European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 04, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago 12 the stars and stripes saturday june 4, 1977 James Reston British deserve All the fun they can get 1 hold too to Clear it with the israelis Boft  had to Promise the palestinians a Homeland William f. Buckley we will go to London for the Queen Jubile we said and since there has been so much discord Over concorde we will Fly thai supersonic Bird and find out whether it was Worth All the fuss. Conclusion very expensive very convenient very steady very noisy but Worth it yes it was George Orwell who in one of his Many Liveris moods said the British Hadan infallible instinct for doing the wrong thing and that that the most stirring Battle poem in the English language was about a cavalry brigade that charged in the wrong direction but it seems a bit hard to blame them for this one spectacular Effort to Fly ahead of the rest of the Modem world. Out of the Washington Countryside at the order of ambassador Young everywhere they ask what do you think of Andrew Young lie is said to be a most engaging Man. Sowas Harvey the wonderful character who is always mistaking himself for a Rabbit and who was everybody s Best Friend. I will go to Sec Harvey As Long As James slew Art revives it on Broadway. Andrew Young is in the judgment of this observer somewhere Between an innocent and a Naif. Only an innocent could explain his apparent indifference to world communism by saying he never Felt threatened bit. 1 doubt he was Ever threatened by smallpox but would you like to think he would nevertheless react intelligently to a world  of course he is naive if he believes that a stabilization is what happens when soviet dominated troops enter a territory. This is True Only in the sense that you Cansay that the communists stabilized Czechoslovakia in 1mb, the nazis stabilized the sudetenland in 1939. And the Kun flux klan stabilized the South after the civil War. His Nigritude. Worn on his sleeve is no merely distracting. It is counter productive and racially offensive. The whole Pur pose of the civil rights movement in America is to bring on Equality. It is. To use the court s phrase intended to make the country color Blind. Andrew Young some times supposes himself to be the representative of the Black american Community indie United nations. He in t. Daniel Patrick Mounihan was t the representative of the Irish Community when lie served in the United nations. But Andrew Young who arrived in Africa giving the Black Power Salute identified himself not Only with american Blacks but with relatively Small segments of Ameri can Blacks. About As Many american Blacks give off the Black Power Salute Assing in minstrel shows moreover the rhetoric he used in Africa is straight out of theold song in was of the Black panthers. When you talk about the infant mortality ale when you talk about the presence of disease when you talk about malnutrition that is the result of systematic oppression and death dealings then you have to relate the violence of military situation. To the total violence of the situation. That was Young in Africa. Else where he found Idi Amin and Ian Smith similar which is the same As saying that Jan Smuts and papa Doc Duvalier were similar throughout his Lour. He was a Catherine s wheel of Black bom Bast suggesting Boycotts Here comparing Jimmy Carter to an Kanners there an Miu fing that in the United slates the racial climate was in some ways More brutal than in South Africa until recently he was. So to speak a acc s representative to Africa which is not what he was appointed to be nor what he is paid to  is both reassuring and alarming that. Under the circumstances he has become not a fighting word in America but some thing of a pet. A pet bulldog. National review a fortnight ago reproduced the first sentence in an editorial from the Newyork times ambassador Andrew Young announced in Michigan today that he would continue to speak out candidly. Under National review s own headline terrorist threat of the week " in Europe during january and february Andy Young got big headlines in the scary sections of the paper together with accompanying editorials of hushed and apprehensive Gravity All of which asked the same question does Andy Young represent the president of the United Suteso eventually the while House had tactfully disassociated itself from Young sufficiently to quiet this particular worry. The press Winlon to phase two in t it scan Dalous they would now say that the presi Dent has an ambassador who so regularly o that i were As great As kav6rief or lesser Wah my name or that i could for or what i have been or Root remember what i most be now Wing Richard i. Is an embarrassment to him and say things that clearly the president would not himself say but a scandal if it goes on and on becomes somehow less scandal Ous. And this is especially so in the current situation because or. Young is ambassador to an organization the is so morally inert in is hard to tease a scandal out of it the United nations a writer who serve there recently observed it was i is the most impacted institutionalized hypocrisy in the history of the world. Ostensibly dedicated to engaging human Freedom it is not Only silent but sycophantic towards those Powers that practice most diligently the repression of human Freedom. In this assessment of the United nations there is in creasing agreement from right to left. Andy Young becomes just Plain Harvey i virtue of the increased disposition of americans just Plain not to care what our ambassador to the United nations says about anything. Of pm a i half past noon Louch cd Down outside London three hours and 33 minutes later in time for a walk in the City and a Good night s  Jet lag no fuss no wait getting on or getting away. Lashings d caviar Wod wine and a filet the size of an official american league baseball. At first of seems a Little crowded like sitting in a Long Bright hotel lobby with Low ceiling Sand Light Little port Hole windows that almost obliterate the terrestrial world below. It is in Short an expense account plane for people in a hurry who Don t like to talk Fito one another. For its not the noise outside but the noise inside Hal slops All Normal conversation. Two extra hours in London these Days however arc Worth n lot. The old sooty buildings have been scrubbed in the Cen trial City. The place is ablaze with flags As if the British had just gained instead of Lostan Empire. The fancy hotels Are crowded at prices Hal Are bound to restore the nation s sagging balance of payments and while the National theater was closed be cause of a strike Over a plumber and two Wash basins the rest of London is a cos Lumo party. Sec is inflation running Al 17.5 per cent this year hard cheese old boy Well think Aboul that later will Scotland secede they be been talking Aboul that since the is Days of Robert the Bruce will Margaret Thatcher become Britan s first woman prime minister could l do worse than these bloody men is mrs. Thalcher sits in her new quarters fas conservative Leader in the House of commons blinking under the vast portrait of Winston Churchill and talking about the new Britain. Capitalism has t had a Chance in Brit Ain she says because the left Wing of the labor party was determined that it would t work. But later she predicts a tory government will gel the government sout of the housing business and the work \ Ere will have something to work for except taxes. Hats in Rainbow colors us if even marriage were making a comeback and Here an there some of the old Black London taxi cabs still the Best in the world have been painted a Bright Maroon there is still a lol of Obs Linale clinging to everything that s out of Date and a Nui Sance but Al least the monarchy is spared for the Lime being. The Queen has presided Here during the Hardi St 25 years in this Century and is still smiling her Way through crowds Al the Operand the  is Lem pled to say thai lord Acton was Only half right and that it is not Only Power but the absence of Power that Cor