Dear Editor
DEAR EDITOR LIVELY CORPSE DEPARTMENT Simon Lazarus' article ("End of the Warren Court", NL, January 16) was certainly written with great eclat for an autopsy report. Before you could say habeas...
...Englishmen, Russians, Frenchmen, and German non-Jews paid less...
...will come to resemble those nations of Europe that had popular movements against Jews...
...The essential ideology????that Africa would now claim its share of the world's destiny????remained unchallenged...
...It was its length that explains the rise of Communists in Russia, Fascists in Italy, and Nazis in Germany...
...The real danger to our nation is not from the followers of Gus Hall or George Lincoln Rockwell...
...Such misplaced patriotism and religious sentiment were acted out on a large stage in Germany during World War II...
...But then the major powers tired of spending immense sums on African self-esteem and apparently decided to call a de facto halt to their competition...
...Although I do not question Lazarus' analysis of the importance of the Court's shift on demonstrations, it seems to me that Black has earned the benefit of the doubt from liberals and is likely to continue earning their gratitude...
...I am thinking especially of Jonathan Kwitny's fine article, "Nigeria in Focus" (NL, January 16...
...We have accumulated more wealth and a greater empire than any with less loss of life...
...I refer to the support German Catholics and Protestants gave to Hitler, in phrases that echo in the words of Billy Graham, Cardinal Spellman, and the Jewish War Veterans...
...Gold-water or Henry Wallace doing the same would have brought storms of protests, with Hubert Humphrey, Sidney Hook, Will Durant Will Herberg, and Norman Vincent Peale leading a parade down Fifth Avenue...
...we are all Germans now...
...The danger is from a way that would frustrate our lives...
...Germany could not have stayed in the war at all had it not been for the organizational talents of Walter Rathenau...
...Russia had its pogroms...
...is like Germany, Austria, Russia, and England in 1914????the defender of "weak peoples and invaded territory...
...God and History"* settled their accounts...
...We owe several million deaths...
...But the payment Thk Nkw LhADhR welcomes comment and criticism on any of its features, but letters should not exceed 300 words...
...The source of all our tragedies is World War I. It was not horrible because wicked or cruel men started it but because ordinary statesmen got into it and could not get out...
...James s C. White English Department Minneapolis School of Art...
...Commentary and THE NEW LEADER are willing to go along with this war...
...Donald Ravenal AFRICA The New Leader over the years has had consistently excellent coverage of Africa, but your recent articles on Nigeria have been among the finest of the lot...
...As I see it, only liberals heading our government could have gotten us into this big a mess...
...In the United States this has taken the form of "Black Power," but I believe that it has manifestations elsewhere, especially in the wide popularity of Franz Fannon's The Wretched of the Earth...
...One of the saddest chapters in the history of the Jews is the enthusiastic support the Jews of Germany and Austria gave to that nation during World War I. (A few Socialists and Marxists did not have this enthusiasm but they were an impotent minority...
...is not always collected immediutely...
...Santayana wrote...
...It is really rather odd to consider that only a few years ago Ghana was universally hailed as the avatar of a new African humanism, and that the major powers eagerly competed for Nkrumah's favor, on the premise that his brand of neutralism was the coming thing...
...Then, in 1960, when Nigeria became independent, one heard that Nigeria would be the embodiment of Africa's future...
...It is possible that in the next decades, the U.S...
...Why were German and Austrian Jews so patriotic...
...It pains me that many Jews, liberals, and Democrats connected with Freedom House...
...In any event, I wish to congratulate the New Leader on its fine reporting and offer my hope that future issues shall maintain the high standards of your recent material...
...They have learned little from observing the Christians of Germany who allowed themselves to be used by the Nazis because they shared the authoritarian, militaristic, and nationalistic values so skillfully exploited by the Nazi government...
...In the joint pastoral letter of the German Catholic hierarchy of June 26...
...My point is this: The patriotic Jews who supported Germany and Austria were throwing a boomerang that in less than 30 years returned to kill 6 million of them...
...1941, the faithful were told that "in the hard visitations which the war will bring you, you may be strengthened by the consoling certainty that you are not only serving your country but also fulfilling the Holy Will of God...
...England was similar until World War I. In coming to the defense of Belgium...
...At this moment the U.S...
...It is the bad judgment of good men rather than the sly plans of bad men that get us into trouble...
...The Jews paid more than their share of deaths for dabbling with arms and nationalism...
...and France had its Dreyfus case and its 20 anti-Semitic newspapers in the decades before 1914, Thus Germany and Austria appeared to be a paradise surrounded by active hostility to Jews...
...As we love our hopes, and detest the experience that seems to contradict them, we add fanaticism to our confusions...
...The bagatelles of the African ideologists were quickly exposed, first in Ghana, and now in Nigeria...
...Now the strongest endorsement by any religious group for the war in Vietnam comes from the United Jewish Conservative Synagogues of America...
...Washington, D.C...
...The Kaiser could say truthfully in September 1914, "We are no longer religions and classes...
...Minneapolis, Minn...
...I believe that scripture about "those who live by the sword shall perish by the sword...
...The pretentions of Nkrumah were of course quickly discredited...
...God and history are planning surprises for smug Americans...
...New York City George Ware FREEDOM AND VIETNAM Hans J. Morgenthau's "Freedom, Freedom House and Vietnam" (NL, January 2, 1967) was necessary, accurate, and useful...
...I find it strange that at the exact moment that Afrocentrism has been shattered, the world seems to be in for a new and even more fanciful round of it...
...Before you could say habeas corpus, however, the body slipped away, and mirabile dictu last Monday, there was Justice Hugo Black, a fully recuperated liberal, voting with a 5-4 majority to throw out New York's draconian security laws...
Vol. 50 • January 1967 • No. 3
