Our former colleague and continuing contributor, Mr. Brent Bozell, is running for the Republican congressional nomination in one of the hottest races in the country. There presumes to live in the same congressional district with Mr. Bozell a Republican so Liberal that he ranked 175th (out of 177) in leftward irregularity as a member of Congress during the last session. Only Congressmen John Lindsay and Seymour Halpern have voted more often with the Democrats than Mr. Charles Mathias, whose efforts have won him the explicit endorsement of Nelson Rockefeller. Mr. Bozell, whose close association with Senator Goldwater is well-known, is running on a platform that stresses a) local government and voluntary as distinguished from compulsory integration; b) the necessity to prosecute vigorously the Cold War against the Communists; and c) the need for a constitutional amendment to restore the right of the public schools to incorporate voluntary prayer into their daily proceedings. Mr. Mathias has of course denounced Mr. Bozell as an extremist, but so far has declined the opportunity to show him up as such in public debate, it being rather widely known that only men who veer to extreme recklessness enter into public debate with Mr. Bozell. The odds, of course, are always with the incumbent, but the urbane Mr. Mathias is much shaken by the action of the Republican majority on the Montgomery County Council, representing over one-half the voters in the district, who have declared for Bozell on the grounds that they would prefer to be represented by a Republican who votes like a Republican, and are happy to have the opportunity to advance a candidate of Mr. Bozell’s quality. The race is being watched like a hawk by the hawk-eyed Washington Post, which writes about the entry of Mr. Bozell into politics as though it had suddenly seen Birnam Wood moving towards Dunsinane… If you desire to become involved in this important and exhilarating campaign, write or wire bozell for congress, 8110 Wisconsin Avenue, Bethesda, Maryland. Primary Day is May 19.
We welcome enthusiastically the formation of the Conservative Book Club, under the direction of Mr. Neil McCaffrey, a gentleman with whom the editors and publisher of national review have had many dealings, professional and personal, for almost as many years as national review is old. The venture is not fly-by-night, but profoundly conceived, and meticulously organized: and has as its object, of course, an increase in the circulation of good literature—both fiction and non-fiction. The Consultants of the Club include James Burnham, John Chamberlain, General Mark Clark, John Dos Passos, Henry Hazlitt, James Jackson Kilpatrick, Russell Kirk, Sir Arnold Lunn, Frank Meyer, Ralph de Toledano, and Ernest van den Haag, to mention only a few. Books will be offered to members at Mad Man Muntz discounts, ranging from 20 to 50 per cent. For details, write to the Conservative Book Club, 542 Main Street, New Rochelle, New York.
Comments