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...should be sent to The Alternative, c-o The Establishment, R.R...
...That message read, "'In the Service of Their Country: War Resisters in Prison...
...Raguhir Singh passed through Passion, Nebraska on his "around-the-world bicycle ride for peace" and-or brotherhood...
...The merchants who supply such crutches do democracy a disservice...
...Paul McCloskey told Portland conservationists that no more dams should be built in the United States to spoil the streams...
...9 Earlier in the month Premier Nguyen Van Thieu won his second term in an election about which even his detractors had to admit that the best candidate had won...
...Therein rests the operative factor in democratic government...
...one non-cow...
...Perhaps your next satire should be on men who consider women's rights trivial but expect women to be indignant at the immorality of the draft -- a subject that is as "irrelevant" to them as abortion is to men...
...CONTINUING CRISIS (continued from page 2) kangaroo bird was found...
...15 Jared Lobdell: A Portrait of WFB...
...20 David Brudnoy on Cruising Speed: A Documentary...
...Alexander V. Berkis Professor of History Longwood College But those of us who are intent on listening to the very best performances of our .persecuted master will have to choose more judicuously...
...Stanford University received a grant to study human aggression...
...9 In Mexico controversy raged over the identity of Mr...
...No one has written a coherent analysis of the subject, because it coheres around not one valid question of essential significance...
...9 Reports persisted that something mysterious was happening in the Celestial Empire, and in Peking Mr...
...Simonds [ ] l%ger D. Tyrrell Contributors: John Avey [ ] Paul Bernstein Frank W. Blatchford IfI [ ] Bill Bowman David Friedman[']Je~ry Gerde [ ] Sandy Houlle John Kelley [ ] John Moscow [ ] Gary North Mark Souder [ ] John Sundt [ ] David Tudor Sir Arthur Wellesley [ ] Timothy Wheeler Alien Contributors: Keven Berry Nils-Eric Brodin [ ] Miss Mathews Alan Somers, M.D...
...In addition there has been a show of personal dedication to the peace movement within this industry...
...Also I have kept my copy of Cantelli's Romeo and Juliet Overture throughout the Cold War and I shall not replace it with this performance...
...I hear menacing moos in the distance...
...Joseph (Gags) Gagliano, Mr...
...Some say the left did it to discredit the right...
...All America shivers...
...4) Therefore, it must be assumed, that businessmen profiting from selling peace have openly conspired to thwart U.S...
...Someone emotionally attached enough to a cause to wear a peace sign emblazoned sweatshirt proclaiming his beliefs its unlikely to dissent or debate in the democratic fashion...
...But opinions based upon commercial images defy resolution through debate or compromise...
...Sam DeStefano, Mr...
...The time has come to end permissiveness and to take off our gloves...
...The week beginning 8 November will be Youth Appreciation" Week, the President has declared...
...Felix (Milwaukee Phil) Aiderisio is dead at 69...
...No doubt, association with as well as supplying to the "'cause" helps assure a better cash inflow...
...But, the fact that peace profiteering could be expected should not prevent us from raising questions about that questionable enterprise...
...All of these and many more can be purchased in a price range of twenty-five cents to hundreds of dollars...
...After a three week prelude of noble sentiments from the enlightened orators of Albania, Egypt, Tanzania and the like, the distinguished United Nations admitted yet another peaceful nation, Communist China, and bounced the treacherous militarists of Taiwan...
...I've always envied people who could write 1,500 word articles without saying anything of substance -- it's certainly a lot easier than being scholarly...
...There is even a peace flasher -- an electircal gadget which when plugged in flashes the peace symbol in different colors...
...8 William G. Fredericks: The Greatness of Sen...
...One company, which for ~months fought to keep from having to supply the message "Fight Communism" to a customer for his personal mailing meter, had no trouble providing an anti-war slogan to another customer...
...Kosygin was molested while on his tour of Canada, and on 20 October four shots were fired into the New York headquarters of the Soviet U.N...
...William Rehnquist and Lewis Powell got Mr...
...9 In another show of good will West German Chancellor Willy Brandt refused to press charges against the twenty-four-year-old student who slapped him in the face, and on 20 October he was awarded the Noble Peace Prize...
...9 President Nixon announced that Phase II of his economic freeze will be "voluntary," but three hoards will be needed to enforce it...
...Norway curtailed the killing of Polar Bears and the Rt...
...Cuff links, tie tacs, wristbands, neck chains, key chains and key cases featuring the peace symbol are pushed by a big jewelry firm in its nationwide advertising...
