THE WAY WE SAW IT
THE WAY WE SAW IT The following are excerpts from articles and editorials published by The Progressive since its founding on January 9, 1909. They have been edited only to achieve brevity. Unless...
...January 1969 Before Biko We cannot, as a people who love freedom, allow the Afrikaners to turn South Africa into a vast concentration camp that tramples upon the rights of a helpless people...
...Don Peretz, February 1956 White House credibility The much discussed "credibility gap in the White House" is a gentlemanly way of suggesting the President is lying...
...The apparent eagerness of the United States to cater to its clients in Saigon — who have every interest in prolonging the peace talks and the war — makes it especially important to Senate critics of the war to keep up the pressure for a swift settlement...
...Janet Lowenthal, October 1975 Twisting and toppling This country has grown wealthy on importing primary products cheap and exporting high...
...It was from the beginning impossible to establish a Jewish homeland without raising the problem of a new Jewish state, and it was always certain that the creation in a populated land, however backwards, of a new Jewish state would greatly stimulate Arab nationalism...
...April 1967...
...William Tabb, November 1975 The liberals' obligation In foreign affairs, the immediate and urgent task of the genuine liberals will be to press for a prompt liquidation of the disastrous American adventure in Vietnam...
...It will twist arms and topple governments to preserve this arrangement as long as it can...
...Norman Thomas, April 1948 A knotty dispute In contemporary world affairs only our struggle with the Russians has spawned so many knotty issues as the Arab-Israel dispute...
...Unless an author's name is appended, the material was editorial comment...
...George Shepherd Jr., June I960 Breeding nationalism Nationalism breeds nationalism...
...Worth protecting The environment is too important to leave in the hands of DuPont...
Vol. 43 • June 1979 • No. 6
