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Sen. Thomas Dodd blistered Secretaries Rusk, McNamara and Connor last week for their public attack on Young Americans for Freedom. The Administration leaders said YAF was going “counter to U.S. foreign policy” when it attempted to dissuade certain tobacco companies from buying Yugoslav tobacco. Dodd pointed out that a buyer’s boycott is the right of any citizen. And by the way, what’s so sacrosanct about U.S. foreign policy, asked Dodd, that it shouldn’t be criticized? . . . What d’you know: In early October, 0. Edmund Clubb, one of the State Department Mao-is-an-agrarian-reformer clique of the late forties, came back into limelight as book reviewer for the Sunday Herald Tribune. Later that month (Oct. 24) he turned up as one of three featured speakers in NYC rally sponsored by Americans for Reappraisal of Far Eastern Policy (read it: Get US out of Vietnam ; get Red China into UN).

More card-tearing: Bertrand Russell last week publicly tore up his Labor Party card after 51 years of membership in protest against “government complacency over Vietnam atrocities.” . . . Got everyone buzzing, rumors that staid London Times plans to change its format, run news on its front page. … Another journalistic Shock-of-the- Month, George Lichtheim’s powerful attack on N.Y. Times (particularly its foreign coverage) in Sept. Commentary.

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Sen. Thomas Dodd blistered Secretaries Rusk, McNamara and Connor last week for their public attack on Young Americans for Freedom. The Administration leaders said YAF was going “counter to U.S. foreign policy” when it attempted to dissuade certain tobacco companies from buying Yugoslav tobacco. Dodd pointed out that a buyer’s boycott is the right of any citizen. And by the way, what’s so sacrosanct about U.S. foreign policy, asked Dodd, that it shouldn’t be criticized? . . . What d’you know: In early October, 0. Edmund Clubb, one of the State Department Mao-is-an-agrarian-reformer clique of the late forties, came back into limelight as book reviewer for the Sunday Herald Tribune. Later that month (Oct. 24) he turned up as one of three featured speakers in NYC rally sponsored by Americans for Reappraisal of Far Eastern Policy (read it: Get US out of Vietnam ; get Red China into UN).

More card-tearing: Bertrand Russell last week publicly tore up his Labor Party card after 51 years of membership in protest against “government complacency over Vietnam atrocities.” . . . Got everyone buzzing, rumors that staid London Times plans to change its format, run news on its front page. … Another journalistic Shock-of-the- Month, George Lichtheim’s powerful attack on N.Y. Times (particularly its foreign coverage) in Sept. Commentary.