Dear Editor
Dear Editor Mihajlovich Quite clearly, The New Leader has performed a great public service in printing Mihajlo Mihajlov's "The Mihajlovich Tragedy" (NL, February 3). but I found the article...
...On one, we have all of those who reap huge profits from rising prices-stock holders in Standard Oil, Union Carbide, International Tel and Tel, Dow Chemical, General Motors, Chase Manhattan, United Fruit...
...As Will Rogers said: "Anyone who thinks the human race has made progress is an egotist...
...But the raggedies threw together a loose confederation of outcasts, and their rallying cries were "No taxation without representation" and "Don't tread on me...
...In 1967, it formed an association with the Manchester Guardian, which now prints pieces by Le Monde staffers, and together with its new partner publishes weekly similar to Le Monde Diplomatique...
...In any case, the practice of citing My Lai continues, and just a few days ago a Vietnamese quoted the killing to me as proof of American savagery admitted by the great Parisian daily...
...The varsity team was owned and managed by George III...
...One could read on the front page of its second issue an article entitled "L'Anglais, langue de l'Imperialisme...
...After all, the rest of us are strictly bush league, the "schmucks in Peoria," as H. R. Haldeman used to call us, the raggedies in the outback...
...in favor of revolutions such as the Bolshevik takeover of 1917, or attempted revolutions such as that of May 1968 in Paris...
...Tom Billings Professor of Education Western Washington State College 'Le Monde' It was an unexpected pleasure to see in your "Dear Editor" pages of December 23 John Rehfisch's letter stating that the Parisian daily Le Monde was pro-Communist and that a booklet printed in 1971 by La Pensee Universelle, called Le journal 'le monde' et le marxistne, had already said as much...
...and for radical Third World countries-Algeria, Iraq, Syria-against even French interests...
...Such "facts" are normally ascribed to "the observers'" or to an anonymous "high official" somewhere...
...Of course, in the United States, England, Germany, Switzerland, Holland, and even Belgium, the rule of thumb is to separate news from comments and editorials...
...Bellingham, Wash...
...The chief editor of that journal is Claude Julien, who wrote the rabidly anti-American L'empire americain...
...My question is: In the big national game of Inflation and Depression, which team is Mr...
...Brussels Dr...
...The Chetnik hero's end was unquestionably sad and needlessly brutal, yet the tragedy for the Yugoslavian people may have been that at that time there was no democratic middle ground for them to stand on...
...Philadelphia Morris Labkoff Thoughts on the Game Perhaps Gerald Ford's problems with Congress (Walter R. Gordon, "Flexing Muscles on the Hill," NL, February 3), not to mention the plight of the nation, are reflected in his choice of a slogan for his Administration...
...Even the French language is distorted for propaganda purposes...
...Furthermore, for the French-speaking elites of major parts of Europe, Latin America, Africa, and the Orient, it represents the best, most abundant and most diversified source of news available...
...In a letter to the paper, I drew attention to this and quoted a number of instances reported in Le Monde itself of similar atrocities with more victims -perpetrated by French, North Vietnamese, Algerian, Nigerian, Indian, Pakistani, and German officers who had never been dismissed or court-martialed...
...One might also argue (though I myself would not venture this far) that had the paper taken a consistently neutral stand on the events it reported, Gaullism would have a different face at present and Western Europe would today be united...
...Moreover, Mihajlovich's story reminded me once again of the agonizing complexity of Eastern European politics during that period, and I, for one, cannot honestly say that I would have felt a greater degree of comfort supporting a royalist general in his battle against the Nazis than I would have felt supporting the Communist partisan Tito...
...This is really an important matter because Le Monde is the newspaper for educated Frenchmen, with more influence in France than the New York Times in America or the London Times in Great Britain...
...Ford coaching...
...No more...
...Have we forgotten our history...
...When the actual news story is ?? Communist assault on a Vietnamese town, the headline runs: THE NORTH VIETNAMESE ACCUSE THE U.S...
