Dear Editor
DEAR EDITOR VIETNAM Most of us can take a perverse pleasure in i. Milton Sacks' use of quotations from Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. as resident presidential intellectual to argue against Schlesinger as...
...These majorities are, however, the accomplices by sentiment of their unelected governments...
...New York City Laszlo T. KlSS...
...It is as fair to try to make a case for Vietnam being vital to American interests as it is to try to establish that it is an inconsequential pawn...
...One can try to make a case for American involvement in terms of strategic interests or even on grounds that what will happen to the Vietnamese people under the Viet Cong will be worse than what we are doing to them now...
...N L. April 24) called attention to the grave problem of Hungarian minorities ("specifically in Rumania and Czechoslovakia") in an area where even the majorities have lost Western liberal support?since the detente became the unconditional vogue????for their fundamental rights to freedom and self-government...
...Boston Martin Leichtman EAST EUROPEAN MINORITIES Professor Borsody's excellent review of Eastern Europe In Transition ("Breaking Away From Moscow...
...What I find repugnant in Sacks' review are the last lines he slips in about the Vietnam debate finding ". . . its ultimate resolution in the future as a consequence of the sacrifice that brave Americans are making in the defense of South Vietnamese freedom...
...Nor can Sacks be faulted for playing the game of geopolitics with Schlesinger...
...In addition to being a low blow in the game he has chosen, that argument can only debase our thought and language...
...May 8...
...But to use the term "freedom" in connection with any of the Vietnamese governments we have supported in the past decade is to erode what meaning that idea has left for us and to help obscure the reality of The New Leader welcomes comment and criticism on any of its features, but letters should not exceed 300 words...
...They approve the policy of assimilation toward their former, historic adversaries ????who 10 years ago, with their resented, traditional vitality, made such an enormous effort to be free, an effort from which all the East European nations have benefited...
...Beneath the East-West dialogues, these Hungarian minorities are still victims of a twofold imperialism: the old and the new...
...as resident presidential intellectual to argue against Schlesinger as "disengaged" intellectual ("Containment in the Polycentrist Sixties," NL...
...That's one of the hazards historians expose themselves to in becoming public figures...
...the large role we are playing in the destruction of that unfortunate people...
...Would some????either in the old or the new left- -find energy and time to protest...
Vol. 50 • May 1967 • No. 11
