LETTERS
Editor: The threat to Israel's survival compels democratic socialists to reconsider their attitude toward American foreign policy in the face of unabated Communist expansionism in the Near...
...with a view of assisting democratic forces inside Spain" (AFLCIO News, 12/26/70...
...The passage the footnote refers to says that to have access to Canada's mineral resources, the U.S...
...But not much happened in the U.S., perhaps the one nation whose sentiments were likely to influence Franco...
...ELIAS M. SCHWARZBART U Spain Editor: American liberals and radicals have just fumbled an issue so vital I am moved to speak in the hope it might still be picked up...
...she shrugged bitterly...
...These might include much greater flexibility, on the model of "lateral entry," in admitting women to full participation, even if they have not always earned the usual "points" in terms of a more conventional career...
...Already we see emerging the first outlines of a Far East settlement, including also Red China...
...He did not elaborate," concludes the short item in the Philadelphia Inquirer...
...This is not true...
...In my reply of June 30, 1970, I assured him inno uncertain terms that he had an obligation tomake a public retraction...
...The name of Peru's President, before the recent upheaval, was Juan Velasco Alvarado...
...The Summer 1970 issue of Antioch Review arrived in New York in October.—ED.] The dates must be kept in mind...
...Let me translate the question to one in terms of the realities: "Suppose the Arabs, spurred on by the Russians (as in 1967), but this time with open and direct Russian military support, repudiate the settlement framework of the November 1967 U.N...
...Here it was, says the New York Times (12/14/70), that some 280 Catalonian artists and intellectuals conducted a 48-hour sit-in to protest the Basque trials...
...And, my friends, what courage it will give the Spanish people when they see Americans care...
...The effect of this has been to generate self-financing through retained earnings and depreciation reserves...
...But the point at issue is not the percentage of foreign investment itself...
...But those $18.1 billion, of course, constitute too large a percentage of Canada's total investment, and I wholly agree that Canada might want to curb further encroachments by U.S...
...There will be U.S...
...Franco was flooded with protests—both official and popular—against this military trial of civilians...
...Canada has about one-tenth of the U.S...
...The Hochschilds and Patinos, I am glad to be told, are no longer in the mining business...
...Although you didn't ask my permission to printmy letters to Draper, you have my permission toprint this one...
...As Mr...
...HANNA PAPANEK 0 University of Chicago Editor's Complaint Editor: I'm amazed that you thought my private correspondence with Theodore Draper so interesting, or illuminating, or typical, or—just what did you think?—that you would want to devote two pages of DISSENT to its reproduction [DISSENT, September– October 1970...
...The original"erroneous reference" appeared in The Antioch Review of Summer 1969...
...Without advising me, he went ahead with his note of correctionin the Summer 1970 issue of The Antioch Review, while DISSENT was going to press...
...population...
...In my view, the correct and principled position is to support our basic Vietnam commitment, but to vigorously oppose at every step the various strategies short of a political settlement expressing the will of the Vietnamese people...
...The Spanish economy was strong enough, he said, to permit reorganization and reinforcement of the armed forces, and LETTERS the chiefs of staff were studying plans to perfect their armament and training...
...investment in Canada and Australia, and I devoted a full section of my article to "international corporations...
...Too bad: he seems to have learned nothingand forgotten everything...
...Or, is it possibly in defense of the principle that every state, without regard to its internal structure or government, has the inherent right to exist free of foreign aggression, direct and indirect, and that it is a proper exercise of American foreign policy to come to the aid of a nation so threatened...
...Since history has proven that aggression can be discouraged only if the aggressor knows that force will be met by force, then only a courageous "Yes" to the question can weight the balance in favor of peace...
...His letter to me of June 25, 1970, clearlyindicated that he sought to evade the responsibilityof correcting the "erroneous reference...
...To Valencia of course—a radical hangout—and not to forget Barcelona...
...Is it not patent that it was the sober United States policy of show of force in the Middle East, coupled with a principled initiative for a peaceful settlement, that has kept open the prospect of peace...
...One aspect of the situation of educated academic women that I would have liked to see treated more extensively forms part of a general concern with rigidities in university structure...
...To the brink of war...
...For example, 97 percent of the automobile and spare-parts industries were foreign-controlled in 1963, rubber was the same, the electric industry was 77 percent foreign-controlled, agricultural machinery was 50 percent, and so on...
