BERKELEY AT PRINCETON A REPORT BY ALICE WIDENER ON THE FIRST MAJOR REGIONAL RADICAL EDUCATION PROJECT CONFERENCE HELD BY STUDENTS FOR A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY AT MCCOSH HALL, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY FEBRUARY 17,18 AND 19, 1967

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Vol. XIV February 24-Mardi 10, 1967
BERKELEY AT PRINCETON
. A Report by
ALICE WIDENER
on the First Major Regional
RADICAL EDUCATION PROJECT CONFERENCE
held by
STUDENTS FOR A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY
at
McCOSH HALL, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
February 17, 18 and 19, 1967
"I very deliberately didn't prepare a paper-all of you read the paper
I gave at the Socialist Scholars. Conference. ... All this is within a
certain logic, the basic concept of Lenin. My argument supports that."
PROFESSOR HARRY MAGDOFF
February 19, 1967, McCosh 10
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THE ADVANCE PUBLICITY On February 8, 1967, The Prince-
Early in February 1967, the New
York City office of Students for a
Democratic Society, 49 West 27th
Street, announced that the first major
SDS regional Radical Education
Project conference would take place
at Princeton University, February
17-19, and issued the following
schedule:
Friday evening, February 17, A
NEW SDS DOCUMENT, by 3 New
School' Students, Dave Gilbert, Bob
Gottlieb and Gerry Tenney-"THE
PORT AUTHORITY STATE-
MENT"-prepared as a sequel to
Port Huron,' towards a general
theory of change. Followed by com-
mentary by Alexander Ehrlich of
Columbia Univ. Economics Dept.,
veteran radical journalist Max Gor-
don, and Jim Jacobs of the national
REP staff.
Saturday, February 18: A DE-
VELOPMENTAL STUDY OF
THE NEW LEFT, by John Cowley
of the New School, discussed by
John Maher of Harvard SDS, and
Steve Max, former SDS field sec-
retary.
GREG CALVERT, SDS NA-
TIONAL SECRETARY, talks about
new possibilities for organizing in
the student movement and in the
larger New Left; ADJUSTING
OUR PERSPECTIVES: A LOOK
AT THE AMERICAN UNIVER-
SITY by sociologist NORMAN
BIRNBAUM of the New School,
with commentary by John Fuerst
of Columbia SDS and Jim Sommers,
CCNY sociologist.
Sunday, February 19: HARRY
MAGDOFF, New School economist,
discusses two aspects of his paper
"The Economics of U.S. Imperial-
ism" (see Monthly Review, Nov.
'66), THE EFFECTS OF MILI-
TARY SPENDING ON THE DO-
MESTIC ECONOMY and THE
NATURE OF U.S. INVEST.
MENTS ABROAD. Comments by
Rick Wolff of Yale and Ray Brown
of Sarah Lawrence College Dept.
of Economics. PAUL SWEEZY,
editor of Monthly Review, on COR-
PORATE TECHNOLOGY. DR.
E. J. NELL on POTENTIALS
FOR SOCIAL LIBERATION in
the automated society. Work ses-
sions on radical education project.
tonian carried the following front
page center column news report :
SDS CONFERENCE CALLED
TO PRESENT EDUCATION
PROJECT
by CHUCK KERR
and JOE FIELD
The Princeton chapter of Students
for a Democratic Society will spon-
sor the world's first Radical Edu-
cation Project in McCosh 10, Feb-
ruary 17, 18 and 19.
The conference, including REP
chapters from throughout the North-
east, will discuss the Port Authority
manifesto which is a revised and
modernized version of the Port
Huron statement.
The de facto constitution of the
anti-dogmatic SDS, the Port Huron
Statement is now considered, "while
good . . . outdated and naive," ac-
cording to-Princeton SDS president
Robert G. Burlingham '67.
Though not an ideological plat-
form, the new Port Authority state-
ment attempts to correlate current
SDS thought in regard to contempo.
rary domestic and foreign issues.
AMONG THE AUDIENCE
Indeed many important leaders in
Students for a Democratic Society
(SDS) did attend the Radical Edu-
cation Project (REP) conference in
McCosh Hall at Princeton University
during the very cold snowy week-end
of February 17, 18 and 19. So did
important Communists and fellow
travelers in the Old and New Left.
