The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 28 February 1967 — Page 4

4 Tht Daily Banner, Greencastla, Indiana Tuesday, February 28, 1967

National Window—Opinion

the point of view. One fact there was

By LYLE WILSON Just published under hard cover by Arlington House is "Hysteria 1964: The Fear Campaign Against Barry Goldwater." By Lionel Lokos, 208 pages, $4.00. Hysteria 1964 is written from the standpoint of a Goldwater partisan and may be faulted for partisanship. But the pages are crowded with quotations from

the unlovely hate-mongering, the reprehensible smearing and the indefensible journalism of misrepresentation suffered in 1964 by a good American citizen. Goldwater had presumed to seize Republican party leadership, if ever so briefly, from the moderate and left of center captains who had so ingloriously

led the party to disaster for many years. For example: Democratic Gqv. Edmund G. Brown contributed the statesmanlike observation that Goldwater’s acceptance speech had “the stench of fascism.” The NAACP’s Roy Wilkins contributed this: “Those who say that the doctrine of ultraconservatism offers no menace should remember that a man came out of the beer halls of Munich, and rallied the forces of rightism in Germany. All the same elements are these in San Francisco (Republican national convention city) now.” The AFL-CIO political arm,

COPE, passed this judgement: “A victorious Goldwater and his extremist supporters would speedily make life all but unbearable for working people, for the pqor.” Rep. James Roosevelt (DCal.) condemned Goldwater on charges of trying to reshape the Republican party “in the image of the John Birch Society” and into the pattern “of political parties in totalitarian states.” This was a basic theme of the campaign to create a hysteria of fear of Goldwater. Columnist Joseph Alsop contributed: “If Goldwater becomes president, the abolition of the Health, Ed-

ucation and Welfare Department is bound to be given serious consideration. But one can foresee that, pending the final decision, this department will be confined to the safe-and-sure hands of Robert Welch — provided he does not consider that heading the John Birch Society is a higher duty.” Alsop scored again on June 26, 1964, as follows: "Gov. William Scranton has run, head on, into the hard fact that stopping Barry Goldwater means changing the minds of Goldwater convention delegates whose minds are seldom accessible to reason, because so many of them are fanatics."

Author Lokos notes that: “A more rational anaylsis was made by Vermont Royster, writing in the Wall Street Journal: ‘Far from being the crackpots of the stereotype images, the supporters of Sen. Goldwater are mostly lawyers, doctors, small businessmen, farmers and white collar workers with a sprinkling of those from the more skilled labor groups. The secret of Sen. Goldwater, if that’s the word for it, is simply that he speaks for this somewhat amorphous middle class.’ ” Fascists? Fanatics? John Birchers? Insane men out to destroy? > It all depends, no doubt, on

has emerged from the 1964 hysteria. Nearly 27 million voters wanted Goldwater over Lyndon B. Johnson and the conservative movement in the United States did not die with the counting of Johnson's enormous majority. A fact which does not emerge from Lokos’ book is that Goldwater contributed to his own troubles by (a) talking too much, (b) a habit of imprecision in what he said, and (c) by seeming to invite trouble with audacious comment. Lokos also notes that one year after his defeat, Goldwater said: “Rockefeller and Scranton cut me up so bad

no way on God’s

green earth that we could have won. I knew it the day after

the convention.”

426th Warning TOKYO UPI — Communist China Monday issued its 426th “serious warning” to the United States, charging that two U.S. planes violated its territorial air space over the Tonkin Gulf. A New China News Agency broadcast said one plane was sighted Monday morning over Tung and Yunghsing Island# and another over Hainan.

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