ABOUT ATLAS

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ABOUT ATLAS
It's stock-taking time in our
shop. Along about now in the
waning year we at ATLAS usu-
ally take a moment for a hope-
ful look backward. Our aim is
to see how well we have done
in our mission to bring you a
worldwide selection of articles on what is happen-
ing and what is likely to happen-politically, cul-
turally and technologically. And, too, the fun of
people and things. How well have we done?
Reasonably well, perhaps, but not as well as we
expect to do in the new year. What we have done,
in short, we hope to top.
Take, for example, the Vietnam peace talks.
ATLAS' faithful readers knew that the long-
awaited time for negotiation appeared to be draw-
ing near as early as December 1967. An article
from Le Monde by Philippe Devillers, well in-
formed on Hanoi's thinking, predicted the start of
talks three months before President Johnson's an-
nouncement. A few months later, in our issue of
last June, another distinguished French journalist,
Professor Raymond Aron, in Le Figaro, provided
perhaps the first realistic examination of the hard
realities that would confront the negotiators.
We don't claim him as a subscriber, but it could
be said that if Gamal Abdel Nasser had read "Strik-
ing Power in the Mideast," in ATLAS of March
1967, he would never have risked his siege of
Israel. In this article, which appeared in Beirut's
Middle East Forum, an Arab military expert
Ahmad Samih Khalidi sized up Arab power and
concluded that any hope of a Moslem victory lay
in a unified and coordinated force-and that was
years away. ATLAS readers also knew about the
serious discontent in the Kremlin's empire long
before most Westerners. As far back as February
1966 they had been put on the alert by an article,
"The Wobbling Satellites," from Neue Ziircher
Zeitung, which revealed real and deep-down res-
tiveness among Warsaw Pact nations-notably
Czechoslovakia and Rumania.
Our readers knew two years before Che Gue-
vara's capture and death that his guerrilla cam-
paign was coming to a deadend in the tangled
backlands of Latin America ("Damping the Fires
of Revolution," September 1966). They knew the
agony of Biafra months before mass starvation
focused world attention on that tragic conflict
("Nigerian Nightmare," March 1968).
All these significant events ATLAS readers
knew about long before the country's front pages
splashed the news. And there were many more
important articles-a list too lengthy to report
here without a suggestion of immodesty.
But there was the bubble of life and humor in
our pages along with the deadly serious. Which, of
course, lifted the spirit in the darkest hours. This
month's serio-comic cover, by the way, was drawn
by Jean-Pierre Desclozeaux, a thirty-year-old
Parisian whose finely disciplined talent has won
him many prizes. Let's say now in conclusion that
there's no more heartwarming feeling in the world
than that of being approved. In a letter from
twenty-one-year-old Private Bill Jenny of Fort
Jackson, South Carolina, we struck it rich :
"Your editor-in-chief was entirely correct in his
statements on the editor's page when he wrote,
`But for those who have opted for this way out
(leaving conventional Western culture to live on
the fringe) and who have it made, there is no real
hiding place.' Human nature is the same whether
in Rome, New York, or Pleasantville."
Or in the White House, for that matter. And
(P.S.) may we extend our best wishes and the
very best of luck to the new President who will
take on such massive burdens on January 20.
9~k. 7X. 0;~.
EDITOR IN CHIEF, Malcolm Muir, Jr.
EDITOR: John Denson EXECUTIVE EDITOR: Edith Kerr
MANAGING EDITOR: Natalie Gerard]
ART DIRECTOR: Andrea Petersen
ASSISTANT EDITORS: Linda Rae, Malcolm Muir III, Polly Howells
COPY EDITOR: Helen Nelson
LIBRARIAN: Edwina Davis EDITORIAL ASSISTANT: Sam Flores
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS: Abe Farbstein, Frank Gibney, Richard Sorich
CONSULTING EDITORS; Erik J. Friis, Johanna Reiss, A. C. Schmidt
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENTS: Samy Abboud, Hans E. Braun, Fernando Caileja, Gary Gappert,
Talat Halman, Alison Henning, Virginia Lazzati, Etienne Lotthd, Eric Marsden, Louise McAllen,
T. S. NagaraJan, Nona Ossa, John Peer Nugent, Elsa de Segasti, Guy Searls.
TRANSLATORS: Kitty Benedict, Robin Burak, Paul Fittingoff, Cynthia Gooding, Frangois Herbert,
Barbara Mackanowltzky, John Mampaey, Noel Rae, Tatlana A. Schmidt, Rosalie Siegel, Katharine Stechmann,
Christopher Trump, Harriet Zwerling.
