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Dear Editor Supreme Court In his excellent discussion of "The Making of Supreme Court Justices" (NL, May 25), Alexander M. Bickel refers to the "extraordinary expedient" proposed in 1874 to avoid...
...In view of his scholarly expertise, though, I was amazed at the inept development of his argument...
...In the latter case, that debator went so far as to quote mit professor and anti-Vietnam radical Noam Chomsky on the Middle East...
...however, I take issue with him...
...Califano lapsed into an apology for the old liberal line of government control, higher taxes, and wage-price controls...
...Have they nothing but a sophisticated sneer for those naive enough to look for meaning in existence...
...I fail to see why Gershman cannot detect the isolationist mood behind the suicidal positions they are being asked to take in secret (and some public) contacts...
...1. I do not regard unification of Germany as a realistic aim of Western policy, and I do not believe that Chancellor Brandt so regards it...
...Indianapolis, Ind...
...Are they themselves victims of academic nihilism...
...doves on Israel are identical to those of doves on Vietnam, and the same kind of strategic suicide is being asked of Israel that has been asked of Saigon...
...The power of the President to nominate and the Senate to confirm is, in the case of the Chief Justice, not merely to select someone outside the Court...
...In his endeavor, Gershman perverts the very meaning of the term "hawk...
...If any museum is hiding in its storerooms the Civil War-inspired an the Met did not show, we would all love to know about it...
...Wadhwst, Sussex, Eng...
...Dear Editor Supreme Court In his excellent discussion of "The Making of Supreme Court Justices" (NL, May 25), Alexander M. Bickel refers to the "extraordinary expedient" proposed in 1874 to avoid the political difficulties involved in acting on a certain nomination to the Chief Justiceship: that the Chief Justice be chosen by the Associate Justices from among their own number...
...The purposes of the "opening to the East" are: first, reduction of the danger of an East-West war, of which Gcimany would be the first victim...
...Califano quotes a professor: "'We have destroyed as myths the political, moral, and religious doctrines of Western civilization, and we have failed to provide any substitute...
...This is essentially the psychologist's advice to ease an anxiety through distraction...
...From that point on...
...Our genial teacher, undisturbed by this nonsense, umpired the discussion with strict neutrality...
...proceeding to urge that the Establishment dispel the students' alienation by involving them in meaningful actions to solve social problems...
...writes in "Youth Confronts the System" iNL...
...Emerson...
...The Vietnam doves doom Israel by creating an isolationist climate in our country...
...2. I do not believe that "the Russians are momentarily planning an assault on Western Europe...
...Now, in more private conversations, some bring up the same issue, injecting U.S...
...But I do not go along with his indictment of the Metropolitan Museum of Art for failing "to indicate that the crucial national event of the century was the Civil War...
...After enumerating nine common elements of student "disenchantment" and rebellion around the world, Califano discussed certain dissimilarities in the foreign student movement vis-a-vis the United States...
...Indeed, his own exposition was merely a "crisis management" of youth's present loss of direction...
...The best guarantee of Israel's survival resided in our country's adherence to the concept of collective security that the U.S...
...I disagree with Gaines' assumption that the main purpose of Bonn's Eastern policy is economic...
...third, to bring about some relaxation of the East German regime...
...It is clear that Brandt hopes to achieve the latter improvement largely by inducing the Soviet Union and Poland to bring pressure to bear upon Walter Ulbricht and his clique...
...Trotsky or Marcuse rather than Jefferson, Lincoln or de Tocqueville...
...second, moie security for West Berlin...
...What is hawkish about a harmless appeal by 73 senators to sell a few war planes to Israel????when the U. S. is selling yearly $2.5 billion worth of military hardware to everyone on demand...
...Besides, a close scrutiny of these so-called L"hawks on Israel" will disclose that many of them have influential Jewish constituencies, whom they were trying to please without having the slightest intention of advocating active (hawkish) participation in Israel's defense...
...Unless I am terribly mistaken, the Civil War simply elicited no appreciable artistic response, with The New Leader welcomes comment and criticism on any of its features, but letters should not exceed 300 words...
...On the basis of the premises he presented, J find no justification for his suggestion of greater involvement for young people...
...Their battle cry, "No More Vietnams," was the first nail driven into Israel's coffin...
...In this respect, a dovish position on Vietnam and a hawkish one on Israel are irreconcilable...
...As examples I offer comparison of the Friends Service Committee "studies" on Vietnam and the Middle East, and the arguments recently presented by the anti-Israel side on the net-tv program The Advocates...
...Extraordinary this proposal may indeed have been as a purely political expedient...
...Washington, D.C...
