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j BRUCE BIOSSAT
How Really Enlightened,
Flexible Are Left-Wingers?
By BRUCE BIOSSAT
Washington Correspondent
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
WASHINGTON (NEA)
One of the great myths of this age is that the doctrinaire
Right is rigid and slogan-ridden in its thinking but the doc
trinaire Left is marvelously enlightened, flexible and sea
. soned in its judgments.
There is no question about the rigidity on the radical
Right. The main thought structure is a thing of steel beams.
; New ideas are twisted to fit this frame. Deviation is unac
i. ceptable and defeat of the cause is impossible.
' As someone said of the Eyptians after the Middle East war:
' In Egypt there are no defeats, there are only conspiracies
' which prevent them from winning.
• But it is pure illusion that those on the left are any better.
For all their intellectual pretensions, they are as uncompro
i mising and as thoroughly committed to shallow slogans and
‘‘vogue thinking” as their rightist counterparts.
They pin the label “reactionary” on unconforming thought
just as swiftly as rightist slap the brand of “Communist” on
i views they dislike.
In some ways their stance is far worse than that held by
! their rivals at the other end of the spectrum. For they offer
i nonthinking in the name of thought. They are greatly in
! genious at spinning words to give rational color to outrage
ously emotional judgments. Without conscience, they raid
history to warp its materials to their purpose of the moment.
When Indonesia thwarted a Communist coup in late 1965,
the vogue-thinkers on the Left saw a grand opportunity to
, make points for their argument that we should not be “med
dling” in Vietnam.
For a while there, to tune in any of these thinkers was to
hear this argument almost by rote:
“Look what’s happening in Indonesia. That shows that if
i we just leave these people alone, they can handle their Com
munist threat without help from us.”
That argument is now out of fashion, and a good thing.
Embarrassing also to the partisans of the Left was the
I evidence that between 250,000 and 500,000 Indonesians were
j killed in a terrible exercise in revenge. It exploded another
favorite bit of vogue thinking—that Americans, but no
others, hold Asian life cheaply.
The truth, easy at hand and developed by this reporter in
a documented account many months ago, is that no one holds
Asian life more cheaply than do Asians themselves. Their
self-slaughter in recent decades is beyond imagination.
Many of the Left speak of elections and the political pro
cess in Vietnam as if they were talking of sophisticated
voting precincts in Manhattan. Their lexicon is loaded with
notions of “social revolution,” “civil war,” “the Geneva
agreements,” “liberations” and the like which have little
relation to the very special, hard realities of Vietnam.
They like to argue that rightist are unresponsive to people
while they, on the Left, are their supreme champions. The
evidence is that their “championing” is so constricted and
myopic an undertaking that it leaves out of real account
many millions in Asia and elsewhere who have rather dif
ferent notions about how to achieve independence safety
and well-being. The vogue-thinkers are no help to them
Governor Names
Crime Commission
ATLANTA (UPD— Gov. Les-1
ter Maddox named a 31 mem-1
ber commission Wednesday to : i
I formulate policy for fighting I 1
crime in Georgia.
Commission members Include i
state department heads, judges,
solicitors, professors, religious '
leaders, and legislators.
They are: Gov. Lester Mad
dox, Corrections Director Asa
Kelley, Public Safety Director
R. H. Burson, Pardons and Pa
roles Board member J. O. Par- ,
tain Jr. Atty. Gen. Arthur Bol
ton, Adj. Gen. George Hearn, (
Georgia Bureau of Investiga- ;
tion chief Barney Ragsdale, (
State Health Director Dr. John
Venable, Director of Children
and Youth Jim Parham.
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Thursday, July 20, 1967
State School Supt. Jack Nix,
Judge John E. Frankum of the
Georgia Supreme Court, Fulton
Superior Court Judge Charles
Wofford, Judge Robert Hall of
the Court of Apppeals, Rep. Tom
Murphy, Sen. Frame Coggin,
Sen. Horace Ward, Capt. Lu
ther F. Butler (of the Georgia
Peace Officer’s Assoc.), Solici
tor Kenneth Goolsby (of the So
licitor’s General Assoc.).
Bruce R. Jacob of Emory ,
Law School, John F. T. Murray
of the University of Georgia
Law School, Dean James C.
Quarles of the Mercer Law
School, Mayor James V. Davis
of Albany (of the Georgia
Municipal Assoc.), Gilmer Coun
ty Commissioner Harold Heffer
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missioners), Atlanta attorney
Frank Schackelford, President
Wiley H. Montague of the state
AFL-CIO, Conrad J. Sechler of
Tucker, William B. Rogers Jr.
of Atlanta, W. J. Logan of
Savannah, Mrs. Jack T. May of
Athens, the Rev. R. Donald
Kiernan of Atlanta and John P.
Culver of Atlanta.
Pope’s Title
Temporal title of the Pope is
Sovereign of the State of Vati
can City. Formerly it was Sov
ereign of the Temporal Domains
' of the Holy Roman Church.
World Briefs
GERMAN VISIT
WASHINGTON (UPI) —West
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Kiesinger will visit Washington
Aug. 15-16 for conferences with
President Johnson and other top
U.S. officials.
The Bonn government’s re
cent proposal for a cutback in :
German military forces in
Europe is expected to be a
prime topic of discussion at the
conferences. The United States ;
has urged that no unilateral ;
reduction be made without
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consultation with NATO.
EVACUATE AMERICANS
WASHINGTON (UPI) —The
United States will evacuate al!
of the 150 American officials
still in the rebellious eastern
region of Nigeria.
In an announcement Tuesday,
the State Department noted that
about 600 U.S. private citizens
still in the breakaway state of
Bia fra were ordered to leave
during the weekend. i
INCREASED DEAF-BLIND
WASHINGTON (UPI) —
Health Secretary John W.
Gardner says that the nation •
must prepare for a sharp
increase in the number of deaf- i
blind children of school-age "in j
the near future.”
Gardners told a House sub- 1
committee Tuesday that the i
expectation was based on the i
periodic epidemics of rubella, or ]
German measles, that hit the j
nation from 1963 to 1965. He
said unborn children of preg- i
nant women who contract the 1
disease are frequently affected
by deafness and blindness.
LOST THEIR BUTTONS
MOSCOW (UPI) — Little
things like buttons and bolts are
snagging Soviet industry, the
government newspaper Izvestia
reported today.
The paper said several
factory owners complained
shortages of these and other
minor items was holding up
production of many consumer
goods.
A Ukranian dress factory
manager said he hasn’t got the
buttons to finish up his dresses
and production of sofa-beds was 1
held up by a lack of bolts. “We |
have to send couriers to i
Moscow to run them (the bolts)
down,” the. furniture-maker
said.
MEET EISENHOWER
WASHINGTON (UPI) —The :
house GOP task force on the :
western alliance will meet with <
former President Dwight D. (
Eisenhower this week to discuss
the problems of NATO.
Rep. Paul Findley, R-111., task 1
force chairman, said the 1
breakfast conference would be i
held Friday in the office the
general maintains at Gettysburg
College near his farm.
WELL PREPARED
VIENNA (UPl)—Police today
said a 26-year-old Hungarian
mechanic used a homemade
mine detector to cross the
Communist border into Ausria
over the weekend.
They said the refugee ex
plained he wore a steel helmet
and safety goggles in case his
device did not work. It did.