On the Right

New York, May 16—In due course the policymakers will thrash out their platforms. They will he high on rhetoric, and low on content, if their predecessors are any guide. Herewith an attempt, in three parts, to suggest a few conservatives insights into public problems, in the vainglorious hope that they will catch the eye if not of the platform writers, perhaps of the incidental voter and opinion-maker whom the platform writers are supposed to please . . .

Vietnam. The great effort there has been worthwhile. The GOP pledges not to panic. Disavow any agreement reached in Paris which commits South Vietnam to effective rule by the Vietcong, although of course any succeeding GOP Administration will be pledged to carry out the terms of any treaty executed during the summer. Existing situations too fluid to permit specific recommendations. What is needed is general reaffirmation of the strategic analysis that warranted our helping South Vietnam in the first instance.

New York, May 16—In due course the policymakers will thrash out their platforms. They will he high on rhetoric, and low on content, if their predecessors are any guide. Herewith an attempt, in three parts, to suggest a few conservatives insights into public problems, in the vainglorious hope that they will catch the eye if not of the platform writers, perhaps of the incidental voter and opinion-maker whom the platform writers are supposed to please . . .

Vietnam. The great effort there has been worthwhile. The GOP pledges not to panic. Disavow any agreement reached in Paris which commits South Vietnam to effective rule by the Vietcong, although of course any succeeding GOP Administration will be pledged to carry out the terms of any treaty executed during the summer. Existing situations too fluid to permit specific recommendations. What is needed is general reaffirmation of the strategic analysis that warranted our helping South Vietnam in the first instance.