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...91 finished berating American associations, an increasing number of state...
...At least that the book would be "widely bought pened politically...
...Ford's action was explained as a decision the process, the ideals of the revolution of conscience, emphasized by its announcement on Sunday, and here again, (which, in the abstract, do not differ particularly in the light of recent national events, who would deny that the (Continued on page 531) voice of conscience is also something usually in too short supply...
...party in the antebellum period was not collegians who value the pursuit of Yes, the book is long-Solzhenitsyn able to consolidate Irish immigrants knowledge and the rules by which one wanted to tell it all-but read it for the into the party...
...PERON: Agostino Bono 522 VERSE: Eleanor Fitzgibbons, IHM 524 Minneapolis, Minn...
...Then, too, Mr...
...Nixon saved himself from impeachmajority of the Russian people has been ment by the House and conviction by the Senate, thus preventing the full rather poor (unlike most Germans dur- story of his wrongdoing from emerging...
...Single copies SOc cing in the terror and repression in their country over the past 50 years is considerably less than it would be if the revolution had been truly theirs instead THE PARDON of being the work of a small but disciplined group of urban intellectuals who The best thing that can be said for President Ford's "full, free and succeeded in such dramatic fashion only absolute pardon" for Richard Nixon is that it was a grave mistake, good because of the desperate plight at that for the unindicted co-conspirator but bad for Mr...
...Msgr...
...Copyright m 1974 Commonweal Publishing Co., tee...
...Any violent revolu- tions by saying he did not believe the public would stand for such use of tion carries within itself the seeds of its the Presidential power-a wise view, as attested by the present reaction to own betrayal...
...John S. Kennedy never able to capture its leadership The truth is that violent revolutions An Image Book, $1.75 from the preponderant "power base of are simply immoral and cannot possibly native Americans, Protestants and mid- be morally justified...
...special treatment for Mr...
...Meriden, Conn...
...With the coming of the excels in the pursuit...
...Unfortuments...
...right (for "obvious and uninteresting" until 1962, as William V. Shannon reasons...
...Thus, the whole appar- we would find this kind of argument quite persuasive...
...Thus, says life of Boston, New York, Chicago failure to be full-time literary critics of Clark, a pattern of "settled quality and and Philadelphia might yield some cries of rage by other writers who stability" was established that spared fascinating conclusions...
...with Boston...
...the indisputable: Stalin's victims were probthis, too, is part of the Philadelphia walker makes the road he walks...
...cry of rage...
...Furthermore, it is meaningless to Perhaps the most baffling thing about President Ford's action is its speak of any violent revolution as dramatic reversal of his previous position...
...why someone will always assert that a One of America's favorite poets So the Republican party remained revolution which needed force to suc- "sketches dozens and dozens of strong in the city but the Irish were saints in this spirited and inspiring ceed has been "betrayed...
...One suspects, suffered infamy in Communist and fasthe Irish in Philadelphia the squalor however, that without Irish Catholic cist regimes, he gave an informed view and congestion of New York's tene- rule Philadelphia missed a degree of of The Gulag Archipelago...
...He Please, readers, right, left and dead Catholic mayor...
...A comparative study of corrup- heads of state for approving of Alekworking people were able to purchase tion and achievement in the political sandr Solzhenitsyn and criticizing their two-story brick row houses...
...This is so, I would before the judicial process was completed...
...ably even more numerous than Hitler's...
...RAYMOND A. SCHROTH: Associate Editor ANNE ROBERTSON: Editorial Assistant COLIN L. WESTERBECK...
...It is weak-a view not tempered by the subsequent announcement, later interesting to note that as the standard amended, that pardon for all involved in Watergate was "under study...
...Foreign $17...
...of living rises in the Soviet Union, so How can this White House ploy be taken except as a desperate attempt to does the level of criticism directed at calm the firestorm of protest aroused by the original announcement of official circles...
...Civil War and the identification of the there is real hope in this September...
...232 Madison Ave., New York, N.Y...
...Ford affirmed the what is achieved by force must be Presidential right to pardon but said this right should not be contemplated maintained by force...
...story...
...By his resignation Mr...
...to arrive in Philadelphia during a Whether Philadelphia benefitted from To the Editors: After Saul Maloff home-building boom, and with the the lack of Irish domination of the ["Solzhenitsyn's Long Cry of Rage," help of available building and loan urban machine the author does not Aug...
...JR.: Movies JOHN FANDEL: Poetry The revolution of 1917 was not made IRIAN WICKER: Great Britain ALAIN WOODROW: Paris by any large number of the Russian HENRY TEN KORTENAAR: Rome JOHN COONEY: Dublin people, as Maloff implies, but by a part EDWARD S. SKILLIN: Publisher JOHN BRUBAKER: Advertising Manager COMMONWEAL A Weekly Review of Public Affairs...
...pardon represents a deal between the new President and the man who Besides, until quite recently, the vast named him...
...of a small political party...
...The worst, which many unfortunately already suspect, is that the cities...
...CHARLES F. KLINGER meant cheaper prices...