...HIS defense of women's rights (that is to say rtghts women should have because they are people, but have been denied because they are women...
...This action violated the elementary principles of international law...
...Perhaps we will find that the peace profiteers are the real merchants of death - - the death of a republic...
...By lending commercial legitimacy to rampant emotionalism, the peace profiteers have helped move the decision-making process from legislative halls to the streets...
...9 Robert S. Walker: The Peace Profiteers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Jonathan Quick: A Modest Proposal...
...Terry Krieger William Kristol [-"]Rev...
...But perhaps the month's cheeriest peace of news came when Mr...
...9 Lloyd's of London no longer will insure executives against environmental suits, and VD in Britain nearly doubled in the 1960s...
...Subscriptions cost $4.00, and all correspondence (manuscripts, subscr pt ons, threatening letters, federal grants, etc...
...12 REVIEWS _9 It was a thriUing month for the peacemakers...
...which, along with On Liberty, has become highly papular reading among women's groups and has just been reissued as a paperback by Fawcett...
...The general public should be informed that Beacon Press and other publishers of the Eastern "liberal" Establishment refuse to publish the official documents, named by the U.S...
...19 The Bootblack Stand: Letter From the President...
...Henry Kissinger had tea with Mr...
...Publisher: Baron Von Kannon and the Saturday Evening Club Managing Editor: R. James Maroe Circulation Manager: Ronald E. Burr Senior Editors...
...The Pittsburgh Pirates won the World Series, and thousands of "booing, hissing" fans showed up in Lagos, Nigeria to enjoy Nigeria's national pastime, the public execution of thieves...
...Instead, the accusation is based on greed which can be measured by an analysis of the bitter divisiveness now confronting this country...
...Tyrrell was being at least somewhat serious I would like to comment on his assertion that "Women's liberation is philosophically illiterate...
...He incidently argues for a volunteer army...
...and it would expose the crimes against humanity committed by the Russian Communists...
...Pass the skim milk, brother...
...Julio Herschfeld Almada's kidnappers...
...Some twenty publishing houses formed a group known as Publishers for Peace...
...Paul (the Waiter) Ricca and an unidentified priest...
...Pan bunnag, a renowned Bangkokhairdresser, divulged to a press conference that "there are hundreds of homosexuals in Bangkok who would like to live together as man and wife...
...I hear brayings from the barnyard...
...Others say the right did it to discredit the left...
...Large and small companies alike are engaged in peace profiteering and their trademark is diversity...
...J. V. Lawick-Goodall, an expert on chimpanzee behavior...
...Copyright The Alternative Magazin~ )971 The Continuing Crisis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Editorial I: R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Letter From A Whig: George F. Will...
...Joining pallbearers Mr...
...Bumper stickers, posters and the like have promoted peace through sloganeering and, incidently, earned some printing companies a tidy profit...
...One of the first, certainly of interest to libertarians and conservatives, is John Stuat~t Mill's On, the Subjedtion of Women...
...But the worst news came from Kampla, the capital of historic Uganda, where, traditionally nude Karamojan tribesmen were ordered by President Idi Amin to cover themselves...
...Finally, congratulations to Mr...
...E.g., the right to accept a job in a mine or an establishment serving alcoholic bevera g e s - two restrictions existing in Indiana) is from a purely libertarian position and is tightly reasoned and argued...
...Those of as who are not brainwashed by our TV networks and some papers call such actions high treason...
...By marketing goods which appeal to dissidents, the profiteers lend an air of commercial legitimacy to a movement stressing devisiveness...
...And still others assert that it was simply the work of good, clean, high-minded criminals, out for a dishonest buck...
...And lo, the fruits of Western Civilization have arrived in Thailand where Mr...
...Frank (Fffi) Buccieri at a remote plot in Queen of Heaven Cemetery were Mr...
...Emmett, I hear that even if we now try to do justice to the cows, we are too late...
...Cordially, Terry Krieger To the Editor: My congratulations to R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr...
...Anthony (Big Tuna) Arcardo, Mr...
...Vietnam - - The Edsel of Foreign Policy" is a clever cliche' from his wear-it-on-yourchest collection...
...But his sincerity again fell under suspicion as he proclaimed the entire month of October as "Country Music Month" -an obvious tactic issuing from his southern strategy...
...Special Effects: Richard Butkus Lynn German [ ] Rick Weyna Art: Michael Burch Eric Lohnaas [ ] Sandy Weeder Janitorial Stall: Ralph Nader [ ] David Peters The Alternative was founded in 1924 by George Nathan and Truman Newberry over a cheap domestic beer in AAcSorley's Old Ale House...
