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CORRESP0NDENCE - Driving that Train, High on Cocaine Bravo to Mr. Tyrrell's November 1979 editorial ("The Twenty Years' War of the So-Called Liberals"). I can personally testify to...
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...So far were the North Vietnamese into Cambodia by then that they were reported to be a mere 40 km...
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...And what were North Vietnamese lines of communication doing lying across "neutral" Cambodia...
...On the very next page he claims there was no North Vietnamese offensive eight months into Nixon's first term...
...For those, like Worsthorne, who worry about putting the clock back, a nation which regularly jumps its clocks forward and back should no more fear a monarchical instauration than a return to Standard Time...
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...Wills studied in a Catholic seminary where he read the Greek classics and Catholic theology...
...Several states and over a score of cities and towns bear the names of royal godparents...
...CO R R E S P 0 N D E N C E Driving that Train, High on Cocaine Bravo to Mr...
...Like all clocks, a political clock is only useful if it keeps the correct time...
...I n the 1960s a select minority of Americans let themselves go...
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...If the test of a democratic institution today is the extent to which it is popular, egalitarian, and capable of eliciting the active participation of ordinary people," he has written, "then the contemporary British monarchy must be given high marks...
...If the American Republic is the citadel of modern democratic republicanism, then it is the first citadel to be constructed with its own Trojan Horse...
...The Queen, in acting out the part of the "sovereign people," is "the embodiment of those baffling combinations which lie at the heart of the democratic paradox where 'the people' both rule and are ruled, or, in a word, reign--which is what the Queen does...
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...On page 130 he mentions that before the American incursion "the North Vietnamese moved westward into Cambodia with the apparent intention of securing their lines of communication...
...Your "democratic ideals" line is incredible...
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...Lilla is attempting to do is to hang a "No Catholics Need Apply" sign on the door of conservatism...
...religious intolerance is not an attribute that is likely to attract the young intelligentsia...
...Lilla is nothing but blatant bigotry...
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...in Commentary magazine (J~ mary 1979) that the Catholics were the only large, established American Christian denomination which retained a concept of sin more stringent th~in "not caring enough...
...Daniel MacGregor Chicago, Illinois Blatant Bigotry Arthur Schlesinger has stated that anti-Catholicism is the last bigotry which liberals have been allowed to maintain...
...One of his key points is that the American bombing of Cambodia gained Cambodian acceptance for the Khmer Rouge...
...Arnold Beichman (August 1979...
...Those of us who place a liberal and catholic interpretation on our history recognize that the Royal Heritage runs, in threads of scarlet, gold, and purple, throughout the warp and woof of the rich tapestry which is America...
...Yet the 1970 incursion came considerably after North Vietnam's invasion...
...American weapons were used, because, as Indonesian a u t h o r i t i e s said, "We have no others...
...Quite an impressive case for a "ceremonial and symbolic" monarchy...
...Chesterton pointed out that since a clock is a piece of human construction, it "can be restored by the human finger to any figure or hour...
...While our monarchical dilemma cannot be solved by a Kennedy, I would suggest that it could be solved by a Windsor...
...If Britain's socialist future doesn't work, Worsthorne is telling us that its monarchical present does...
...The attack continues...
...As to his assertion that the Catholic idea of justice mixes well with "liberation theology," I would refer Mr...
...Our monarchical situation is unique, it" that the descendants of our last reigning monarch have not been idle, but have had the practical experience of presiding over a worldwide, .multi-ethnic, multiracial commonwealth, and have adapted the monarchy to the changing times, exactly what would qualify them to resume their duties in contemporary America...
...Lilla's inclusion of the reference to "nuns with chubby legs playing guitar while singing anti-war songs during High Mass" is religious bigotry (unless, of course, Mr...
...Having checked a recent issue, I found it lying and prevaricating as well as given to taking these easy potshots at government bureaucracy...
...The results of their extravagance are being felt today all around the world...
...The "reigning" element in America, in whose name the Constitution was made, could use a representative amongst its rulers...
...I can personally testify to the existence of young "neoconservatives" even here on the Berkeley campus among the Moonies, loonies, and leftists...
...The Royal Family reminds us that we were the "Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave" even before the Republic arrogated these attributes to itself...
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...America is hungry for monarchy, but while Mr...
...The Constitution, "Manifest Destiny," religious toleration, the "Melting Pot," and America as a "Land of Opportunity"--all owe their existence in some way to royal inspiration...
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...Outsiders and Americans who are quarter-literates in their own traditions may accept this, but I do not...
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...CORRESPONDENCE (continued from page 36) The magnetism of the Royal Family lies, as Peregrine Worsthorne writes of Prince Charles, precisely in "being endowed with ordinary qualities at a time when ordinary qualities are as rare as gold and as beautiful as works of art...