In every way the REP conference
at Princeton bore witness to the truth
of testimony given on Capitol Hill
in Washington, D.C. about Students
for a Democratic Society by J. Ed-
gar Hoover, director of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation : "Commu-
nists are actively promoting and par-
ticipating in the activities of this
organization, which is self-described
as a group of liberals and radicals."
If ever there was an "extremist"
gathering in our country, this was it.
Yet despite Mr. Hoover's public
warning about SDS and despite the
front page advance publicity in The
Princetonian, not a single member
of the Princeton University top ad-
Educational Arm ministration was present at the week-
REP, according to an SDS spokes-
man, "is the educational arm of
SDS," It was created3 to formulate
radical left-wing thought. through
periodic conferences and study
groups.
Although this is to be the first
major REP conference in REP's
short history, fewer than 200 dele-
gates representing sundried affilia-
. tions are expected. Community ac-
tion conferences in Washington and
New Brunswick will siphon off some
potential delegates.
Voice of the New Left
Speakers will include: three New
School students who penned the
Port Authority Statement; Harry
Magdoff, speaking on American im-
perialism; Leo Huberman discussing
monopoly capital and Gray [sic]4
Calvert, the National Secretary of
SDS, who will outline his program
for organizing students.
end conference, no trustee was there,
and no prominent representative of
the student body to take open issue
with the Leftists who spent the entire
week-end defaming the United States
of America.
Absent too were those members of
the New York City press and radio-
TV broadcasting networks who spe
cialize in bitter opposition to "ex-
tremists" and manage to attend and
roundly denounce alleged "extremist"
gatherings on the political right. It
seems reasonable to assume that if
The Princetonian had carried a front
page news story about a forthcoming
conference to be held at the univer-
sity by a youth group even faintly
suspected of connection with "the
Far Right," there would have been
a torrent of protest in the New York
City liberal newspapers and prob-
Although the conference has no ably there would have been a small
practical pretensions, it is intended army of reporters and broadcasters
to make SDS policy more coherent present to describe in detail the per-
i
leaders n the future. Many important SDS sonal physical appearance of speakers
lan t
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f Formerly, New School for Social Re-
the collo- and delegates, to report on their re-
quiume p
search in New York City. _ marks, and to analyze every aspect
' The Port Huron (Michigan) State- of the roceedin s Somehow one
ment is the original SDS founding docu- 3 see U.S.A., Vol. XIII, September 19, p g
meet, drafted in ' 11v 'F( tlr l@&se %0 56 ft*
1962. is 'gg3?? OOogob)f Uh6it-4loubt the sincerity of
name is Greg, not Gray. liberal" reporters and broadcasters
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rofessin to a s o era
s ions among some re- delegates from the Northeast region
recognizing its existence only in cruits there was talk of "organizing of our nation but also "hippies"
groups regarded as "rightists." training groups on how to break from San Francisco and agitators
There were, for example, no little through police lines, get past security from Berkeley. One of the latter
old ladies in tennis shoes at the guards, and get right into the guts told the assembly at Princeton during
Princeton University SDS confer- of the places we're going to go. This a discussion from the floor, "I spent
ence. But there were quite a few time we're not going to stay outside nine years working in politics at
little old ladies in galoshes or snow Police lines at the U.N. We're go- Berkeley." In the lectures delivered
boots who have been longtime sup- ing to break through, get past secu- from the dais in McCosh 10 and
boters of the Socialist Workers rity guards, and go right in the head- during the ensuing discussion pe-
Party, and t the Socialist
socialist League quarters and GA buildings. If riods, the language concerning our
for Industrial Dtmocracythough the there's any rough stuff, they'll be to country and many of its most promi-
blame and be exposed for the police nent civic and business leaders was
I
latter or organization Dem racy, to have
disavowed SDS which is an out- brutes and fascists they are." slanderous but clean, in fact, culti-
growth of the Student League for It was obvious that "GA" meant vated, eloquent and even erudite. At
Industrial Democracy. the U.N. General Assembly building. mealtimes and between formal ses-
If plans discussed at the Berkeley- signs, however, the tongues of many
"I've been a supporter of the at -Princeton members and other L.I.D. for longer than I can re- -Princeton SDS Radical Education youthful
Project conference and in other radi- participants, both male and female,
member, said gray-haired Katherine cal circles and "peace" groups across were as filthy as their fingernails,
Smith of Long Island to some coin- our nation are not frustrated before hair and clothes.