PUBLISHER: James B. Horton
ADVERTISING DIRECTOR: William J. McVey, Jr.
BUSINESS MANAGER: Felice Fodder
? 1968 Copyright by The World Press Company. All rights reserved. Eighth year of publication: Vol. 16, Issue 6, December 1968. ATLAS, A Window on the World, is
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"Martin Bormann's address is Kolonie
Waldner 555, Parana, Brazil:'
... Frankfurter Rundschau, Frankfort, Germany
"At least $15,000,000 of U.S. aid to South
Vietnam has found its way into private bank
accounts in Bern, Basel, and Zurich:'
... L'Espresso, Rome, Italy
"Ernesto Che Guevara's body was secretly
shipped to a C. I. A. base in the United States:'
... Marcha, Montevideo, Uruguay
Only one publication printed all these quotes. It's the only publication
that lets the rest of the world tell its story to the American people.
It's called ATLAS and each month it reprints exactly what the world
press is saying.
We publish ATLAS because there is no Radio Free America -- for
people like yourself who are ready to look beyond their daily newspapers,
TV screens and radios. To read hate articles about the U.S. from the same
people who receive billions of our foreign aid dollars. To read praise from
people you thought hated us.
Yes. If you've had to depend on the preconceived ideas of the mass
media. If you've let the news services and editors decide what you should
see and what you shouldn't.
Here, finally, you have a chance to break through the
information curtain that surrounds every American.
Suddenly, you're aware of important events before anyone
else knows they're important. You're being asked your
opinions from people who want to know what's really
happening in the world. You're talking about important
European novels before they are published in the U.S.
You're telling the inside anecdotes and stories that no
one else has heard.
You're the first to see photographs of international art shows,
theatre and movie reviews and poetry not yet translated for the mass of
America. (For example, although they are still unavailable in this coun-
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try, ATLAS printed excerpts of Marshal Zhukov's memoirs and the North Vietnamese
war novel Under Fire.)
"How do you know that?" people keep asking ATLAS readers.
"It was in the LONDON TIMES." or PALANTE of Havana. or CHUO
KORON of Tokyo.
When you read ATLAS, you see the foreign cartoons and photographs which
most Americans never see. You see satire by writers like Malcolm Muggeridge and
C. Northcote Parkinson, interviews with playwrights like Osborne, Pinter
and Weiss, film makers like Bunuel and Renais -- plus reviews of their work
long before it appears in the U.S.
And, you know what the world is laughing at -- and why:
At a top-level meeting in Heaven, Genghis Khan remarked,
"If I had had the Israeli armored divisions, I would have
conquered all of Asia." Hannibal retorted, "If I had had
the Israeli Air Force, the whole of Europe would have been
mine." Napoleon looked at both of them gravely and said,
"If only I had had Radio Cairo, nobody in history would
ever have heard of Waterloo."
-- AL HAMISHAR, Tel Aviv
If you had been reading ATLAS in 1963, you would have been among the first
to read an in-depth report about the growing dangers in Vietnam, the way the
defeated French saw it in L'EXPRESS:
"If the Pentagon does not recognize the mistake it is
making, it can expect to meet the same fate that overtook
our own high command."
If you had been reading ATLAS in 1965, you would have seen London's
WORLD TODAY's caution about escalation before anyone else did:
"It might, as in Korea, result in a stalemate bitterly
expensive in lives."
If you had been reading ATLAS in 1966, you would have been the first to
know how our allies felt about the war. (Even those governments who
supported our efforts understood the folly of fighting a war no one wanted
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and no one could win.)
And you would have understood, two years ago, why not one of these
governments has come forth to help us - and why they never will.
If you had been reading ATLAS last year, you would have read the
first prediction of the Paris peace meeting.
ATLAS doesn't edit. We reprint every shade of opinion, every kind of bias
- because you're old enough, intelligent enough to grasp all the possibilities,
weigh them and come to your own conclusions.
Now you can understand who so many of the people who make the
decisions that run our country read ATLAS. (They may not heed it, but they
do read it.)
"As you know, I am a constant reader of ATLAS and I have recommended
it to many of my friends. I view it as unique in its field."
-- Allen W. Dulles
"It is brilliant... enormously interesting."
And Cyrus Vance, Nelson Rockefeller, Harry Belafonte, Kingman Brewster,
Henry Kissinger, MacGeorge Bundy, Burt Lancaster and Arthur Goldberg -- to name
a few people who need to know what's happening in an increasingly complex world.
