European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 26, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes Pago t fear of ideas again spurred treachery again the Mlan. Their capacity for rut. V Trach by. Happen win a 0rou� of re . By Foar. 2t their Empire u being Throop is by id of Frt Tom an when they do not have to reckon a any organi Iod Pinion hat would express Tho better impulses inside the or own despair about the future. Of the whole International Ytem. Con Sider the fact that the russians Hove been Ablo to got away with what they did and that no one to had the Power will or moral authority to Stop Thorn. In 136, a he time of a similar rope of Hungary Thoro wot some question of America info vening. Today the is Nono America is entangled militarily and weakened morally by Tho vietnamese War. The United nation is powerless whatever it May say for window dressing Franco is preoccupied with its into mat troubles Britain is Para Lyned by bankruptcy the asian african bloc it dismally silent. In the 12 year since the Hun Garian crisis after to Many Hope for a measure of world conscience and Law and after the most dramatic change in me fabric of people s lives Mankind has achieved no order in the Jungle of International energies. The occupation of Czechoslovakia accents the plight of Europe. Prague has All along been a testing Point for the Lack of collective will in Europe. In 1938 the Munich agreement gave the sudetenland to Hitler at the expense of the czechs marking a final Point in the paralysis of Western Europe in the face of nazi expansionism. In 1948 the takeover of Czechoslovakia by the communists marked a turn ing Point in the paralysis of Eastern Europe in the face of soviet expansionism. Now in 1968, daunted by the Specter of a meeting of i nth and ways of life Between West Ern and Eastern Europe the so Viets have drowned with arms what they have been unable to overcome by threats. In their cynicism the russians have scarcely bothered to contrive More than a transparent lie for the invasion and occupation the lie that they were invited by government and party what Spur them to this quite simply fear. At the time of the Cierna conference i expressed my deep scepticism about whether the russians would stay out of Czecho Slovakia. I regret that the scepticism Tuandt confirmed. It was based on the conviction that the one thing the russians cannot tolerate is the image of a communist regime moving toward democratic freedoms and serving As an example to the other communist nations to do the same. The czech themselves were doubtless unwise in greeting Ulbricht so glumly and Tito and Ceausescu so gleefully it Only rubbed in More bitterly the Les son of their seeming Triumph Over soviet Power. But even if the czech people had been the soul of restraint and discretion the soviet and East German and polish and bulgarian and Hun Garian divisions would still have marched. For the soviet Empire itself despite its seeming strength is a fragile Structure indeed if it can not survive the example of Sim ple press and radio freedoms and the beginnings of a Competition of idea. All the Little so Viet satrap the Ulbricht Gomulka and the rest Are right to tremble in the party boots. They have seen Banquo s ghost at their table the spec Ter of the Freedom they have murdered coming Back to pro claim their own end. One cannot know How far off that is but the soviet rulers and their proconsul in the other capitals have underestimated the Cost of their military Victory. Whatever the character of a new czech regime the anguish of the people sobbing on the streets of Prague will leave its effect on people from East Berlin to mos cow even if it has Little Impact As yet on the preoccupied new left in America and Western Europe. C 1966, los Angl time tailored View of demos. _ _. _ m m a _ Henry j. Taylor while most of the delegates Here Are mugging to or bargain ing around with the Small scale transcendent Genius of an Al Gerian Rug Salesman son. Eugene j. Mccarthy is cluttering up the strategy like Napoleon Wheeling his battalions away from the Channel ports and Smil ing Tho Foo at Austerlitz and Jena. Yet a Les Napoleon like Man is hardly con c e i v a b i o. Ca sual reflective mercurial and bleached of Tho least Peck of self importance he to such a various mix of a Man that you wonder what had shaped him in the first place and then kept him in any steady direction at All. Nevertheless propelled by his obvious sincerity Mccarthy is the biggest disrupter of Tho proves Lional scene since Lindbergh con founded aviation. Democratic National chairman John m. Bailey caught in Tho crossfire of Mccarthy s High noon with huh it courageously staying where the bullets Are thickest which is under the am munition Wagon. Tho Bailey Bat he cry to committee colleagues seems to be ready aim Don t fire convention Host and traditionally powerful Chicago mayor Richard j. Daley in turn usually of Calm and reassuring As an undulating Bank of votary candles in on ancient Church wanders among the delegates like a bewildered boy who hat lost his balloon. The new York tammany Hall null agent in turn although Brave shows Tho professionals Foth Only in numbers. Now York Secretary of state John p. Lom no officially certified on March 24, 1968 that Tho re pub ton party a the state gained jj.w6 enrolled members in to l the Ocra in party lost3,�04. House speaker John w. Mccormack who once ruled that in j non or. In Tho osmium of Bil Ujj Vulor Barty Situa Tion is setting the stage for it in november. U e so. I s Nixon blast is Hogwash the american civil liberties Union Acle of new Jersey has once again criticized Richard Nixon for belonging to a Golf club which it claims does not have jewish or negro members. Executive director Stephen Nagler called upon the gop presidential candidate to Spon Sor 10 negroes and 10 jews for membership. This he said could help in combating discrimination in that a Nixon aide observed. It appears that Thi group i just trying to or up trouble to a its name in the but what makes the Acle position irresponsible is the fact that the organization Long a Nona Ilsan group interested solely in civil i Bornios appears to have san glad out for condemnation ignoring la fact that other political figures Are members of so called restricted organizations. Thus last july when it developed that or. Nixon was a member of the Baltusrol Golf club the new Jersey Acle affiliate was Quick to excoriate Nixon As making a mockery of the fight against discrimination in new Jersey and throughout the United then it turned out that Nixon s rival for the gop nomination gov. Nelson Rockefeller was a member of seven or eight restricted clubs in new York and Washington. But there was not a Woid of protest out of Nagler or the reason according to Nagler is that none of the clubs wort located in new but no statement criticizing Rockefeller emanated from the new York or Washington chapters of the Acle. The National office said it would not care to com ment As to the reasons Why. Moreover the Acle has never looked info the club affiliations of either sen. Eugene Mccarthy or vice president Hubert Humphrey. It was pointed out to the Acle that a cursory Check Dis closed that Mccarthy is a Mem Ber of the congressional country club and the Loyal order of Moose. Incidentally that great civil libertarian chief Justice Earl Warren is Al of a member of the Whites Only Moose a Well As of half a dozen California clubs which Don t permit jew a members As for Humphrey the vice president is affiliated with the town club the Chevy Chase club the Columbia coun try club and burning tree All of which Are restricted one Way or the other. Yet no one has called those worthies to task. The question of what clubs they belong to has already been termed the same old Hogwash by the respected new York negro weekly Amsterdam news. And we say this is a lot of Hogwash because it does Noth ing but Decloud the real issues that we should be concerning ourselves with these Candi dates in this Case men seek ing to become rhe president of the United states. Let us con Cern ourselves with More important or. Nagler and Thacla please copy
