THE PEOPLE'S FORUM
THE PEOPLE'S FORUM 'Muted Dove' Dear Sirs: Lately, liberal magazines (The Progressive included) have been replete with reproach regarding Vice President Hubert Humphrey's relinquishment of...
...What we, as a nation, are really doing is vividly underscored in a news story...
...THE PEOPLE'S FORUM 'Muted Dove' Dear Sirs: Lately, liberal magazines (The Progressive included) have been replete with reproach regarding Vice President Hubert Humphrey's relinquishment of his role as the standard bearer of Americans for Democratic Action...
...August, 1964...
...Arnold Serwer's articles are proving as intriguing and stimulating as Milton Mayer's...
...This alone should be sufficient reason for saving the entire Grand Canyon, from Lee's Ferry to Grand Wash Cliffs...
...CURTIS ALLAN CLEVELAND St...
...This group includes Governor John Love of Colorado, Governor Mark Hatfield of Oregon, Governor John Chafee of Rhode Island, and Governor Dan Evans of Washington...
...His premise in "Claude Eatherly's Dark Star" (August Progressive) is that Eatherly is "a person [whol embodies much of the anguish and crisis of his times in the accidents of his own life," and his whole case is directed accordingly...
...If you care to prevent the destruc tion of one of the world's natural wonders, please write at once to your Congressmen and Senators, as well as to Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall, letting them know you are opposed to any dams in the Grand Canyon...
...A Vietnamese teacher, watching a U.S...
...Although our nation has asked the United Nations to use its influence to bring about peace, we have repeatedly ignored the proposals of Secretary-General U Thant toward this end...
...This feeling relates to your editorial fixation with the Vietnam issue...
...ABRAHAM VIRDEH Novato, California Dugger le d Astray' Dear Sirs: Ronnie Dugger's liberal sensibility has for once led him astray...
...The phrase has been bandied about liberal circles with the implication that the Vice President has capitulated to the forces of anti-intellectualism and antiliberalism in America...
...These governors have initiated and pushed reforms and programs to meet the needs of the people in their states...
...We have The Progressive from June, 1960 to the present (except July, 1960...
...I protest at this infringement on my rights to talk to Albanians if I choose and re quest that you append to my passport ap plication my simple refusal to allow the Department of State to dictate to me whom I may, or may not, visit while I live abroad...
...I am humored by the mid dling cliches you have exhumed to plead both cases...
...You might consider the revolutionary idea of permitting an article from the opposing camp...
...and June through November, 1965) which we will be glad to send to anyone who will pay shipping costs...
...Rabid liberals who are writing their cogent analytical essays from the safety of their ivory towers, dissecting Humphrey's public conduct, hurt the cause of liberalism rather than help it...
...Unfortunately, the total Grand Canyon is only partially protected by monument and park boundaries, which stand to be violated if the Bureau of Reclamation has its way...
...You almost say it, but not quite...
...September, 1963...
...To right only one of the false impressions which may result from Dugger's "Hiroshima Postscript": It is true that "qualified psychiatrists . . . certified that Eatherly was one hundred per cent mentally disabled by service-connected illness...
...Your attitude is annoyingly diplomatic...
...Such generalizations, I believe, are shallow and unbecoming to those who consider themselves liberal, intellectual, and thinking people...
...RICHARD A. GARVER Nairobi, Kenya Dear Sirs: It has been wonderful to receive your valuable and courageous magazine out here in the middle of the "dark continent," even though the issues arrive two months late...
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...The third doctor (Samuel H. Ross) disagreed categorically: "Claude Eatherly is capable of very little emotional response to any problem...
...However, your publication is far superior to Time and Life and similar ilk...
...Has Dugger considered that Eatherly would have been crucified had he reported anything but good weather over Hiroshima that morning...
...You attack the chauvinistic Administration ten levels above the rudi ments...
...Personally, I would rather have a "muted dove" still in there, and still pecking at the tail of the hawk, rather than a thousand doves showing their expertise from the distance...
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...AND MRS...
...Your approach smacks of a political commissar shrieking over and over the same trite slogans...
...Give us a break...
...It's a depressingly bad case...
...William Bradford Huie in his 1963 book, The Hiroshima Pilot, gave a decent burial to many of the Eatherly chimeras...
...But no thinking man with Eatherly's role would have been thus affected...
...Dugger's Eatherly, though, who scouted the Hiroshima weather, is "a responsible officer with a significant discretionary role in selecting Hiroshima as the target for extermination...
...serviceman toss candy on the cobblestones for scrambling Vietnamese children, said, 'You are making beggars of our children, prostitutes of our women, and Communists of our men!' "Therefore, we urge that American ac tions be brought into harmony with what are professed to be American aims...
...One of the progressives, with a record and a program, will emerge as the nominee...
...I cannot, on principle, allow you to deny me abroad the freedom of contacts and speech which I would enjoy at home under the Constitution...
...The Hiroshima Pilot, however, includes in detail the research which bankrupted Eatherly's fabricated status as a symbol of mass guilt...
...For exampie "1...
...It is my impression, as an American surgeon and mission doctor with over a quarter of a millenium of family history in America as his family background, and after careful perusal of our Constitution, that the right to freedom of speech, free dom of contact and discussion—even po litical discussion—is embodied in this de mocracy of ours as part of the original concept of a free society...
...For you, therefore, to issue me a pass port which denies me the freedom to have speech, if I choose, with Chinese, Albanians, or anyone else, is a straight forward denial of the right to free speech...
...foreign policy and its true motives is harnessed...