As an ATLAS reader, you're first, too. First to read the
secret war memoirs of Russia's World War II military
leaders. First to know about the nude male model rage in
Paris. First to see the full expose of the tree
circumstances surrounding Che Guevara's "death." ATLAS
printed the first inkling that there may soon be
a meeting of the minds between Moscow and the Vatican.
ATLAS took its readers on an inside tour of Saigon's
14,000 brothels.
Since you are who you are, you may have come across a copy of ATLAS
in the past. You may have promised yourself a subscription, or you may have
looked in vain for us on the newsstands. (We're on very few.)
But whether you knew about ATLAS or you didn't, our rec-
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ords don't show you as a regular reader, and I am writing to let you consider
becoming one.
ATLAS costs $9 a year.
While other people are depending on the preconceived ideas
of the mass media, you're always aware of important events
before everyone else knows they're important. While others
are quoting TIME and NEWSWEEK, you're referring to LE
MONDE, THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN and the HANOI TIMES.
While other people are talking about the best seller
lists, you're discussing the world's most important books
- before they are translated for the U.S. While others
have the SATURDAY EVENING POST on their coffee tables,
you have the publication read by senators, Cabinet
members, scientists, editors, writers, economists and
America's top educators.
ATLAS costs $9 a year, and you either need it or you don't.
We publish ATLAS because there is no Radio Free America.
We can because this is America.
Malcolm Muir, Jr.
Editor in Chief
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P.S. If you're interested in getting 12 issues of Atlas at an introductory
rate - half price - see the order card.
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Here is the
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A sample of the stimulating,
amusing, and provocative articles
that are yours in every issue!
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Reporter PRAGUE 6 STALINISM IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA... SECRETS OF DETAINEE
NO. 1473 While Prague's fate hung in the balance-
a hitherto untold story
A1'Arab NEW DELHI 10 DID SIRHAN SIRHAN READ THIS? Spread everywhere by the Arab
League, did this bitter article keep his rage aflame?
Corriere Della Sera MILAN 13 SERVAN-SCHREIBER'S LAGGING EUROPE A shrewd young
THE WORLD LOOKS AT VIETNAM
Italian disputes the famous Frenchman's diagnosis
Die Zeit HAMBURG 19 JEAN-PAUL SARTRE TALKS TO DANNY THE RED
Just how the "active minority" stymied Paris
Der Monat BERLIN 21 THESE ARE CUBANS-WHY THEY ENDURE A revealing report
on seldom-heard-from "Cuba in-between"
Pravda Moscow 27 TAKING MARCUSE TO THE WOODSHED Why the Kremlin finds
California's prophet of the New Left dangerous
What was it that stunned Harriman on his return to the U.S.?
Asahi Shimbun TOKYO 39 THREE MYTHS OF U.S. DEMOCRACY How Vietnam has
destroyed them-A Japanese assessment
THE WORLD OF MYSTERY
Sunday Times LONDON 40 THE IMPREGNABLE HIDEOUT OF MARTIN BORMANN
Just how the No. 2 Nazi escaped and where and in what
style he is living now
L'Europeo MILAN 41 CHE GUEVARA'S ANGRY END An eyewitness disputes the
official story
THE WORLD OF BUSINESS
Die Zeit HAMBURG 45 SECRET SWISS BANKING-A CLOSE LOOK AT IT Behind the
scenes where they allow you to take your secrets to the grave
Mainichi Daily News TOKYO 46 GIANTS GROW IN JAPAN How they created the world's
second-biggest steel company
INTERCON
The Asia Magazine SINGAPORE 50 INDIA In the shadow of the sacred Kali, stagecoaches
and paddle wheelers
Far Eastern Economic Review HONG KONG 52 RHODESIA Straight talk on "the situation as it exists"
East African Standard NAIROBI 56 SWAZILAND Fleshpots for whites-in one of the world's
unlikeliest settings
WORLD OF ARTS
The Guardian MANCHESTER 58 THE FUN OF SLEEPING WITH ANTOINETTE And the hell of being
married to her afterward-Germany's hit play of the season
Literarny Listy PRAGUE 60 THE CANCER WARD By A leksandr I. Solzhenitsyn -Once again,
explosive and historic
The Observer LONDON 62 JOHN OSBORNE TALKS TO KENNETH TYNAN-CANDIDLY
About drugs, pornography, death, success, and words
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EAST EUROPE
ATLAS readers knew
what was happening
when the West had
scarcely noted the
waves of discontent
churning in the Krem-
lin's puppet empire. As
far back as February
1966, they had been
put on alert for stormy
things to come: An
article in ATLAS,
"The Wobbling Satel-
lites" (from Neue
Zurcher Zeitung), re-
vealed deep-down rest-
iveness among Warsaw Pact nations-notably Czecho-
slovakia and Rumania ... ATLAS readers knew that
the series of articles, "Revolt of the Writers" in Novem-
ber, 1967, including a "Manifesto" signed by 329
intellectuals, had propelled the quick succession of
events in Czechoslovakia. ATLAS readers knew why
the Soviet Union had so forcefully acted to take from
the Czechs their new freedoms. ATLAS in March,
1968, obtained from Grani, in Frankfurt, official jour-
nal of the anti-Soviet N.T.S. (People's Labor Alliance),
a remarkable article-"Daring Dissent in the Soviets
-an Open Letter." Yuri Galanskov, a promising young
Russian writer (28), had written: "In today's Russia
only dishonest literature can develop in the open day-
light." ATLAS readers knew that he, like his col-
leagues, Yuli Daniel and Andrei Sinyavsky, would be
thrown into prison. ATLAS readers knew, too, that
the man behind Czech democratization - Alexander
Dubcek-bore a staggering burden. ATLAS of May,
1968, described the problem of "The Red Hercules
from Bratislava"-unrelenting Kremlin pressures, a
hangover of Novotnyism, economic stagnation.