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...On page 109 Shawcross mentions a captured enemy document's references to a 1969 North Vietnamese spring offensive...
...Their offensive had rolled westward, and on April 18 they were reported to have taken control of all northeast Cambodia...
...LiUa further opines that the Catholic idea of justice (which he does not define) "mixes quite easily with such things as 'liberation theology' and nuns with chubby legs playing guitar while singing anti-war songs during High Mass...
...Canada shows the monarchy is not just for Anglo-Saxons, while the Bahamas shows it is not just for whites...
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...Your latest issue (November 1979) i s . . . truly a landmark issue, in my estimation...
...In Appalachia especially would such a program be extremely valu...
...Once the Framers of the Constitution chose a Presidency over a presidium, America's political question has not been whether we would become a monarchy, but when...
...Lilla to Michael Novak's article "Liberation Theology and the Pope" (Commentary, June 1979...
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...It believes, accordingly, that the enhancement of American influence in the world promotes and protects civilization...
...To swallow Shawcross's thesis takes a greater act of faith than to have believed in Hanoi's virtue a decade ago...
...Wills admits to a "retarded" political childhood...
...For my part, I am glad to forgive and forget...
...A monarchical instauration would be well within the American tradition, as Virginia was the first of Charles II's domains to restore him in 1660...
...America can either welcome a monarch in through her front door, like a long-lost relative, or have Big Brother come through the back window, like a thief...
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...Worsthorne himself, using the working example of the British monarchy...
...Lilla's anti-Catholicism is made explicit when he states that while "the Catholic idea of justice has had its impact on the American political tradition, Protestant individualism has been a much more potent force, and an American conservative must be willing to accept and work within that tradition," (My italics...
...I tossed several of your renewal reminders into the round file, but today I read, in the November 1979 issue, Charles Hornet's contribution to your symposium, "Why Are There Neoconservatives...
...Those monarchies over which the Queen reigns are an eloquent rebuke to the republican superstition that monarchy and democracy are incompatible...
...The Vietnamese still slaughter and starve Cambodians...
...I haven't read your article "The Legend of Scoundrel Time" but I am curious to know how Lillian Hellman revised the history of the McCarthy era...
...But the problem with the Presidency is that it is a monocracy, a counterfeit monarchy...
...You and your sheet are nothing but a fraud, something for the ignorant and gullible...
...Our ally, Indonesia, invaded East Timor in December 1975, just 12 hours after President Ford and Secretary of State Kissinger had visited Jakarta...
...Carlos G. Clay Berkeley, California A Landmark Issue I have been reading your distinguished periodical for close to a year and I daresay it is nothing short of superb...
...It is manifest that the "Catholic idea of justice" is totally unrelated to nuns playing guitars...
...Furthermore, the Carter administration has increased the sale of arms to Indonesia . . . . Do Charles Horner and other neoconservatives believe.., that our conduct in East Timor is a force for good...
...consented to sacrifice perhaps several hundred thousand people on East Timor in order to promote good relations with the world's fifth most populous country, which happens to be a resources-rich anti-Communist ally...
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...Shawcross's honor to he held at the V/omen's Christian Temperance Union drinking fountain on the west portico of the Monroe County Courthouse in Bloomington, Indiana...
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...The best case for monarchy was made by Mr...
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...Another of his key points is that the aforementioned American "incursion" forced the Vietnamese to go deeper into Cambodia than was their intent...
...And so they are in a fever to exonerate themselves by further diabolizing their opponents...
...I realize that what I am about to say will probably place me in the antiAmerica party, as far as Charles Horner is concerned . . . . Today in East Timor reports tell us of mass death from war, disease, and starvation...
...Does it help protect civilization...
...It is egalitarian in that it acts as a curb on "the haughtiness of democratic r u l e r s , " something of which Americans have become all too painfully aware...
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...Americans should not allow the irrational fears of a few 18th-century Public Nuisances to stand in the way of solving the monarchical question by legitimate means, rather than EDITORIAL (continued from page 5) hostile American fire by regularly attacking Americans from these enclaves...
...The American tradition of reverence to the Crown did not die with independence, but has been kept alive through a hierarchy of surrogates...
...From the Adamses to the Kennedys, Americans have shown they accept the principleof familial legitimacy...
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...In the past few years, the Royal Family has shown great interest in the monarchy's American handiwork, and "thousands of Americans have returned that interest, proving that there are those who recognize a part of the American heritage even when it is not wrapped in the Stars and Stripes and delivered by a flight of bald eagles...
...Rumors now circulate that Shawcross actually misused the thousands of documents he received through the Freedom of Information Act...