...Some of the anti-war books which have rolled off presses of leading publishers have achieved the dubious distinction of being bradded as outright distortions...
...And one of them has been stigmatized and dehumanized -- I mean deprived of her bovine dignity -- by being unfairly blamed for the great Chicago fire...
...Meanwhile back in Washington the Senate voted to declare a six-month withdrawal deadline for American forces in South Vietnam...
...16 ARTICLES Nils-Eric Broden: OnPaulSamuelson's MythicalSweden . . . . . . . 5 John Avey: How To Survive a Liberal Education...
...2) Some of those same businessmen are associated directly with groups which oppose the official United States policy towards Southeast Asia and also have contributed funds to political candidates who oppose that policy...
...He makes $500,000 per year...
...Egyptian students astonished government officials and most of the world's agnostics when they took to the slreets to (continued on page 21) The A l t e r n a t i v e December, 1971 21 CONTINUING CRImS (Continued from page 19) proclaim that "Abdel Nasser is alive he will never die...
...But Japanese relations with the United States seemed to be enteriv~ an alembic...
...Other good books are Germain Greer's The Female Eunuch, dealing with psychological and social problems involved in being "feminine," and Caroline Bird's Born Female dealing with the economic and business world problems attendant in being a woman...
...Secretary Connally's position on foreign trade and import surtaxes...
...the Revolution is at hand...
...mission...
...In fact, many coherent analyses of the subject have been written...
...Army "Operation Keelhaul...
...This operation forced the repatriation of millions of Russian citizens against their will to Russia for liquidation or slave labor after the Second World War...
...People continued to leave East Pakistan and New York, according to the 1970 Census Report hailed as the nation's most accurate...
...It's ideas are idiotic and contradictory...
...THE PEACE PROFITEERS (continued from page 11) sible and is replaced by signs and sloganism...
...In so doing, they have helped substitute simplistic slogans for rational debate in formulation of national policy...
...Lynn Kinsky Reason Santa Barbara, California To the Editor: Gobin Stair, Director of Beacon Press in Boston, Massachussetts urges faculty members to give their generous contributions to support a public edition of the "'Pentagon Papers...
...Those who give aid and comfort to our enemies should be confronted with all kinds of boycotts and social ostracism by the slient majority...
...It would have been almost un-American if someone had not tried to cash in on the emotional appeal of peace in the midst of an unpopular war...
...efforts to end the Vietnam War because a ceasing of hostilities would hamper their merchandizing...
...His vehicle sports thoughtful banners reading "One God, One Humanity - - Peace" and "This Earth Belongs to All of Us...
...William (Smokes) Aloisio and Mr...
...They have been milked for the benefit of white and black Americans -- a clear case of exploitation...
...After all, the fact that defense is a prime national endeavor has not prevented questions about the nature of the military-industrial complex...
...The range of products from sweatshirts to postage meters might seem diverse, but consider the following ii~t oi peace products ~aL caa be purchased in any downtown shopping area: kites, slave bands, letter seals, stationery, incense burners, wrapping paper, charms, necklaces, wedding bands, towels, clothing and bedspreads...
...We have been warned of the cows' growing discontent, but insensitive Americans that we are, we have failed to heed the warnings...
...for his editorial in the November 1971 Alternative...
...Rermie Davis, who had been promising to bring 10,000 anti-warites to Washington on 26 October to "evict" the President, failed to keep his promise and found himself in jail on 27 October along with 300 of his cohorts -- about half the overall turnout...
...Since Beacon Press urges faculty members to support its project to publish those documents, it asks faculty members of our universities and colleges to help the undermining of the very foundation of this country...
...Differing opinions formed in the give and take of politics are resolved through meaningful compromise...
...It is obvious that the publication of those documents would not confirm the aspirations of our "liberals" to undermine public confidence in our military actions in Indochina...
...The Consensus Price Index went up by two tenths of one per cent in September...
...Manhattan College, the Harvard of Catholic education, became the first institution of higher learning in America to offer a "peace major...
...If the same kind of logic is applied to an interrogation of the peace profiteers as has been used against the militaryindustrial complex, some interesting conjectures emerge...
...There is the former "'surf bum" who has made a fortune selling T-shirts featuring anti-war slogans...
...18 Correspondence...
...As you know, the cows of this country are tired of the treatmentthey have been receiving...
...Tragedy struck when one of Chicago's most progressive businessmen passed away in a federal building in Marion, Illinois...