...It may surprise you people in the editorial office, but we out here in the hinterlands do occasionally think...
...DR...
...and that they believed he suffered from guilt feelings about Hiroshima...
...Two psychiatrists, of a group of three treating Eatherly, so certified...
...DENISE M. CAREY Boston, Massachusetts Deterrent Dear Sirs: We would like to endorse the sentiments expressed in your lead editorial ("U Thant's Path to Peace") in the August issue...
...The water-short Southwest can be as sisted without these wasteful, unnecessary dams...
...Building of the Great Society in America does not seem to be compatible with expending two billion dollars per month toward destruction in Vietnam...
...What happened to Hubert...
...Dugger implies that Huie is disqualified by bias...
...The facts remain clear (consider Humphrey's stand on the airlines strike, his fight for the air bombing pause) that the Vice President has not abdicated his ideals, and there is justification for the premise that he still remains a vociferous proponent of rationality within the innermost circes of our government...
...In the May, 1966, Congressional hearings, Floyd Dominy, Commissioner of Reclamation and chief defender of the dams, admitted the CAP could be constructed without financing from dams in Grand Canyon...
...In fact, I fear that you are driving away regular readers and many potential subscribers with the waspish manner in which you are discussing Vietnam...
...Believe me, you have made your point...
...ARTHUR CURRIER, Clerk Palo Alto Meeting The Religious Society of Friends Palo Alto, California Passport Protest Dear Sirs: The following excerpts are from a let ter I sent to Secretary of State Dean Rusk: "I have just examined my new passport, recently received from our consulate in Aden, and note that you have stated it is 'Not valid for travel to or in Albania, China, North Korea, and North Vietnam/ with the implication, first, that the De partment of State has the extra-territorial jurisdiction over Americans abroad that such implied prohibition of travel implies, and, second, that a visit to any of these countries would violate American law...
...He stated: "This would be contrary to long-standing reclamation policy, but if it were done, you could theoretically do it and actually have a small remaining surplus of about $100 million...
...If President Johnson can be deterred at all from his present headlong course, his deter rent may be the hard evidence of votes for those candidates who support peace in Vietnam...
...DEAN AND JOAN EWING Albuquerque, New Mexico Pro and Con from Kenya Dear Sirs: As a long-time reader of The Progressive dating back to my graduate student days at the University of Wisconsin, I feel com pelled to express my current disappoint ment and boredom with the magazine...
...Vietnam policy...
...More power to both of them...
...He has no moral feelings toward his wife or children or toward any human being that he meets...
...The training of soldiers—young men under twenty-one—in the use of guns, bombs, and napalm seems inconsistent with the expectation that they will later become law-abiding citizens...
...Quoted in The Hiroshima Pilot) I hope that no one will be content with this brutal compression of the issues without having read at least Huie's book and Burning Conscience, Gunther Anders' edition of his correspondence with Claude Eatherly...
...MARTIN BROEKHUYSEN Department of Mathematics Dartmouth College Hanover, New Hampshire Electable Republicans Dear Sirs: James A. Wechsler in his August article, "Reagan, Romney, and Republicanism," overlooked many of the electable, youthful, problem-oriented, progressive Republican governors...
...Paul, Minnesota Actions and Aims Dear Sirs: The Palo Alto Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends has sent the following communication to President Johnson and the members of Congress: "We, as citizens of the United States and members of the Palo Alto Religious Society of Friends, commend the Administration's statement that no path toward peace will remain unexplored, but we find ourselves profoundly troubled by contradictions that daily become more apparent...
...The irreplaceable grandeur of this priceless natural treasure was set aside by law to be preserved unimpaired for the enjoyment of all future generations...
...For example, Governor Hatfield—before national legislation was enacted—accomplished medical care for the aged, antipollution control and enforcement, civil rights legislation in personal accommodations, an area beautification program, a consumer advisory committee, and a state scholarship commission...
...is a phrase meant to decry the role of the Vice President in the perpetual fight between "us" and "them...
...FRED H. RICHARDS American Mission Hospital Muscat, Oman Save Grand Canyon Dear Sirs: Such necessary attention is focused on international crises that many citizens may be unaware of a bill before Congress, HR 4671, which provides for two dams in the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River...
...I disagree with Mr...
...EMMET HAYES 3092 Bluett Road Ann Arbor, Michigan...
...he supports this claim only with outrageously abbreviated quotations from Huie's work...
...The truth is not "anyone's guess" if we have done our homework...
...The Bureau's justification on the basis of power production revenues to pay for the Central Arizona Project (CAP) has been put in a dubious light by the testimony of the Bureau's own chief...
...So you don't approve of the U.S...
...In essence they are the "chicken-doves" who scattered like flies in the wake of the first onslaught by the "hawks...
...Let me be clear: It would be profoundly appropriate and believable if someone with real discretionary responsibility for the atomic bombings had, since 1945, reacted as Claude Eatherly is alleged to have reacted...
...He is incapable of feeling responsibility or loyalty or moral obligation of any sort to any individual or group of individuals...
...L. A. TAYLOR Maragoli, Kenya Faint Praise Dear Sirs: Your articles are strained...
...Your criticism of U.S...
...I need hardly point out that no free country, to my knowledge, attempts to so restrict its citizens' freedom to travel—centainly none in Western Europe with which I am familiar...
...Dugger, stranded without facts, can manage only the simplistic disclaimer that "the truth is anyone's guess" and one ought to "try rather for fairness...
...Wechsler's implication that the 1968 GOP standard bearer will be a prototype of Barry Goldwater...
Vol. 30 • October 1966 • No. 10