...I hope they will agree...
...Between 1607 and 1776--or 1782, when Britain recognized our independence-America, except for the Commonwealth-Cromwell interlude, was a monarchy...
...Samuel McCracken pointed out in his article "Are Homosexuals Gay...
...Still the Americans gave no military support...
...Worsthorne and I agree on the diagnosis, and that the Kennedys are not the " c u r e , " we diverge on his notion that the "extraordinary" project of a dynastic restoration is "totally alien to the American spirit...
...Liberal bias against Catholicism is easily understood because of its strong stand in favor of personal morals and against "situation ethics...
...Elsewhere he says they gained their popular strength from their alliance with Sihanouk...
...Old fashioned horse sense" is it...
...Adrian R~ Valentino Fort Collins, Colorado The Shame of East Timor I originally subscribed to The American Spectator because you represented it as a publication neither rightist nor leftist...
...Miss Hellman is middle-class and owned property...
...They raised no public objection to the attack...
...Lilla has an unusual fetish...
...Here is another of Shawcross's botched theses: Cambodia was neutral ground not to be violated by the Americans who were being assaulted from it...
...Are you suggesting that the persecution of innocent people who were prevented from working did not happen...
...Rabelais should remain the only picture over my bed...
...Where a monarch is like a middle-aged parent to his mature children, a monocrat is like a Big Brother to his brother citizens...
...Unlike the Kennedys, then, the Royal Family does embody "those quiet virtues which tend to regularity in the body social," virtues which, one and two centuries ago, were called "republican virtues...
...It i s a n office with Caesarian and Bonapartist undertones, where the incumbent constantly looks over his shoulder to see if the nation is still there...
...Horses are stupid and run toward the barn when it is on fire...
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...While I can understand liberal bias against Catholicism, I was surprised to see such sentiments displayed on your pages in a letter from Mr...
...He leaves no doubt that h i s sympathies are not with the anti-America party...
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...Horner says, "the pro-America party takes proper pride in the achievements of the U.S...
...I offer a bargain: I shall not point the finger at any living dove for his past imperfections if the doves will promise to spend no more time calumniating Kissinger...
...Besides, G.K...
...Of course I am speaking of the Communist Vietnamese, ethnically an ancient Cambodian enemy--an enemy that launched an all-out attack against Cambodia beginning March 29, 1970, four weeks before the American incursion into Cambodia...
...Herbert E. Steingass C/msterland, O/Jio Something for the Ignorant and Gullible I have received your latest solicitation to subscribe to your sheet, The American Spectator, which is devoted to "democratic ideals...
...Novak clearly demonstrates that the Pope is not receptive to "liberation theology...
...Charles O. Harris, P.O...
...Hand your child the first clue...
...Press Bloomington, Indiana Hungry for Monarchy "What," asks Mr...
...Such bigotry should not be accepted by true conservatives...
...Shawcross will receive Robbins' complete works in handsome, pre-owned, paperbound volumes...
...This assertion by Mr...
...Surely Shawcross knows this...
...As I said over the phone to your office recently, nothing could be more important to teach youngsters than how to brush their teeth properly...
...Lilla's letter concerned the book Confessions of a Conservative by Garry Wills and its review in The American Spectator by Mr...
...P e r e g r i n e Worsthorne in your November issue, "should one make of a nation that shows disturbing signs of looking to a man like Edward Kennedy for leadership...
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...this is a complete non sequitur...
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...The Americans have not been near the scene of the crime since March 29, 1973...
...Novak is himself a Catholic theologian, the assertion t h a t " liberation theology" mixes well with the Catholic idea of justice appears all the more incorrect...
...In the text itself contradictions abound...
...What about those persons" in the motion picture industry who could not write scripts or sponsor movies as Jane Fonda is doing today...
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...Lilla then ascribes such "political retardation" to the fact that Mr...
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...To have to endure such dreadful propaganda as Sideshow and all the attendant guff with which quacks like Prof...
...Because it had such a strong effect on me I am writing this letter and renewing my subscription...
...You might find one of us in a fraternity, history class, or like myself in "deep cover," slightly stoned at a Grateful Dead concert...
...How much pride can the neoconservative pro-America party take in this...
...Past Robbins Laureates Theodore V/bite, Peter Schrag, Lillian Hellman, Robert Coover, and Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., head the list of invited dignitaries...
...Stanley Hoffmann of Harvard celebrate it is too much...
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...Watergate, and Victor Lasky's revelations about earlier Presidents, show what a monocrat will do to achieve a fleeting feeling of legitimacy...
...A nation turns to a man like Ted Kennedy for one reason: emotional starvation...
...Based on what I have seen in Sideshow, I do not doubt it...
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