The Week

• Unaccustomed asheisto speaking up for hardline anti-Communism abroad, Hubert Humphrey nevertheless is doing very well in his speeches. And, unaccustomed as they are to applauding it, National Student Association delegates are doing just as well. The unlikely scene took place at Madison, Wis., where, while 42 pickets from the Committee to End the War in Vietnam screamed “Peace now!,” 1,000 delegates rewarded the Vice President with a standing ovation when he said: “The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously,” and, “I can promise you, we do not intend to just leave [Vietnam].” Said the delegates: “Rip ’em up, tear ’em up, give ’em hell, Hubert!” We are glad to second the motion. Go it, Hubert.

• “The white power structure has failed America— and so has the black leadership establishment. Guilty! Guilty! Guilty! They are both guilty!” Jackie Robinson, whose outburst this is (courtesy of the New York Herald Tribune’s editorial page), is very good at laying on the blame for the Watts district mess. Here are some of the guiltiest things: Goldwaterism, rats, high rents, bad schools, unemployment, the governor of California, the mayor of Los Angeles, the police chief of Los Angeles, Preposition 14, state and local government, lousy politicians, the lying press, white-skinned TV, white-skinned TV commercials, sopping the Negroes with a few top jobs, the white society not knowing that violence begets violence, the black society not willing to “face the fact that there was no victory, only defeat, for black and white people, for the American dream of life, lib—” and that’s the end of the column. Now, Jackie, about that black leadership establishment ….

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• Unaccustomed asheisto speaking up for hardline anti-Communism abroad, Hubert Humphrey nevertheless is doing very well in his speeches. And, unaccustomed as they are to applauding it, National Student Association delegates are doing just as well. The unlikely scene took place at Madison, Wis., where, while 42 pickets from the Committee to End the War in Vietnam screamed “Peace now!,” 1,000 delegates rewarded the Vice President with a standing ovation when he said: “The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously,” and, “I can promise you, we do not intend to just leave [Vietnam].” Said the delegates: “Rip ’em up, tear ’em up, give ’em hell, Hubert!” We are glad to second the motion. Go it, Hubert.

• “The white power structure has failed America— and so has the black leadership establishment. Guilty! Guilty! Guilty! They are both guilty!” Jackie Robinson, whose outburst this is (courtesy of the New York Herald Tribune’s editorial page), is very good at laying on the blame for the Watts district mess. Here are some of the guiltiest things: Goldwaterism, rats, high rents, bad schools, unemployment, the governor of California, the mayor of Los Angeles, the police chief of Los Angeles, Preposition 14, state and local government, lousy politicians, the lying press, white-skinned TV, white-skinned TV commercials, sopping the Negroes with a few top jobs, the white society not knowing that violence begets violence, the black society not willing to “face the fact that there was no victory, only defeat, for black and white people, for the American dream of life, lib—” and that’s the end of the column. Now, Jackie, about that black leadership establishment ….