...Grauman...
...In the footnote referred to, however, the point was precisely that Canada can do so because it is sovereign—or "independent"—in the formulation of her economic policy...
...Correspondence concerning the above matter is now closed.—ED...
...EvidentlyMr...
...It should also be possible to work out joint appointments not only between departments, but also between different types of universities and colleges...
...And we must pull together that old labor-liberal coalition we used to talk about, to tackle this issue in an effective, well-planned way, but fast...
...I asked DISSENT to publish the correspondence because there seemed no other way to teach him a lesson...
...In the Summer 1970 issue of The Antioch Review we printed a very prominent notice of correction— I am enclosing a copy of it with this letter— in which we sincerely and unambiguously stated our regret at having printed the erroneousreference to Mr...
...To what avail work to elect congressmen and senators to office if we can't get them to move on this...
...Is it in the interest of the survival of the State of Israel qua Israel...
...does not need to be the overlord but can buy what it needs...
...public opinion— and public policy—most important...
...In defense of valid American interests...
...government "to bring to bear full diplomatic and economic pressure on the Spanish tyrannical regime to end its barbarism," and "free trade unions everywhere to consider joint action...
...The anti-Fascist protests throughout Spain sparked by the recent Basque court-martial got shamefully little support from us...
...1) The first question is, "Why is it our duty to support Israel...
...It would be good if DISSENT continued its concern with these, and broader, questions in this area...
...Finally I saw mention in the press of two American protests— one by AFL-CIO President George Meany, the other by a "group of writers, publishers, intellectuals, and political figures calling itself the Spanish Emergency Committee 1970" (New York Times, 12/21/70...
...1) 1963 figures show the following: NON-RESIDENT CONTROL AS A PERCENTAGE OF SELECTED CANADIAN INDUSTRIES: (1963) percent of percent of total contotal controlled by trolled by all non-U.S...
...We must hold back those battleships now, and we must guard against future U.S...
...resiresidents...
...It may be that together we can move to stop the U.S...
...It is absurd that a commonplace autorial and editorial lapse couldbe inflated, with your assistance, to the dimensions of a serious political conflict...
...Mr...
...Draper...
...He told a meeting of government officials that the costs of the material, part of the U.S.-Spanish Friendship and Cooperation Agreement signed last year, originally was estimated at $88 million...
...Therefore, despite the differences, it is all one struggle...
...LETTERS (2) There has been a change in type of investment from portfolio to direct investment...
...In this respect I wonder whether Canadian textbooks contain information as to Anglo-Canadian investments in the province of Quebec similar to the statistics Mr...
...Neither can you...
...To Gijon to take care of the Asturian miners with their predilection for troublesome strikes...
...Between 1867 and 1965 the proportion of total foreign investment that was direct grew from 7.5 percent to 58.3 percent...
...To Bilbao to squelch the Basque dissidents who started the latest ruckus...
...Pokrant's table shows, mining and oil account for most of the U.S...
...The last I heard about itwas a two line note from his secretary dated July2, 1970: "Mr...
...Editor: The threat to Israel's survival compels democratic socialists to reconsider their attitude toward American foreign policy in the face of unabated Communist expansionism in the Near East as well as Southeast Asia...
...Theodore Draper is a formidable and invaluablescholar, but he is also a pompous, imperious and, apparently, paranoid person...
...What should one call Mr...
...Grauman will be in transit for the next two weeks, and will be in touch with you assoon as he returns to Yellow Springs...
...The only affirmative reason advanced for justifying American and world support is that Israel is a democratic state...
...It took four letters by meand three more issues of his magazine to get a retraction out of him...
...battleship loan to Franco...
...This assumption was pure invention on his part, as the published correspondence shows, but the issue was not merely whether Icared but whether he cared...
...Must we not support this policy with all the risks it necessarily involves—and say so...
...Beyond it...
...But this is an evasion, because it is "the" question, and more than a phrase is required...
...It is a bad habit...
...Paranoia because I defended my good name...
...Meany's statement was strong, urging the U.S...
...the figures, therefore, are not astonishing...