...Yoshinori Yazaki who became the first man to commit suicide from Japan's tallest building, the forty-seven story Keio Plaza Hotel...
...Seventyfive public executions have been held in Nigeria in the past year -- always to capacity crowds...
...The anti-ballistic missile system breezed through the Senate while the House voted 210-152 to establish day care centers throughout the United States...
...11, Box 360, Bloomington, indiana 47401, Continental ~U,S.A...
...They have been left to wander in pastures that lack all aminities, including day-care centers...
...Doug Cooper John R. Coyne, Jr...
...George Nathan Associates: David Brudnoy Jameson G. Campaigne, Jr...
...According to The New York Times "tribal conservatives" forced those tribesmen complying with the President's orders to actually dine on their new clothing...
...It is in the best of the free enterprise tradition that the prices for peace products will be paid because a market has developed for them...
...Publishers have flooded the marketplace with questionable anti-war literature, surely with an eye on the millions of potential customers within the "cause...
...He is locked into a viewpoint and his clothing is one crutch upon which his opinions lean...
...However, on the off-chance that Mr...
...3) There is a body of evidence to show that the domestic opposition to official Vietnam policy has prolonged the conflict by inspiring the enemy to continue his fight despite overwhelming odds against him...
...For example, consider this logical progression: (1) Certain businessmen are en~aged in making and selling peace products which are marketable because of the deep national division regarding the Vietnam War...
...Of course, no one is accusing the peace profiteers of that kind of thing, but the logic of the argument should be recognizable to anyone who has read some of the recent diatribes against the so-called "war machine" in America...
...He pretends that this project would serve the interest of the general public...
...Bayh...
...The Cornpone Commission warned that, "We are moving toward two societies: one cow...
...O'Leary's cow...
...The Longshoremen's strike spread.The New York Times reported that the incidence of panhandling in New York was increasing, and, while Mayor Lindsay went west pursuing the winds of political prosperity, a team of scientists from the Gulf South Research Institute of Louisiana infected an armadillo with leprosy...
...20 Brayings from the Barnyard by Assorted Jackasses...
...Even better news came from Florida where it was estimated that by 1977 as many as 16,000,000,000,000,000 African snails may establish residence...
...While dissent and debate are inherent and invaluable parts of our system for governing, they are political rather than commercial tools...
...Leo Manfredi, Mr...
...2 The A l t e r n a t i v e December, 1971 Editor-in-Chie]: R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr...
...Women's liberation is a blunderbuss aimed by misanthropes and idiots at the productive elements of society...
...Since the Supreme Court ruled against the government and gave the "liberal" papers fun freedom to resume the publication of top secret documents of the Pentagon Vietnam war study, those papers will be tried in the court of American public opinion...
...Seldom have I seen such a good imitation of a Rothbard or a Rand spouting invective - - brilliant satire...
...Jefferson Davis C.H...
...Chou-En-lai...
...22 COVER STORY: THE RISE OF BUCKLEY AND THE RIGHT George Nathan: In Praise of WFB...
...Dean Acheson and Sylvester (Two-Gun Pete) Washington, the retired Chicago policeman famed for wearing two pearl-handled revolvers and having killed nine men in his career...
...Argenta is still my favorite on the F Minor and either Toscanini or Cantelli are far ahead on the B Minor...
...the program will be directed by the eminent Dr...
...Peace profiteering also has hit the postage meter industry...
...In Mexico a rare (continued on page 19) The Alternative December, 1971 19 Interdepartmental Missive From a Senior Editor I hope we can mention somewhere in our magazine the vindication of Mrs...
...But, the income incentive is obviously stronger than the democratic ideal...
...The most important warning was the Report of the Cornpone Commission, chaired by Governor Cornpone of Illwithnoise...
...4 The Nation's Pulse: Marshall Jay...
...Marketable goods expressing a viewpoint are necessarily direct appeals to simplistic emotionalism...
...Nixon's nod for the Supreme Court...
...Therefore, some of the blame for the failure of reasonable men to achieve national reconciliation should be placed squarely at the door of the peace profiteers...
...9 By the end of the month many European nations were beginning to move toward...
...But death did take the lives of Mr...
...The publication of the Pentagon Vietnam war study by our leftist papers gave aid and comfort to our enemies...
...As a faculty member, I despise those who dare to send me requests of this kind...
...It is useless and pointless to argue with Beacon Press and papers which have recently published American secret documents...
...Originally published on restroom walls, only since 1967 has it come under purview of the Saturday Evening Club which publishes it from October through June...
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