THAT WAS YEAR THAT WAS

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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 29, 2000
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• Publication Date: December 26, 1972
• Content Type: NSPR

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That ~1 /( as Year c~
As a general rule, nothing happens during disappointed a) that international diplomacy
the last week of the year. It is as if nature her- continued on its chartered course; and b) that
self cooperated in the stillness of public affairs, theuNorth Vietnamese
so offensive was
ea opret. It
so as not to got in the way of the holiday's. n. If Sometimes it doesn't work: indeed, there are North Vietnamese rcontimueeto frail on theilreaNo r hVie - lill nefarious spirits who take advantage of our anir.st the south, the, may r
thei well wake up
preoccupation with the holidays.They used to one day and find they have lost the support of
say, in England a generation ago, that Neville one American liberals.
Chamberlain took his weekends in the country, a
while Adolf Hitler took his countries in the On athe n domestic front it was of course
weekend. election year. George McGovern
Andd.
And of course the rules do not now apply in was, really, the man of the year. It was a great
Cuba. There, puzzling over how to eliminate surprise that he woe the Democratic nomina-
the Christmas slow-down in harvesting the win- tion, but no one anticipated that he v. cold fight
ter sugar crop, Fidel Castro has figured it out: his way into the panes of American history as
He is eliminating Christmas. From now on principal sponsor of the greatest t:met in politi-
"Christmas" will be in mid-summer, after the cal history. Richard Nixon - Richard Nixon!
summer harvest. Castro tends to go in for - carrying every state of the Unian except
half-way measures. Why not declare that the Massachusetts. Nobody cc-,:id nave accom-
month of August will henceforward be called plashed that except George McGovern, and al-
December? ready the John Birch Soc.eLv has housed it out.
But mostly we can assume that the events Nixon, who of course is the tool of the Cont-
of the year are behind us. What were the big munists, has tools of his own. It uwas he who
ones? . contrived McGovern's nomination. Next time
' around, McGovern isn't go:nt: to play so easy
Well there was Vietnam. In the spring the r for the Republic: r.s. ails price will be
North Vietnamese launched a great offensive. pet
much higher. He is a proven pis pr ewill be
There have not been as many tanks mobilized all.
against a small country since Hitler marched
into the Lowlands. We had, apparently, no inti- The colleges were quieter, and the atmos-
mation, of the offensive, even as ten years ann phere generally irenic. True, the reactionaries
we had no intimation of the sudden appearance at Yale University did not permit General
Westmorcland to but they exhibited
of the Berlin Wall, though one would have
thought that such a stand-by accumulation of moderation, after all. i airy mieht have spirited
bricks and mortar would not have escaped the him away and shipped :am to North Vietnam,
J notice even of the CIA. A dozen years ago an overdue return :nr ail '.hose secret docu-
sotneone remarked that the weekend's attemt- ments we have tan front them over the
ed assassination of Sukarno had all the ear- years. Yale is slo-.+trg do,?n.
marks of a CIA operation: every one in the Oil yes. there xas ire Seth Annual Drought
room was killed except Sukarno. in tite Soviet feline !,ir.C I.x Boianevik Revulu-
Having survived the surprise, President tion. It brougtt en great food shortages except
Nixon ordered the blockading of Haiphong llar_ in othe fl"tie 0:5t:tcc to :ro:~ toeir u tiii vc le re
bor, and it was quite popularly supposed that P P' : st r. r,f rain were abundant.
this measure would lead to a cancellation of btec'S(m f; 10n t, try :ate lulu} parties, but
the Moscow visit, the indefinite postponement to t.n.? 'n rre.er.: t::?~ u
of the SALT talks, the appearance in indo- riot TIM M pace nnext yearr. That's what
China of Chinese troops, and at least a little the `tarp ~,s i .e d.alce _al Gertude.
world war. Critics of Mr. Nixon were gravely
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havior in potential governmental leaders.