...Consider the following two news items: On December 21 Franco's principal assistant, Vice-President Admiral Carrero Blanco, told the Spanish parliament the recent anti-government activity around the country was Communist-inspired and that the armed forces would be strengthened to combat it (my emphasis...
...I do not know how close the Spanish are now to significant revolt...
...To Almeria too, to keep an eye on those resentful people still sickening from the radioactivity of the American nuclear bombs that fell in the sea there two years ago...
...Canada is not economically independent, many Canadians know this and there is a growing debate in Canada over the Americanization of not only industry but such areas of life as the content of textbooks and the staffing of the universities...
...Cadiz and Malaga will corner between them those volatile Andalusians who can't stomach the absentee landowners who keep their stomachs empty—with perhaps a slight land expedition to barren Estremadura, where the slaughter of thousands of Loyalists in the Badajoz bullring is still vivid in memory...
...What can they be...
...to $2.6 billion...
...Bolivia's President, Alfredo Ovando Candia...
...capital...
...4) If one breaks down the sectors of the economy into their different types of products one finds that foreign control is even greater...
...463-64 that Canada, among other nations, is economically independent...
...Editor, Antioch Review THEODORE DRAPER replies: Mr...
...Increased flexibilities of this sort LETTERS might go part of the way toward solving situationsin which highly trained academic women continuefor years to teach introductory courses without everfinding the opportunity to develop their own specialization...
...battleships in the colorful Barcelona harbor—unless we stop them from getting there...
...the question is whether Canada can decide for itself whether it wishes to attract foreign capital or to curb its inflow...
...resolution and threaten once more to engulf Israel, and Israel is unable to cope with this alone, should the United States support Israel, even at the risk of war with Russia...
...is greater than the reverse process...
...EVELYN MILLER STAHL N Philadelphia Women in Universities Editor: Alice Rossi's article "Women—The Terms of Liberation" in your November–December issue is one of the best yet in the current rash of articles about, by, for and against women...
...Reliable press reports over the past couple of months have indicated a broad range of increasing opposition to Franco, from Right to Left...
...LAWRENCE GRAUMAN, JR...
...aid to Spain to be used in suppressing popular revolt...
...R. J. POKRANT University of British ColumbiaVancouver, Canada HENRY PACHTER answers: First of all, I should like to take this opportunity to correct a few inaccuracies in my essay...
...His excuse was that he had assumed I "no longer cared abouta printed retraction...
...No need to rehash all that...
...Why say perhaps we can still pick up on the issue Americans fumbled so shamefully...
...Draper in anarticle published in The Antioch Review—an unintentional and regrettable lapse on the part of ayoung and inexperienced writer—and my subsequent misunderstanding of Draper's insistence on a printed correction, I am reluctant to add thesefew lines to the Letters column of your next issue...
...In Barcelona this spring I heard a few thousand participants in a Palm Sunday religious ceremony sing in Spanish, "We Shall Overcome...
...The Catalonian spirit is as independent as the Basque...
...Pokrant is entitled to quote investment statistics, but he need not for that purpose misuse a footnote of mine that refers to quite a different matter...
...Such rotating or time-sharing appointments would be especially useful for people with unusual special ties, and might give both men and women a very welcome alternation between a large university and a small college...
...From 1936 till '39 the legal government, the democratically elected Second Republic, des perately needed arms to quell an insurrection...
...It is just this refusal to face even "agonizing" alternatives that Russia considers in her calculations...
...At one point, an official reportedly told the abbot by telephone that the meeting was `a provocation.' 'So was the Burgos court-martial,' the abbot reportedly replied...
...investment in Canada, while the figure for "manufacturing" is raised by the automobile industry...
...Things are shaky in Spain and unrest is likely to continue...
...On the other hand, I think I did refer to the $21 billion U.S...
...In the interest of socialism...
...Grauman did not get in touch with me...
...I placed it with Chile and Australia in the category of countries that are sovereign in their economic policy...
...All through Europe people demonstrated in sympathy at Spanish embassies and consulates...
...3) It has been argued that Canada is now entering a stage of growth in which the flow of funds from Canada to the U.S...
...One such effort is Irving Howe's "Vietnam and Israel" (September-October 1970), which poignantly reveals the moral dilemma, but which unfortunately leaves the necessary questions unanswered...
...warships will be distributed about Spain's seaports with a deadly aim...