panions in McCosh Hall, and went April 15, it will require thousands Advance notices sent out to regis-
on to express her enthusiasm for ~
the young radicals in SDS. "We're of police to restrain the illegal ac- tered REP conference participants
the struggling with the question," she tivities of demonstrators bent on advised them to "bring sleep-wear"
said in an I-wouldn't-hurt-a-fly voice, trouble making and perhaps thou- for use in inexpensive overnight ac-
"of getting in touch with high school sands of National Guardsmen. There commodations at Princeton. Many
seniors." seems to be. no doubt that certain of the young people did lug along
elements in the Spring Mobilization bundles of it and dragged them into
A much younger woman present to End the War in Vietnam want McCosh 10 on Sunday afternoon
was Mrs. Susan A. Schwartz of violence at home and will do any- prior to the final conference session.
Trenton, who talked to SDS mem- thing to get it, for it is inevitable The stench of the sleep-wear equalled
bers during lunch and recess periods that if a mass effort to penetrate the filth of the social conversation.
about the New Jersey DuBois Clubs police lines and get past security
and tried to recruit them into the guards is undertaken, then someone On Sunday morning at McCosh,
Communist-controlled groups. "The will be hurt, no matter how careful Sue Eneat of the New York rk City
trouble is," she explained to a woman the law-enforcement officers are in SDS office took the microphone to
in her sixties, "some of them really trying to avoid a bloody incident, thank the Princeton University ad-
would like to join us, but they think On February 26, The New York ministration. "They've been very
it's best not to because they plan to good to us about custodial help and
go into big law firms or industries Times carried a special report by not charging much for the rooms,"
after college and carry on their iradi- ndustries Douglas Robinson on the Spring Mo- she said,
cal work from inside them. The bilization Committee. The Times re-
y porter quoted the committee's na- Possibly the Administration later
feel DuBois Club membership might tional director, the Reverend James discovered it should have charged
hurt their chances of getting in to Bevel, as saying he will not exclude much more. There was general de-
where they want to go. They say radical organizations from his move- fiance 'of the "No Smoking" signs
otherwise they'd be with us. She ment even at the risk of alienating on McCosh walls and the floors were
paused for breath and went on hap- moderate littered with cigarette butts, sandwich
pity, "But we've been successful with groups. This is not sue- few. We feel the best es get prising because James Bevel was a and chewing gum wrappers. It must
a way to get main speaker at the January 15, 1966 have cost a pretty penny to clean
them in is through a peace group. Chicago organizing conference of the up the Gothic hall which, for the
A heavy-set, middle-aged man
named Abe Weisberg was at the
Radical Education Project confer-
ence in McCosh 10 at Princeton. A
worker in the Spring Mobilization
Committee, 857 Broadway, New
York City, he was recruiting partici-
pants for a demonstration on April
15 at the United Nations and ex-
plained, "We're trying to get the
radical activist Committee for Inde- week-end of February 17, 18 and 19,
pendent Political Action at McCor- became Berkeley-at-Princeton.
mick Place," in which notorious Com-
munists and race riot instigators took
part. So did leaders of Students for
a Democratic Society.
At the recent SDS Princeton con-
ference, there were present not only
grounds of the U p5f3lgd'or Relea
THE UNITED STATES:
"MONSTER" AT McCOSH
When the janitors did their work,
it is to be hoped they let in fresh
air. During the entire week-end, the
stale air .was infected with impiety,
A' f2 ? -6i rR6VA3ab869R e; strumpeted, with
a e o in dulcet tones of
February 24-March 10, 1967 a
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virtue, with insult and
America.
injury to enjoy affluence and adequate con-
On Monday, February 20, The
Princetonian carried the headline,
"SDS-REP Conference Derogates
Capitalism" over an excellent short
account by reporter Larry Rosen-
berg, who wrote critically and ac-
curately :
The arrow on the west door of
McCosh 10 pointed left. And the
SDS's first regional Radical Edu-
cation Project (REP) conference,
held at Princeton this week-end,
clearly went in that direction.
