Dear Editor
Dear Editor Poland's Past Donald R. Shanor should be congratulated for supplying us with a very balanced picture of the present crisis in Poland ("Tipping the Scales in Poland." NL, January 11)....
...Although no editorial policy has been set, it appears that articles critical of U.S...
...Information Service, two Ecuadorians, and two volunteers...
...1969), I am apprehensive about further public comments...
...More important, as people of the Third World, Ecuadorians are interested in what dissenting Americans have to say about how Vietnam and the U.S...
...It should be able to face criticism of those policies...
...Nixon won the election...
...The board will be composed of the Peace Corps country director, the embassy director of the U.S...
...Wallace do...
...I believe it is a mistake to continue our search for strong, responsible "liberal" programs...
...Stanley Stein Department of Political Science University of Puerto Rico Liberals and Populists After my "exchange" with Bayard Rustin and Pat Moynihan a year ago in these pages ("Black Education and White Liberalism," NL, December 22...
...However, we have never printed anything criticizing host-country policies, and the Ecuadorian government has never registered a complaint...
...Indeed, geography and history have combined to set an exceedingly difficult task before the Poles...
...There is simply no tradition for such programs in the nation and there will be no response to them, except among academicians and intellectuals who have never voted anybody into office...
...2) What has been erroneously characterized as a "liberal tradition" was, in fact, a congeries of volatile, shifting folk-populist factions almost exclusively concerned with a larger slice of the economic pie...
...My own analysis of our "current malaise" and lack of "strong, responsible liberal programs" to overcome it is this: (1) There has never been a strong, responsible "liberal" tradition in this nation, Eastern seaboard rhetoric notwithstanding...
...Portland, Ore...
...The Cambodians are fiercely nationalistic and strongly support their government...
...Both urban and rural populists strive for about the same things, i.e., economic security and neighborhood respectability...
...Shanor has given us a sound diagnosis of Poland's current dilemma, but it should perhaps be noted that its roots date back to World War II...
...Unlike Vietnam, the Cambodian war is clearly not civil insurrection, but an attempt by foreign forces to take over the country...
...Our only hope for freedom of expression is to publish it with limited volunteer funds...
...It is said that certain articles were endangering Peace Corps' presence in Ecuador...
...Mass...
...While it is now generally agreed that many of our decisions in Vietnam turned out wrong, even though they were made with the best intentions...
...And so does Mr...
...Nixon and Mr...
...Bellingham, Wash...
...The right to choose articles for publication has been transferred from the editor to a six-man board...
...In the past...
...And if you add to this the generally uneasy domestic situation, aggravated by poor basic planning, the industrial slowdown and recent civil disorder are not suprising...
...After getting our fingers burned so badly in Vietnam, we are naturally anxious not to repeat past mistakes...
...Jeremy Earner...
...December 28...
...foreign policy will be prohibited...
...Peace Corps administrators have "castrated" El Ecuador...
...5) The Democratic party's "liberal" rhetoric in the '68 campaign implied support of programs and policies which were antithetical to the interests and values of most of the factions traditionally comprising the party's voting strength...
...Embassy--President Nixon's decision to enter Cambodia...
...El Ecuador has a distribution of about 2,000...
...is a warning for us not to be deceived by false parallels in history...
...It is sent to Ecuadorians, volunteers in this and other countries, and returned volunteers in the U.S...
...Volunteers are not officially part of the U.S...
...As a follow-up to Creesy's article, I thought your readers might be interested in knowing why...
...El Ecuador has been financed with government money...
...Cambridge...
...If the Democrats expect to regain national Executive power, they will search for leadership among urban populists and not among the great "complexifiers" of the "liberal" intelligentsia...
...David Reese Simon Reviewing the film WUSA ("Lean Years," NL, December 14), John Simon writes: "Robert Stone's A Hall of Mirrors, from which the novelist prepared his own screenplay, was a book whose praises were choired everywhere, yet it must have been as flashily and foolishly gesticulating a work as this film version...
...involvement abroad, but all that is about to end...
...What the Democratic party may need to (learn is that populists do not change their minds or values just because they change their place of residence...
...Because of that issue, and the general discomfort El Ecuador has caused the embassy here and Peace Corps/Washington, the magazine will now be censored...
...What might be worth searching for are strong, responsible rural and urban populist programs and candidates who would bring some credibility to their articulation...
...It would be sad to see an intimidated free world stand back and let them be overrun...
...Reagan...
...As I see it, my country has placed itself in a position to exploit Ecuador, both economically and politically...
...government...
...In our last issue, we published an article explaining volunteers' motives for publicly protesting--in front of the U.S...
...4) The affluence of the early '60s relaxed the economic passions of the folk-populist factions...
...To complicate matters further, a factional struggle developed within the Polish United Workers party between moderates and hardliners...
...Actually, the Communist leadership in Warsaw has been losing popular support ever since 1959, when Wladyslaw Gomulka began returning to key positions individuals who had been removed because of their participation in earlier Stalinist repressions...
...Abrams points out that the "decision to invade Cambodia . . . turned out to be an excellent tactical move, even though it was probably made for the wrong reasons...
...The apathy pervading the entire Peace Corps organization here will make that difficult...
...If they don't know this, Mr...
...The magazine has long been critical of Peace Corps policy and U.S...
...The View from Pnompenh," NL...
...J.L.] I think this is a remarkably careless and unfair conclusion, unless: (a) Simon has determined to what extent Stone's dialogue was actually used in the movie, or (b) Simon has bothered to read the book...
...The upshot: Wallace carried the hardcore folk...
...Peace Corps is becoming more rigid and more political all the time...
...However, at the risk of additional misunderstanding, I want to respond to your forthright but depressing "Between Issues" column of December 28," 1970...
...presence in Ecuador is affecting them- To silence such criticism...
...Humphrey carried the soul-weary, passionless Democratic party regulars...
...Italics mine...
...Yet the risk is just as great that our errors of commission there will lead us to equally tragic errors of omission in the case of Cambodia...
...And it now appears that the differences between the countries far outweigh the similarities...
...Guaranda, Ecuador Jerry Torske False Parallels Arnold Abrams' excellent summary of the situation in Cambodia...
...Thomas A. Billings Department of Education Western Washington State College Peace Corps Censorship I am the present editor of El Ecuador, the Peace Corps magazine formerly edited by your contributor, Charles Creesy ("Politics and the Peace Corps," NL, November 30...
...their life drives are economic, their strategies are short-range and potentially violent...
...Also included was an editorial that took some pot shots at America's political and economic presence in Ecuador...
...3) These factions cohere periodically under the rubric of the Democratic party, but would as quickly cohere under a cryptofascist banner...
...Cayey, PR...
...foreign service, but it seems their magazine is now considered an official organ of the U.S...
Vol. 54 • February 1971 • No. 3