...The glimpses it offered of Winston Churchill and other World War II leaders were wholly unlike what one is accustomed to reading about these men in Western books and newspapers...
...In the great game of Inflation and Depression (known, too, as Boom and Bust), the varsity team almost always wins...
...Just WIN...
...troops killed civilians...
...I can't think of a better way to celebrate our second centennial than by recalling the teams on the field in 1776 and the game they were playing...
...has written that it is impossible for a newspaper to be objective, and wrong to expect it to be...
...And it has expanded abroad at a time when a number of independent dailies are closing down or feeling compelled to merge...
...Well, I'm for that, yet it seems to me we ought to examine this rallying cry...
...That's who he wants to WIN...
...He did not even try to discuss facts, but kept repeating, parrotlike, statements about imperialism, the sinister plans of Rockefeller, Ford, Kissinger, and also about the triumph of "the people...
...but I found the article fascinating for itself, apart from any role it may have in publicizing the plight of dissidents living within Communist countries...
...Astonishingly, they seemed not to know about the booklet mentioned by your reader...
...George Washington coached the raggedies, the bush league in 1776...
...A. Barlovatz...
...Occasionally, items are purposely omitted...
...I also suspect that he takes his orders from the owners...
...I have always found the paper heavily biased against the United States and its allies, like Israel...
...After several reminders, the editors finally answered me, stating that naturally I had the right to consider them pro-Communist, but that I was the only person ever to have uttered such a ridiculous idea, and, besides, it was my "opinion" against the "opinion of their half-million readers...
...It currently receives government subsidies, as do most French periodicals...
...As the President explained, this is an acronym for Whip Inflation Now...
...President Ford has played enough football to know when somebody wins, somebody loses...
...Unfortunately, most readers never notice the distortions...
...On the other sit the rest of us, never having had the inclination or the wherewithal to buy stock and never having been paid enough to get on the varsity team...
...The sides are surely clear...
...Indeed, one of the owners sits only a heartbeat away...
...Le Monde started life in 1944 with the gift of an important collaborationist newspaper from Charles de Gaulle...
...Two different correspondents abroad wrote that there was danger of "a My Lai," rather than of a massacre, in order to make readers believe that only U.S...
...When will we "schmucks in Peoria" wake up...
...People around the world quote it as if it were the Bible...
...Watergate, NL, August 5...
...I should point out, too, that I recently attended a lecture given by one of Le Monde's columnists and questioned him directly about his publication...
...Quite recently, Le Monde threw off another shoot, a weekly devoted to education, with a stated circulation of 100.000...
...Thus the rift between Francophones and Anglophones is largely maintained by Le Monde...
...Now my guess is the President coaches the varsity team...
...Or was LBJ right about him...
...The lecture had been organized by a militant Maoist group of students and a few Leftist professors (among them, the well known Marxist Ernest Mandel) and the journalist delivered it as if it were a tedious duty...
...then, too, lean-Louis Servan-Schreiber, a former Le Monde editor and author of The Power to Inform (David Bernstein, "The Press After The New Leader welcomes comment and criticism on any of its features, but letters should not exceed 300 words...
...Like the editors, Jacques Fauvet and Andre Fontaine, Le Monde's correspondents and columnists must believe in the proletarian revolution and hope for its imminent arrival...
...I am persuaded that if we do whip inflation now, I'll win and a lot of my neighbors will win, but that somebody has to lose, and lose big...
...WIN, it says...
...AND THIEU OF VIOLATING THE PEACE AGREEMENT AND PROTEST STRONGLY...
...Moreover, they have the habit of adding to their stories bits of controversial information—e.g., "After the repeated defeats of the American Armed Forces, hawks Kissinger and Ford refrained at the last moment from ordering a new partial mobilization, sensing that they could not win anyway...
...Certainly there was no chance we would ever become team owners...
...In reality, that is, nothing happened...
...It was ripping off great profits at the expense of the colonies...
Vol. 58 • February 1975 • No. 4