THE VIETNAM TALKS
ATLAS readers knew that peace negotiations appeared
to be near as early as November, 1967. An article in
ATLAS from Le Monde of Paris by Philippe Devillers,
well informed on Hanoi's thinking, predicted the start
of talks three months before President Johnson's an-
nouncement. Devillers believed that a "path to peace
with honor"... was opening. ATLAS readers knew
precisely the complexities of negotiation. An acute
analysis by another distinguished French journalist,
Raymond Aron, in Le Figaro of Paris, in ATLAS of
June 1968, outlined the realities confronting the nego-
tiations at the old Hotel Majestic.
WHAT NASSER DIDN'T KNOW
ATLAS readers knew what the U.A.R.'s belligerent
Nasser didn't know (or ignored). If Nasser had read
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the article in ATLAS of March, 1967, "Striking Power
in the Mideast," he would never have risked his siege
of Israel. In the article, a fellow Arab, Ahmad Samih
Khalidi, military expert writing in the Middle East
Forum of Beirut, sized up Arab power and concluded
any chance of Moslem victory was in a unified and
coordinated force-and that was years away.
INSIDE BUSINESS
ATLAS readers knew how long the reach of Japan for
world markets: the creation of the second largest steel-
making combine in the world, the making of its own
Detroits to put millions on Oriental wheels. And
ATLAS readers knew the case of Mr. W, who went
East to steal a Japanese invention.) ATLAS readers
knew how Rolls-Royce plucked a plum-a very rich
plum-from the richest tree in U.S. aviation.
FIRST WITH "THE CHALLENGE"
ATLAS readers knew the explosiveness of Jean-Jacques
Servan-Schreiber's angrily-debated, best-selling book,
"The American Challenge" before the American press
was fully aware of its impact. In effect, he put a ques-
tion to Old World nations dawdling far behind the U.S.
in the creative exploitation of brainpower and man-
power: Are Western Europeans destined to become
sub-American? ... ATLAS readers knew the hour of
Europe's menopause-and the therapy prescribed.
AND BIAFRA AND CHE
ATLAS readers knew the agony of Biafra months be-
fore mass starvation focused a shocked world's atten-
tion on the civil war ("Nigeria Nightmare," March
1968)-and they knew the Ibos (they call themselves
the "Jews of Africa") and why they are hated by other
tribesmen. ATLAS readers knew, too, the systematic
slaughter across the immense continent-500,000 blacks
slain by Arabs in the decade-long, forgotten "war" in
the Sudan. ATLAS readers knew two years before Che
Guevara's capture and death that guerrilla warfare in
the backlands of Latin America was failing to sweep
along the revolutionaries-and, startlingly, the report
came from a Communist journalist.
AND THE LIVELY ARTS
ATLAS readers knew a thing Russians didn't know-
the literary force and meaning of Aleksandr I. Sol-
zhenitsyn's new novel, "The Cancer Ward," suppressed
by the Kremlin and first published in Czechoslovakia.
ATLAS readers knew as well the poetry of new Africa,
"Song of Lawino" by Okot p'Bitek, the haunting hunger
of an African woman for an Africa lost. ATLAS
readers knew England's daft cult, the Liverpoets ...
ATLAS readers knew the memorable poem by the
great Marc Chagall in tall letters on the wall of
Jerusalem's Israel Museum, "The Martyred Artists."
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