(. I would like to kr :.?.v if Nikita Khrushchev has
ever seen the A1mer:cart vCrsion of his book, 1thrush-
ehev Remembers. I so, l het does he think of it?
Also are U.S. tourists permitted to brim into the
Soviet Union copies of ::hrushchev Remembers and
Dr. 7.hiva o? -Ifer` rt r+endall, Burlington, Vt.
. T`.';O copies of :>,1C11ey Rei7i `'ii7li er.) Were Gee
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livered to til i hr:: 1Ci '^-l' dacha outside I~:'^ LU'.'J
early in lanuaiy. i c,-,) r te.,iy Mr. 'K. was surprised and
delighted at the strt _turin ; of his reminiscences after
the book was traps a teat to him.
Accorc; Evstaflev, press attache of
-
in,; to
the Soviet Embassy in i.`:shington, D.C., "American
tourists are alloyed to L n; into the Soviet Union
any type Of p isor:::' ?Slnv Including copies of
Khrushchev r:c`rner:?'_r r: Dr. 7hivaga just so fang as
these books are no. ~'i~ .llinatad to Soviet citizens
for anti-Soviet pur;oses In other v:orcis, if a tourist
brings such books ir;to e Soviet Union, he should
also bring them out. -
q. I see that ..,..Bundy is becoming ethtrr
of the high"y
magazine, Foreign
Was not this the san;._`
Bundy who was
ble for
Kennedy and Johnson to
get into and escalate t':=
war in Vietnam?-Care? Ames, Iowa City, Iowa.
A. Bun;,'y, during his time in the State and
Defense Departrnen regarded as a `.`Jar hawk
of the top stripe, alth: w-'h he was most tactful and
diplomatic about it. A'cag with his brother, Nic
George Bundy, President Johnson's special assist; nt
for national security he was, as Assistant
Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs,
an important architect of U.S. policy in Vietnam.
Vlilliam Bundy is cu_n ntly a research associate
with the Center fo- l ornational Studies at Ivlas-
sachusetts Institute of Tec")nology. His academic fate
has been more pre>>`:~ ces than that which befell his
colleagues, Dear, ,^?.`i:-: r-d Walt Whitman os;ow.
Q. Does the CIA run ^.n-r' O Free Europe and Radio
Liberty?--Dien Vi.
A. These lest Corn ..s._ed radio stations are
largely operations of th U.S. Central Intelligence
Agency whose direcier is t ichard Heims.
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his fu u e oo.~ to the symp oms o, par n i
tell-dtt ~.`/t tct EVA v.i~``i)i ~ iii tioii ~"'~-: 1'ii'~ra ?ll ~i ..:i)
is there any proof tit 2t Adolf Hitler was a sex
pervert or that his murderous behavior was moti-
vated by sexual inadequacy?-J. H. Knowles, Ber e-
ley, Calif.
A. Russian pathologists who autopsied Hitler's re-
mains, reported in 15'53' that he was a victim of
"monorchism," a man born sexually incomplete. A
1943 study of Hitler's personality by the-Office of
Strategic Services, vraitirne pre.'ecessor of the
Central Intelligence Agency, reveals that Hitler was
a masochist who could achieve full sexual satisfac-
tion only as a result of sadistic punishment by a
female.
Dr. Norbert Bromberg of Tarrytown, N.Y. and the
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York City,
is preparing a popular book on Adolf Hitter which
will reveal in detail Hitler's sex life. At a recent meet-
ing of the American Psychoanalytic Association in
New York City,? Dr. Bromberg gave a paper entitled,
Further Observations on Hitler's Character and its
Devefowne,it.
Another outstanding reference is The Death, a,
Adolf Hitler by L. in this
country by Harcourt, hr ce in 19 3.
There is a great deal of evidence that Hitler vias
,
also a'syphilitic, a sociopath, and of course a hypo-
chondriac who was an easy mark for medical quacks
of all types.