"The fact of the war in Vietnam
has accelerated the change in Amer-
ican society," declared the confer-
ence coordinator Steve Halliwell
Friday night, "and it is important
to recognize the challenges and
problems created by this change."
Described by Halliwell as "the
most loose-hanging conference that
ever hit Princeton," the organizers
.attacked the evils of "corporate lib-
eralism"G as the basis of a need for
radical change in American society.
Dave Gilbert, a graduate student
at the New School for Social Re-
search, opened the ideological as-
pect of the conference Friday night
by attacking the domination of
"corporate capitalism" in American
politics. . . .
The Port Authority statement7
entitled "Towards a Theory of So-
cial Change in America" analyzed
present conditions in American so-
ciety and indicated a need for elimi-
nation of U.S. imperialism. .. .
From an examination of the po-
litical economy of the United States,
Gilbert holds that "American capi-
talism, even if taken as an internal
system, is a violent system."
The 58-page [Port Authority]
paper also considered the concept
of "post-scarcity" as the nearest
modern linguistic equivalent to the
socialist "withering away of the
state." . . .
As reported in The Princetonian,
most REP speakers used modern
linguistic equivalents for classical
Marxist-Leninist terminology. They
argued that under the present Ameri-
can economic system, only "imperi-
alists" and "monopoly capitalists"
sumption; the working class major-
ity, they claim, suffer from "scarcity"
and any "post-scarcity" economy
would therefore have to be a socialist
one.
.A Columbia University student,
who said that the American people
enjoy the highest living standard and
widest mass consumption of goods
and services in the world, seemed
to be somewhat shaken by the pro-
ceedings at McCosh. He asked a
few penetrating questions during
open discussion from the floor. Later
another Columbia student, evidently
troubled, cornered Dave Gilbert dur-
ing lunch hour and pressed him for
a statement of SDS-REP aims.
The Technique of Demands
"Eventually," said Gilbert, "we
seek to create a communist society
in which everything will be decen-
tralized and there will be no formal
educational institutions. People want-
ing to know things will seek out
persons with knowledge."
The Columbia student asked how
SDS intends to achieve radical
change in American society.
"We use the technique of de-
mands," explained Gilbert, "always
pushing and pushing on through de-
mands, to an end where they have
to give in or fight against the revo-
lution."
To a student of classical commu-
nism, there is little difference between
Mr. Gilbert's technique and that of
traditional Communist revolutionary
action whereby the middle class
(bourgeoisie) are pressed into such
an adverse situation that they must
resist or surrender. Communists al-
ways deny they seek violent over-
throw of the existing government;
they claim it is the bourgeoisie's
foolhardy resistance to their own in-
evitable destruction that leads to vio-
lence, a resistance that becomes vio-
lent through futile efforts at self-
By "corporate liberalism" the SDS defense.
radicals mean American businessmen's sup- On Saturday afternoon, Greg Cal-
port of measures that improve conditions
in our economic and social system. vert, newly elected National Secre-
7 This document was not circulated at tary of Students for a Democratic
his light brown hair just a little long
at the back, Calvert jokingly de-
scribed himself as a "prairie dog"
visitor to the East from the prairie
state and began his speech with the
declaration, "The movement for radi-
cal change in America is going
through change." He said radicals
must now "orient themselves toward
the third world revolution." It is
against, he said, "the American mon-
ster." Defining the monster as
"American corporate capitalism," he
characterized it as "incredibly brutal
at home and abroad." He described
the new radicalism in America as
coming from "deep gut level percep-
tion of human beings" and defined
this perception as "revolutionary class
consciousness-to use traditional8 vo-
cabulary."
The main aim of the SDS-REP
conference at Princeton during the
mid-February week-end was to de-
pict the United States of America as
a monster. After hours and hours
of listening to the speeches and dis-
cussions, it seemed McCosh Hall it-
self became a Gothic fiend belching
calumny against our country and iso-
lating the conferees in mental cubi-
cles walled with mirrors reflecting
horrible images.
