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Senator George McGovern recently held extensive talks with Mr. Yasir Arafat of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Having witnessed the triumph of his policy in Southeast Asia, Senator McGovern is now turning his hand to the Middle East.

reflections on indochina: “Like the mass of the people, [Chamberlain] did not want to pay the price either of peace or of war. And public opinion was behind him all the while, in policies that were completely incompatible with one another. It was behind him when he went to Munich, when he tried to come to an understanding with Russia, when he gave the guarantee to Poland, when he honored it, and when he prosecuted the war half-heartedly. Only when the results of his policy became apparent did it turn against him; which is to say that it turned against its own lethargy of the past seven years. Thereupon the people picked a leader nearer to this mood, Churchill, who was at any rate able to grasp that wars are not won without fighting.”—George Orwell, “England Your England,” 1941.

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Senator George McGovern recently held extensive talks with Mr. Yasir Arafat of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Having witnessed the triumph of his policy in Southeast Asia, Senator McGovern is now turning his hand to the Middle East.

reflections on indochina: “Like the mass of the people, [Chamberlain] did not want to pay the price either of peace or of war. And public opinion was behind him all the while, in policies that were completely incompatible with one another. It was behind him when he went to Munich, when he tried to come to an understanding with Russia, when he gave the guarantee to Poland, when he honored it, and when he prosecuted the war half-heartedly. Only when the results of his policy became apparent did it turn against him; which is to say that it turned against its own lethargy of the past seven years. Thereupon the people picked a leader nearer to this mood, Churchill, who was at any rate able to grasp that wars are not won without fighting.”—George Orwell, “England Your England,” 1941.