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...
...Unless an author's name is appended, the material was editorial comment...
...Hypocrisy strikes The Great Powers, expressing shock and dismay at first over the war hysteria and then over the war itself that swept through the Middle East, were guilty of massive hypocrisy...
...it was their Westernization and their ability to succeed, and it is this that affronts and infuriates and drives the Arabs...
...April 22, 1911...
...Very likely it will be charged that the teakettle boiled dry while they were up to this business...
...Norman Thomas, April 1948 Outside the kitchen The new women voters in Washington have "meddled" again in politics and defeated a bill in their State Legislature that would have legalized prize fighting...
...For it was they who had raced each other to provide the arms, without which a military confrontation would have been impossible...
...July 1967 Arab pride What the Jews brought to Israel that was offensive to the Arabs was not their Jewishness...
...February 1957 Oil and blood It should be a solemn principle that we Americans shall not pay for oil in blood...
...Georgie Ann Geyer, April 1972 Product of Gold War The conflict in the Middle East is indivisible from the rest of the Cold War...
...the problems of that area which sometimes seem so insoluble could in fact be resolved reasonably and promptly if the Soviet Union and the United States would stand together before the United Nations in support of a negotiated settlement...
Vol. 43 • July 1979 • No. 7
