Editorial
EDITORIAL Eyeless in Gaza A Fortune editorial once noted that the world crisis could swiftly be resolved by a democratic revolution in Russia, but that, for this to happen, a revolution in...
...Since there seems little will in Washington to change the regulations, the net result of the decision is to scar Oppenheimer for life before an amazed world...
...Oppenheimer was ruled a security risk principally because he lacked "enthusiasm'' for the H-bomb...
...Therefore, it seems to us that nothing would be more tragic than to have this earnest humanitarian return without personally inspecting the Soviet institutions which we call slave-labor camps, which the Kremlin calls "corrective-labor camps...
...Such defective policies cannot be charged to lack of intelligence (which respects neither party nor class), or to a fundamental disorientation of our people as a whole...
...Gray and Morgan attempted another verdict: that the Administration simply not renew Oppenheimer's contract, on the straight political ground that he held dissenting opinions...
...Roosevelt, as a leader in UN Human Rights activities, should formally request permission to visit the famed gold mines at Kolyma and the coal mines at Vorkuta...
...What she says on her return will be weighed seriously throughout the world...
...EDITORIAL Eyeless in Gaza A Fortune editorial once noted that the world crisis could swiftly be resolved by a democratic revolution in Russia, but that, for this to happen, a revolution in Washington would first be required to supplant business-as-usual with a new democratic militancy...
...Should the Kremlin deny Mrs...
...This insight helps explain the strange year that has now passed since the momentous Czech and East German workers' revolts...
...It is a bitter fact that McCarthyism scored its greatest triumph just when the Senator himself was tumbling into national disgrace...
...Not only have these Eastern people's movements been denied the vital support which a dynamic democracy should have extended...
...and which Mr...
...but the crucial middle grounds between democracy and Communism are in greater peril than ever...
...Yet, Dr...
...Wallace was led to call "pioneer settlements...
...The security-madness which McCarthy representsthe fight against people, rather than ideas...
...her appraisal of these camps could tell the world much...
...Oppenheimer was judged a loyal American by the special board that heard his case...
...If any individual can be said to reflect the will of our people, it is the President...
...Eisenhower's three addresses did reflect the best conscience of the American people...
...In Indo-China, the march of the Vietminh columns is being met with everything but the one force that could stop it: a Vietnamese people's movement for freedom and independence with the active support of the United Nations...
...the two-man majority also had high praise for his discretion...
...Gray and Morgan were told to rule on "security" only...
...Travel Advice Eleanor Roosevelt will shortly tour Russia for Look magazine...
...tension is the order of the day in the Middle East...
...Scrupulously observing the regulations prescribed, they branded Oppenheimer, then politely criticized the regulations...
...unfortunately, they seem to have little relation to the policies pursued by his administration...
...For want of democratic political and social action, France, Italy, Japan and even West Germany are more vulnerable to totalitarianism...
...she is the first important American to be admitted since the wartime Wallace and Willkie trips...
...the substitution of mechanical criteria for justice, mercy and good sease...
...Or is democracy the type of vine that only springs from healthy roots...
...McCarthy is losing, but McCarthyism has martyred J. Robert Oppenheimer...
...and his three masterful speeches (one last April, one last December, the third at Columbia a few days ago) comprise a dynamic democratic creed on which an affirmative policy could be based...
...Did not the Korean armistice help provoke the Indo-China crisis...
...Our question for the first anniversary of the German workers' revolt is this: Is a government which can do this to Robert Oppenheimer intrinsically capable of revivifying democracy in the free world and inspiring democratic revolution behind the Iron Curtain...
...To be sure, Messrs...
...Captain of the scientists who released atomic energy, respected throughout the scientific world, praised repeatedly by Vice President Nixon and other Government leaders, Dr...
...But this traditional method of resolving policy differences did not satisfy the Administration: Messrs...
...the will to purge and destroy, rather than persuade or create...
...Traditional Republican isolationism and budget-balancing are part of the answer...
...Roosevelt's request, that, loo, would be an important political fact...
...Latin America and Africa are more troubled...
...The fact is that there is no overall strategy...
...Washington's various formulas to meet the global threat are (1) treaties, (2) money, (3) arms shipments, and (4) in extremis, air and sea war coupled with dark hints of atomic bombing...
...the herding of diverse human beings, by means of false amalgams, into rigid categoriesthis pervasive McCarthyism has, like all totalitarian trends, infected even its supposed foes...
...Yet, the clearest manifestation of the disease that afflicts Washington is what, for want of a better term, is called McCarthyisma deus ex machina view of history and politics which far transcends the Wisconsin Senator...
...so is the enfeeblement of the Democrats in their tread-mill defense of past failures...
...Certainly Mrs...
...Why this vast and tragic gulf between purpose and policy...
Vol. 37 • June 1954 • No. 24
