in the U.S., to growing resentment against the failure of Europe to carry its fair share of the burden of its own defense and in maintaining world peace threatened by Soviet global expansionism...
...Robin Vigfusson Nutley, New Jersey William Tucker replies: This and other letters charge that my article was too much of an apology for Jackson, and did not go far enough in condemning his anti-Semitism...
...One night they came to Nenton...
...It climaxed in the l~tte fall of 1982 when, after twenty years in the field, the rebels, under Cuban-trained leadership, suddenly found themselves bereft of that essential base for guerrilla warfare, namely peasant support...
...I asked them why they had all run away...
...Lately in Mexico we heard the Army had beaten the subversives all over the country, so we decided to come back...
...This may seem obvious now, but at the time Dan Rather was still cheerily asking Walter Mondale if he was going to select Jackson for his Vice President...
...He has become the writer hunting for material, imperious in his own right...
...As for China, while the West has apparentl~ lost the chance (which existed briefly) for a strategic relationship, China will nevertheless objectively be a force for world peace since it must continue to oppose Soviet encirclement and its vast modernization program depends on close economic ties with the West into the next century (incidentally, creating an alternative model for the Third World...
...The truth does not always sing in a birdcage for the ease of mortal man...
...However, the requirements of epistolary compression compel me to state my position in summary form...
...Executive Director Inter-American Development Bank Washington, D.C...
...Then the Army came...
...or Western security interests outside of Europe...
...When we didn't agree to that they killed our Mayor and his helper...
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