When white-haired Paul Sweezy,
editor of the Far Leftist Monthly
Review was introduced to the SDS
gathering on Sunday afternoon, all
were urged to buy his book "Monop-
oly Capital," written with the late
Paul A. Baran, and described as
"must" reading. Copies were on sale
outside McCosh 10 throughout the
week-end. Published in 1966, the
book bears the dedication "For Che"
-probably meaning Che Guevara of
Red Cuba-and the following quota-
tion on a flyleaf :
Two centuries ago, a former
European colony decided to catch
up with Europe. It succeeded so
well that the United States of Amer-
ica became a monster in which the
taints, the sickness, and the inhu-
manity of Europe have grown to
appalling dimensions.
-Frantz Fanon
In a preface to his book, Sweezy
writes, "One type of criticism we
would like to answer in advance. We
a few copies were in exite~ ce. X rox
copies would 1A s> 9Pase 21 }65/2&1e MbMP 3fMM00206+40104-4
was explained. small brush mustache, and wearing s Traditional Marxist vocabulary.
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p y e accuse exag- Red Sermon by the Senate Internal Security Sub-
gerating. It is a charge to which committee
d'1 Earlier that d
on S d
we rea i y plead guilty. In a very , un ay morn-
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real sense the function of both sci- ing at McCosh, a Red sermon was
ence and art is to exaggerate, pro- delivered to the SDS-REP confer-
vided that what is exaggerated is ence by "Professor" Harry Magdoff
truth and not falsehood." of the New School in New York
Sweezy's sophistry is characteristic
of his tortured Marxist dialectic, for
truth' is truth and, being so, cannot
be exaggerated, as William Shakes-
peare recognized when he cried out
in Sonnet LXVI for restful death,
so tired was he of eleven evils among
which was "simple Truth miscall'd
Simplicity."
The miscalling of simple truth,
through over-simplification or exag-
geration, was a ritualistic intellectual
process throughout the SDS-REP
conference at Princeton. From the
dais in McCosh 10, Sweezy said the
technology of 20th century capitalism
is merely "perfected means of de-
struction" and tied solely to profits.
"It follows," he said, "you cannot
reform this monopoly capitalist sys-
tem--all the welfare state does is
merely emasculate opposition to the
system." Didactically, Sweezy an-
nounced, "The only hope is to over-.
throw the system."
Again and again, Sweezy and the
REP conference leaders urged the
participants to study "Monopoly
Capitalism" in which, after a denun-
ciation of the "intolerable" American
social order, and an analysis of the
possibility of "a real revolutionary
movement in the United States,"
there is the prediction that "the most
powerful supporters of the present
irrational system will crumble." The
book ends with the mad Hitler-Stalin
type statement, "The drama of our
time is the world revolution ; it can
never come to an end until it has
encompassed the whole world."
Sweezy ended his Princeton speech
with an almost word-for-word repe-
tion of the call in his book to fight
against the American capitalist sys-
tem "which maims, oppresses and
dishonors those who live under it,
and which threatens devastation and
death to millions of others around
the globe." Approved For Release
City. He discussed his paper "The
Economics of U.S. Imperialism"
(published by Monthly Review press,.
1966) and portrayed our country as
a military-industrial monster seeking
"to colonize" West Europe through
corporate foreign investments. He
showed several charts on a large
teaching screen to prove that the do-
mestic internal U.S. economy during
the last ten years has been stagnating
except for sales and profits derived
from exploitation of foreign mar-
kets and from miiltary expansion.
Having branded the U.S. oil indus-
try with the single sweeping Marxist
generalization "oil is pure imperial-
ism of the most arrogant sort," Mag-
doff turned the heat of his radical
ire on General Motors and General
Electric, especially the latter.
"I very deliberately didn't prepare
a paper," he began his speech, in a
palsy-walsy way, smiling at the
young people. "All of you read the
paper I gave at the Socialist Scholars
Conference." Then he praised "the
very fruitful discussions I had last
week-end at Ithaca with the SDS
group."
Evidently Harry Magdoff gets
around today with the same nimble-
ness as in the past. But he is not
nearly so reluctant to speak out now
as he has been on certain momen-
tous occasions. At Princeton Uni-
versity among fellow radicals, he was
willing to state his real intellectual
and political position. "All this," he
told the SDS-REP conference about
the notes, charts and remarks he was
presenting, "is within a certain logic,
the basic concept of Lenin. My ar-
gument supports that."
