New York, Oct. 1—I do not believe the American couple who, landing in Miami, claim to have witnessed “four or five hundred” executions in the National Stadium at Santiago where many of the political prisoners have been herded by the junta. For one thing, the story (denied, by the way, as “baseless” by the generals) is inherently implausible. If the junta had decided on an Indonesian-style massacre, a) we’d have heard about it from other sources; b) the American couple would probably not have lived to tell the tale. For another, the lady and gentleman in question smell very much like lefties doing their professional duty. The professional duty of all lefties, the world over, is to say everything they can think to say to discredit the Chilean counterrevolutionaries. Their concern for the truth in maximizing the evil of counterrevolutionaries is no greater than their traditional concern for minimizing the evil of revolutionaries. To this day I have never heard of one leftwinger who has declined to shake the hand, if proffered, of Chou En-lai, or Mao Tse-tung, concerning whom it is not alleged that they executed four or five hundred people, but documented that they executed their countrymen by the millions.
One hopes for compassion in Chile, but there is a humanly plausible middle way between executing the political prisoners, and returning, them by private jets to Mexico City or Cuba there to receive ticker-tape parades. It is the goal of the international leftist community to make revolution absolutely safe. It is a wonder that they have not amended the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights so as to include this freedom, though perhaps the reason is that it would suffer the same fate as the other rights enumerated in that forlorn document.
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