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Charlie Brown has known for years that Lucy could be hateful, but, simple soul that he is, never suspected the awful truth, that she is in fact a fascist. But now that Unita, the Italian Communist Party’s daily, has unmasked Lucy’s fascistic tendencies, Charlie Brown is absolutely trembling in his sneakers. He knows that the radical Right “is every bit as dangerous to America” as the radical Left.

The Joint Chiefs of Staff don’t get much chance to air their views in these days of McNamara’s Ban, but the Senate Special Preparedness Subcommittee gave them a forum last week on the subject of a nuclear test-ban treaty. The Chiefs unanimously oppose a treaty on the lines the President has indicated; such an agreement, they feel, would not provide adequate protection against Russian cheating. The Chiefs’ attitude will reinforce Senate opposition to any deal Averell Harriman brings home from Moscow (see “From Washington Straight,” this issue, p. 52, and “On the Right,” p. 51).

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Charlie Brown has known for years that Lucy could be hateful, but, simple soul that he is, never suspected the awful truth, that she is in fact a fascist. But now that Unita, the Italian Communist Party’s daily, has unmasked Lucy’s fascistic tendencies, Charlie Brown is absolutely trembling in his sneakers. He knows that the radical Right “is every bit as dangerous to America” as the radical Left.

The Joint Chiefs of Staff don’t get much chance to air their views in these days of McNamara’s Ban, but the Senate Special Preparedness Subcommittee gave them a forum last week on the subject of a nuclear test-ban treaty. The Chiefs unanimously oppose a treaty on the lines the President has indicated; such an agreement, they feel, would not provide adequate protection against Russian cheating. The Chiefs’ attitude will reinforce Senate opposition to any deal Averell Harriman brings home from Moscow (see “From Washington Straight,” this issue, p. 52, and “On the Right,” p. 51).