...yet it is precisely the "crisis of belief" and its causes which must be rectified before any substantive results can be seen in the future...
...J\.J, George F. Ackerman Crisis of Belief Joseph A. Califano Jr...
...As the argument went, who are we to judge whether our "morality" is superior to theirs, which might be perfectly appropriate to their manner of life...
...I found his analysis astute, especially his discussion of the conspiratorial approach to student unrest...
...2. The main impetus against Vietnam came when certain financial sectors deemed it detrimental to their advancement?Vietnam is wrecking our economy...
...Thus every Associate Justice ambitious of such promotion (and it is believed on good evidence that there have been more than a few) must be under the temptation, when a controversial issue is before the Court, to consider how his vote will be regarded by the President and the senators...
...Hamburg...
...One does not know, but one may wonder, whether Abe Fortas, while an Associate Justice, would so willingly have performed political chores for President Johnson had not the prospect of promotion to the Chief Justiceship dangled before him...
...the possible exception of Winslow Homer (and it cannot be seriously argued that his Civil War illustrations represent anything near his best work...
...For West Germany, export to the East, which must be largely based on credit, is prevailingly a tool to establish or undershore political relations...
...applied in Korea and in Vietnam...
...Needless to say, on both issues the man holds no authority...
...Michael Joelson In his discussion of Israel and Vietnam, Carl Gershman overlooked some ominous developments...
...June 8), "we must recognize that young Americans are experiencing a profound crisis of belief...
...Lewis Mayers Israel and Vietnam In his article "Israel and Vietnam" (NL, June 22), Carl Gershman makes a strong effort????but carves out a weak case????to prove that a dovish attitude on Vietnam is not inconsistent with a hawkish attitude on Israel...
...The most important matter he described was left awkwardly at the threshold...
...Test in Germany," (NL, June 8), it would appear that Clement Gaines has misunderstood two points on which 1 had hoped to be sufficiently clear...
...Since America has had so much to do with the existence and predicaments of the two nations, in the past never hesitating to intervene in their internal affairs...
...That this goal is not a sham invention of professional red-baiters, but an alarming reality, has been clearly demonstrated by the plight of Israel...
...oil interests in the Middle East in discussions of their cases against Israel...
...But on its merits, the only thing at all unusual about the proposal (which requires only a statutory, not constitutional change to effectuate) is that its potential value has received so little attention...
...The battle between the hawks and doves is a battle for the resolve of the American people to come to the aid of a small country threatened by a stronger aggressor...
...A withdrawal of American troops from Germany, however, would remove the certainty that the Soviets can never attack Western Europe without getting into a war with the United States, and the loss of this certainty would in my opinion make Germans and ether Europeans vulnerable to psychological pressure from Moscow...
...How true...
...it is also the power to elevate one of the sitting Justices (a power actually exercised for Justices White and Stone...
...However, he lets his insight hang in mid-air...
...Philadelphia...
...Social action seems to be Califano's recommendation for a replacement????in effect, get involved in the troubles of others and forget your own...
...Some members of the Court, notably Justice Roberts, have recognized that a Justice should not be subject to this temptation?that he should be beyond hope of reward just as fully as he is beyond fear of reprisal...
...Why do those who say they understand "youth" duck the philosophical questions alienated students ask...
...After focusing on the attitude most prevalent among young people????A "crisis of be-licf????he summarily dropped it...
...The possibility of trade expansion with the East is limited because the Soviet bloc countries do not have enough goods to offer that are saleable in the West...
...In my senior high-school English class last year, some students maintained in a discussion of Conrad's Heart of Darkness that we should not presume to condemn the torture practiced by the natives...
...1. The arguments of U.S...
...Nicholas Liwchak Joseph A. Califano Jr.'s "Youth Confronts the System" was a most intriguing article...
...Califano recognizes that many of the college rebels are distressed by the philosophical agnosticism of their professors...
...Germany Carl Landauer...
...Unless one is clear on the meaning of life, what is the point cf helping others to live better lives devoid of ultimate purpose...
...He failed to answer the most haunting question he raked, "why so many bright young people turn to Mao...
...Kirk Wells German Test From his letter ("Dear Editor," NL, June 22) concerning my article, "U.S...
...If anything, his discussion dramatized exactly why students should not be placed in positions of responsibility...
...New York City Daniel E. Teodoru Centennial Show Overall, I liked James Mellow's "Centennial Kitsch" (NL, June 22...
...Wrongly equating it with McCarthyism, the Vietnam doves discredited the old liberal anti-Communism, which had the merit of singling out the tactics of Communist powers in their march toward world domination...
Vol. 53 • July 1970 • No. 15