Ile has supported it for a long
time, even during his employment in
the U.S. Government from New
Deal days until 1946. Concerning
his activities, there is the following
Congressional record contained in
Mr. Sourwine (Committee Coun-
sel) : "Did you ever know of
Harry Samuel Magdoff?
Mr. Weintraub [David, Depart-
ment of Economic Affairs, United
Nations] : "Yes."
Mr. Sourwine: "Was he em-
ployed by the National Research
Project [U.S. Work Projects Ad-
ministration] ?"
Mr. Weintraub: "Yes."
Mr. Sourwine: "Did you know
that Silverman and Perazich and
[Harry] Magdoff and Kaplan and
Gromov, all . . . have been named
by Elizabeth T. Bentley, who is
a self-confessed former Soviet
agent, as having been members of
an underground group in Wash-
ington, the purpose of which was
to gather and forward information
to the Russian Government?"
Mr. Sourwine: ". . . four
groups of persons, all of whom
had been cited in sworn testimony
as members of the Communist
underground [in U.S. Government
employ] . . . . The Perlo group
was Victor Perlo, Edward J. Fitz-
gerald, Harold L. Glasser, Charles
Kramer, or Krevitzky, Solomon
Leshinsky, Harry Magdoff, Allan
Rosenberg, and Donald Niven
Wheeler; . . ."
Mr. Sourwine: "Do you know
Harry Samuel Magdoff ?"
Mr. [Irving] Kaplan: "I refuse
to answer on the grounds it may
tend to incriminate me."
On May 1, 1953, Harry Magdoff
himself was questioned by the Sen-
ate Internal Security Subcommittee.
He refused to answer and took the
Fifth Amendment in reply to the
question whether he was "at this
very moment a member of a secret
and espionage ring" operating against
the interests of the U.S. Government
by Communists and on behalf of the
Soviet Union.
1 e ~ 2b ~'W002ON4b' 4a record, known for so
aci c Re a ions, ay long, it seems inconceivable that
February 24-March 10, 1967
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faculty of even such a left-of-center "Edith Black of Union Theological searchers in and around NACLA
institution as the New School, and Seminary" and she looks like an who are in touch with Ramparts and
almost incredible that he should be angel with pink-and-white complexion with the. SDS Radical Education
permitted to occupy the dais in Mc- and long flowing wavy golden hair. Project, a general situation substan-
Cosh 10 at Princeton University to "I am a revolutionist," she told tiating the boast printed in the orig-
defame our country, its industrial an elderly woman during lunch hour. inal REP document issued by SDS
corporations, economic and social "Not just a Marxist, a revolution- at Ann Arbor, Michigan last year
system, and political leaders without ist." Miss Black discussed with a that SDS had established an "inter-
there having been present to chal- few friends national intelligence network."
lengc him anyone from the Prince- -a11 very much in the in- (See
tone hin-i n, the of Prince- side SDS-her contacts with friends page 6, U.S.A. Magazine, Vol. XIII,
at the Leftist radical Ramparts Mag- September 16, 1966, No. 19-special
tees, or student government. Granted azine, and said she is now doing report on the Second Annual Con-
that most of the young people in some research "with four or five ference of Socialist Scholars.)
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Co- " lumbia student, were troubled at what ations, she said, and added with a
sweet smile, "They'll rock the na-
they heard. Had its objectivity been tion." She said the job done on
effectively disputed by a Princeton the National Student Association and
University faculty member or re- other "reformist" groups was easy.
spected Princeton official, perhaps the "What we're working on now is go-
uncertain young people might have ing to blow the whole CIA works."
been enlightened and would have quit
NAM
An undeluded young person there,
however, was a beautiful pint-sized
blonde dressed in pale lavender and
looking as innocent as the driven
snow on the campus outside the
Chapel across from McCosh Hall.
Though not listed as a speaker on
the official SDS-REP program, she
mounted the dais on Sunday morn-
ing to deliver a paper harshly critical
of American enterprise in Latin
America and especially in Brazil.
She 'said U.S. investments in Latin
America create a new form of de-
pendency there on the part of ex-
porters of raw materials and con-
sumers of U.S. manufactured goods.