...Especially read the chapter "First Cell, Republican party with the Unionist The Rivers of Knowledge will run clear First Love...
...now Mr...
...What kind of nonsense is points out in the foreword to the book, then a professional athlete...
...You play this...
...During the hearings on his con"betrayed," as Maloff does of the Com- firmation as Vice President, Mr...
...In McGINLEY New York and Boston remained rela- view of this analysis, it is easy to see Saint-Watching tively united, it split in Philadelphia...
...DOROTHY BETTS KIERNAN dustrialism, the majority of Philadelphians joined the Republican party...
...Someone has said that Mr...
...did Philadelphia have its first Irish for the game, then the money...
...NoneCommonweal: 515 and even less than that when compared the author points out, this consigned gument that the end justifies the means...
...The facts are without an Irish Catholic mayor...
...book...
...Nixon's pardon...
...And if there are, humanity of it as well as for its horrors...
...Wittingly or not, President Ford by this cannot have been expected to engage in action has again strengthened the belief that this is indeed two nations, the essentially leisurely activity of criti- with one law for the rich and powerful and another for the poor and the cizing government and society...
...10016 them, is likening them to the "good MUrray HIUI 3.2042...
...15 a year...
...But where the Irish vote in are compromised and "betrayed...
...Clearly compassion atus of state repression is soon mobil- is something we need more of in public life and the administration of criminal ized to put down this opposition and, in justice, not less...
...con8EsrormNEWS & VIEWS: 514 CORRESPONDENCE: 515 ENCE EDITORIALS: 515 TIRE NEW NUNS: Margaret M. Carlan 516 THE WALKER MAKES THE ROAD: Abigail McCarthy 518 THE WORD OF FORGIVENESS: Ralph A. Keifer 519 Differing Views MS...
...For reasons which the author If there is a Vilas in the cutthroat Lenin and Marx must also accept redoes not make clear the Democratic sports world of 1974, there are surely sponsibility for the terror...
...Now in Paperback Initially the Irish preferred the Democratic party but during the war many CORRESPONDENCE of them drifted into the Republican (Continued from page 515) PHYLLIS party and some of them even rose to prominence within that party's orga- much from revolution to revolution) nization...
...cause, plus the rising forces of in- again one day...
...Not Abigail McCarthy (Cotta...
...Nixon's health, and normally achieves power...
...fact, the guilt of the Russian citizens Printed in the USA and published weekly, except biweekly Christmas-New Year's and June to mid-September, (the "good Russians," as Maloff calls by Commonweal Publishing Co...
...Nixon...
...this wonderful work would not get a the Democratic party and developing careful reading either by the political political machines to rule their cities, left (of course for "humanly interestthe political influence of the Irish in 000 000 000 ing" reasons) nor by the ideological Philadelphia was nearly zero...
...Yet lates thus, "There is no road...
...There was more land avail- the status of "permanent minority step- will have to repeat Solzhenitsyni s "long able in Philadelphia which, in turn, children" within the Republican party...
...Ford and bad for the moment of the workers in the large nation...
...Ford has accomplished ing much of Hitler's time) and thus the same thing for him again...
...A major northern city Spanish poet Machado, which he trans- written...
...One significant reason for Irish Catholics either to political frus- Until Maloff and all of us realize this, this, Clark finds, was better housing tration within the Democratic party or there will be many in the future who conditions...
...While the Irish in we know now why at one time there but little read" and the implication that Boston and New York were capturing were so many "Philadelphia jokes...
...In a recent press conference, Mr...
...THE SCREEN: Colin L. Westerbeck, Jr, 523 RAGE AND COUNTERWEIGHT: David S. Toolan 525 To the Editors: Saul Maloff's under- BOOKS: John Fandel, Daniel Morrissey, Jan B. Gordon, Robert V. Rentini 529 standing of the Bolsheviks' Revolution INDEX TO VOLUME C: 532 of 1917 and of violent revolutions in JAMES O'GARA: Editor JOHN DEEDY: Managing Editor general [August 91 differs from mine...
...Why, then, has he now laid think, because the opposition which himself open to the charge of covering up the Watergate cover-up...
...Those who try to dle- and upper-class groups...:' As justify them are really asserting the ar- .IDOUILEDAY Commonweal: 531...
...That hardly sounds lives, he says, by the words of the center, read Gulag...
...The necessitated force does not vanish auto- White House argues that he was moved by compassion, influenced by permatically once the revolutionary group haps misleading reports on the state of Mr...
...Ford quieted public fears about his intenmunist revolution...
...It is absorbing...
...Germans" of Hitler's era) in acquies- US and Canada...
...In view of this Second class postage paid at New York, N.Y...
...It is very well believable...
...Literature and the Arts...
...With better Apparently the price of economic adpaying jobs, with the luck of the Irish vantage was the loss of political clout...
...excitement and zest that was a part of nately, he prefaced it with the sneer Even more interesting is what hap- the history of her sister cities...
Vol. 100 • September 1974 • No. 22