...As a fellow sociologist, I find that the article speaks very much to my own condition and fulfills the limited pur pose it sets for itself...
...I can hardly beblamed for not knowing about his belated intentions...
...In other words, foreignowned Canadian companies pay for their further operations through their extraction, processing, and marketing of Canadian resources, goods, and services...
...As to American cultural imperialism, I cannot wait to get back to the Adirondacks and to listen to Canadian broadcasts, and I sincerely hope that Canadian college professors select the best textbooks available, of whatever nationality...
...On January 6 an item in the Philadelphia Bulletin, also with a Madrid dateline, supplies the elaboration: "The United States has agreed to loan Spain five destroyers, four ocean minesweepers, two submarines, three landing ships, an ammunition ship and an oiler, Navy Minister Admiral Alfonso Baturone said yesterday...
...I resented the "your"—but cannot disclaim responsibility for that eventuality until I have at least tried to keep it from happening...
...The abbot "bad resisted repeated calls by the Government to evict the demonstrators...
...I mean, if you're just interested in preserving the epistolary form...
...Since the entire exchange concerned an erroneous reference to Mr...
...And I remember how my prophetic Barcelona friend looked at me when I asked that naive question: what were the prospects of overthrowing the dictatorship...
...Only American and non-Communist resistance there, as in Europe and in the Near East, will have averted World War III and will have made this possible...
...The weight of world opinion persuaded Franco to commute the Basque death sentences...
...Howe, like many socialists, raises the differences to the level of principle, thus overlooking the underlying identity: —that the enemy is the same, to wit, Communist expansion(a la Brezhnev or Mao), —and that therefore the problem is the same in principle, although, of course, it will differ in practice for each case...
...In defense of a democratic state...
...dents...
...Remember the arms embargo against Loyalist Spain...
...Gonick argues that between 1960 and 1967 $1 billion profit in excess of what Canada gets in the form of capital imports was sent by Canadian subsidiaries and affiliates to their parent companies...
...We cannot have forgotten how that embargo first threw the Spanish people into the clutches of the Russian commissars and then turned the country over to Fascism...
...Need the Spanish admirals say any more succinctly that these 16 U.S...
...After all, the sum of this collection isn't worth one good paragraph by Whitaker Chambers or DaltonTrumbo...
...Howe refuses to answer this vital question "in a phrase...
...Aid was refused by the U.S.—and France and England —while the opposing forces got help aplenty from their fellow-Fascists, Germany and Italy...
...What prevented him from publishing it in the very next issue after Ihad brought the facts to his attention...
...It does not help this debate to have the issues obscured by incorrect statements in your journal...
...Some changes could be made relatively easily, which would benefit both women and men, including those women who for many years have been part of the academic world, usually on the margins...
...But why do I consider U.S...
...At the latest point available to me, 1967, U.S...
...n Imperialism in Canada Editor: Henry Pachter, in his article "The Problem ofImperialism" (DISSENT, September–October 1970), states in a footnote on pp...
...In 1970 the present Spanish government requested armaments-16 battleships—to maintain itself in power and quell possible revolt...
...3) "How far are you prepared to go in defense of Israel...
...Either Draper did notbother to check that issue (the next one published after my last letter to him) before turning over toyou the files of our correspondence, or else he didnot believe that I had misunderstood his interest and that I was quite willing to fullfill my initialassurance to him, or both...
...Is this inserted to logically exclude the right of survival of non-democratic states (such as Vietnam, for example...
...The minute anything starts your battleships will be waiting in our harbors to suppress it...
...2) "Are Israel and Vietnam the same or different in principle...
...Grauman has now decided to add insult to injury...
...He does not bother to explainwhy he needed so much urging and so much timeto publish a simple retraction...
...Pokrant has quoted...
...investments in Canada mounted to $18.1 billion, Canadian investment in the U.S...
...In jagged mountains 40 miles from Barcelona stands the famous old Benedictine monastery of Montserrat...
...Grauman is bluffing again...
...Manufacturing: 60 46 Petroleum & Natural Gas: 74 62 Mining and Smelting: 59 52 Railways: Utilities: 2 4 2 4 TOTAL: 34 27 Thus, not only is much of Canadian industry inforeign hands, 80 percent of that control is American...
Vol. 18 • April 1971 • No. 2