This exploitation, she said leads to
Latin nations' failure to produce for
the home market. What. U.S. in-
vestment in Latin America does, she
charged, is to set up "foreign en-
claves" in the underdeveloped Latin
economies. She quoted but twisted
the meaning of a statement by
George Moore, president of the First
National City Bank, to prove her
point, and pronounced his name as
if it were that of the devil himself.
en she satcl were doing re-
search on it," the average American
would think she meant that she and
her friends are doing research on
what makes the flowers bloom in
May and snowflakes dance in Decein-
her. But what she really means by
"research" was made clear to the
REP conference participants while
she was on the dais and with charm-
ing feminine deference paid highest
intellectual tribute to Harry Magdoff.
It seems Miss Edith Black is a
very hard worker. She not only at-
tends classes at Union Theological
Seminary but also works in a cubicle
on the 9th floor at 475 Riverside
Drive (the building that houses many
religious institutions, including head-
quarters of the National Council of
Churches, a recipient of CIA funds)
with a group called "NACLA,"
North American Congress on Latin
America. There was talk at the
SDS-REP conference at Princeton
of creating a new NACLA magazine
to "blow" more revelations about the
CIA and "bring down" the 'reac-
tionary" governments of several
Latin American countries.
About 300 registrants were pres-
ent at the SDS-REP conference at
Princeton during the February week-
end. It would be very, very foolish
to estimate their true strength by
their number. University adminis-
trators and trustees should have
learned by now about the danger of
the New and Old Left radicals on
campus, a militant minority capable
of disrupting and even destroying
the majority.
Even while the Princeton confer-
ence was taking place, a grave crisis
created by a handful of Leftist radi-
cals confronted the University of
Wisconsin. Elsewhere, the election
to high student government office of
a radical SDS member at the Uni-
versity of Iowa plunged its admin-
istration into a situation with omi-
nous future implications. Greg Cal-
vert, new SDS National Secretary,
boasted from the dais in McCosh
about the SDS triumph in Iowa.
There is not the slightest doubt
about the goals of Students for a
Democratic Society. Gerry Tenney,
a co-author of the new "Port Au-
thority Statement," summed up the
SDS's aim : "The issue is control,"
he said. "The issue of control is
the one issue that exists. To ask
for question of control is to ask for
the most radical thing. If as radicals
we place the question of control as
the most important thing, the thing
we have to ask for all the time is
control."
To judge by what the Ramparts At Princeton University and at the
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the American future will indeed be
the question of control. Governors
and trustees will be confronted with
the question; so will professors, ad-
ministrators, regents, and all existing
law enforcement authorities.
During the winter week-end of
February 17, 18 and 19, the worst
element among what has come to be
called "the Berkeleyites" accom-
plished exactly what they wanted in
McCosh Hall. They entered a cita-
del of traditional American society
and can now use Princeton's pres-
tige in their effort to overthrow our
society.
Mission Accomplished
As the Berkeley-at-Princeton con-
ference broke up, late Sunday after-
noon, a campus maintenance person-
nel man watched the departing par
ticipants, most of them dirty and
unkempt, and said in disgust, "This
week-end this university needed two
things : a Joe McCarthy and this
year's football team to scrimmage
those characters out of the place."
The flagstone walks across the
campus were icy; the dark bare tree
branches were outlined with whitest
snow. A huge round blood-red sun
was sinking. It seemed to be setting
not in the West but on it.
Across from McCosh stood the
Firestone Library and the Chapel in
which a Lenten vesper service was
being held.
On the dais at McCosh, Saturday,
John Cowley, an REP-SDS speaker,
had called for "black power, student
power, community power, and above
all, workers' power. In short, a so-
cialist society 1"
In the university Chapel, late Sun-
day afternoon, a small and devout
congregation stood with bowed heads
and recited solemnly, "I believe in
one God, the Father Almighty,
maker of heaven and earth, And of
all things visible and invisible, And
in one...."
Two SDS-REP girls in their early
twenties, dressed in shiny boots,
black stockings and mini-skirts, with
long straggly-snaggly hair streaming
down from bare heads, wandered
into the Chapel and stood there
chewing gum and talking loudly to
each other.
An elderly lady in the rear turned
around and softly said a few words
to them.
Outside the Chapel on the slippery
icy walk one of the girls spun
around toward the other. "Can you
imagine?" she sputtered, "Telling us
to keep quiet or leave." Furious, she
spat out, "Reactionary old witch !"
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