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Letters to the Editor
Mandel calk Janes Bar
TotheEditor:
Ittahatauietty roaari Bttla pjpsojiaiah
of a soul (Mark Twafa would have added
"lily-livered"} to reinforce an argument
over foreign policy and world history by
allegaliMi about, a man's ralarlon to
his son. David Jones of your History
Department put hnnselfin that category
whan he wrote In .your issue of March
26th, about me, that "Mandel. . .ac¬
cording to one friend of his family, has
not spoken to bis son in years, because
his son became a Trotskyhe."
My son Bob is a Trotakyist (the spell¬
ing they prefer). Last summer he invited
bis xMniatn to the anrrtial picnic of Ins
organization. We went, and he had a
great fame snapping pictures of me on.
the softball rHsmnnrl because, quite
naturally, he's oolite proud of a dad past
sixty who can make a pretty good field¬
ing play and rap out a couple of bita in
a pick-up game in which most of the
. players were athletic young workingmBn
and women in their twenties and thirties.
He also likes to tell friends about how
his father ripped Joe McCarthy (the
Senator McCarthy of McCarthyismi
apart in his own. hearing room and did .
the same 4JU aeven yaars later to the
infamous rrouse Un-American Activities
Committee.
Those tapes make good enough radio
that they are rebroadcast annually,
although the events occurred in 1963 and
1980. You can listen to them Monday,
April 14th, on KFCF, at 7 p.m. or a bit
later, because a fund-raising »"—«>"■
ismprogress.
For my part, I admire Bob for the
courage be showed when he want down
Misefasfrni in 1963 to help Blacks
register to vote. Two whites and many
were murdered in that under-
And he was one of the genuine
of the resistance to the Vietnam
'ar^fiartsriilaih/opooBftinn to the draft.
He and she others stood trial for
weeks for having actually closed
Oakland Induction Center for a
week by a series of mass demonstrations
that made it impossible for it to function.
They were acquitted by a jury that found
their activity to be legitimate exercise of
the right to assemble and speak.
Bob and I do disagree on how to
achieve a better world, and we have the
wannest kind of personal relationship.
I've been thinking of how to sue Prof.
Jones for libel, but U.S. law requires
that one prove pwiwonal damage. But'
I'd have no oifficulty in bringing a
hundred people to court to testify to the
falsity of his statement (at second hsnd!)
that we do nrxspeetfr to each other.
So Jones is a bar. That's a nice, clear
four-letter word, quite pubbahabfe;
unlike.some others that come to mind
ha quite appropriate in
this kfad of attack,
more fottirn>aiw in his attack
Of three 0.C.
of toaakm history
one ersjorsed in writing my
there, which I did
1960s, and he told my
one fame a secretary in
that he had been using
a book of mine on the USSR since 1949.
.(Inasmuch, as that book'was then in
use in leading universities, it is highly
likely that Bnwzinaki and KuwJnger, n*ho
uniUte same <
were then students, were required to
read it. If so, it doesn't seem to have
ocos them naico good, i infutimsi^rr )
A second of those three professors
told me just one month ago that he'd be'
happy to endorse my qualifications in
eaaewwasa, t» m bwniirj fiwsfi m wwwlHaf
at CUco State which was considering
inviting me for a paid lecture engage-
Janes says I have no scholarly de¬
grees. That is so una: At age sixteen I
was expelled from fralftgo for Tr"***^
military training, would never apologize,
and dco't have a single year of credits.
Fourteen years later the Hoover mstitu-
tion of Stanford University invited me to
a fellowship at post-doctoral stipend,
and accepted the two hooka I had pub¬
lished by that date in heu of M.A. and
Ph.D. degrees.       •
Ask any of your professors what
that means in terms of scholarly achieve¬
ment. When the head of that institution.
Prof. H. H. Fisher, was asked by another
professor why he had invited me,' the
response was: "because Mandel knows
more about the USSR today than anyone
else in the United States.*
By that date I had been the United
Print expert on Rnsnis during World
War H, and had been an invited con-
sukant to the American Sociological
Review in panning an issue devoted to
the USSR, June, 1944, to which I con¬
tributed an article based on a study re¬
quested of me by the chief advisor to
the Bapjshican Presidential carjdjdate,
Wendell Willkie. My most recent teach¬
ing was a course in international law at
Golden Gate University law School,
1978.
Jones refers to me as a 'Stalinist,*
"old-line" to boot. Essentially the same
fCTueaticpwaaiisodtohaifrniabyavery
pruntueut network TV talk-show per¬
sonality in Vancouver, B.C., just the day
before yesterday. I rephed that in 1962,
in the Kremlin, where Khrushchev had
just announced resumption of Soviet-
nuclear bomb-testing, I was requested
by the aawiini «»■ rVwwiuiinai represen-
tation-U.S., Canadian, British, French,
Si'aisliiaivian^at a worldwide citizens'
peace gathering, to be their spokes¬
person in opposMnri to the Russian
position after they had heard the manner
in which I had voiced that opposition at
one of the panels.
listens* a to my KFCF program have
heard me express, over and over again,
my conviction that the entry of Soviet
forces into Czechoslovakia in 1968 was
against the will of the, overwh
majority of the people of that country.
(At this point in the writing of this letter
the phone rang with a request bom a
Toronto student radio station tor an
interview ■ to be used by uuiwaily
stations, nationwide. Now, back to
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me to see it in a bro»der context in a
world whose CXMiyhttity- would,: apP6**".
to be berood Mr. Joust*' powers of coo
prehensioti. In 1968, there had been no
peace treaty -** Europe, although the
guns bad bean aOent for 23 years since .
Hitler was crushed. Bat West Germany,
©Tjcouraged by Washington, continued
to hope to regain the territories German
flgrrreosvxi had caused that country to
lose. -
The Soviet invasion of Ciechnalovakia
convinced the West German chancellor,
Wuly Brandt, that that was hopeless.
Within ' two years, he signed peace
treaties with Czechcelcvakia, Poland,,
and the USSR, and then worked closely
with Brezhnev to bring' about the
Helsinki Conference, at winch ovary
nation inEurope, phis the United States,
agreed in writing that the existing
boundaries were Ciial. . ,
So the Soviet action in Czechoslovakia
made world peace firmer, although one
country, Czechoslovakia, had to pay a
'price.
Janes takes paragraphs to try to
figure out how I arrived at the figure of
9,000,000 dead due to the Intervention
by 14 (not 11)- foreign, nations against
the Russian Revolution, .1918-1920.
Simple. The estimate is by the Pentagon.
Jones then blames most of those dead
on Soviet policies, just as, immediately
afterward, he does with respect to
Cambodia.
Here, at least, we have a dear differ¬
ence in the reading of history. If Nixon
and Kissinger had not engaged in the
'secret* bombing of Cambodia ('secret'
implies that Cambodians aren' t people,
because obviously they knew they were
being bombed), that country would not
have been brought into the war, with the
soaai ana pooocai dawupooii tnat
raschan- its gruesome ^T"**1 in the Pol
If the U.S. had left Viet Nam slone
after Ho Chwninh defeated the French
in 1964, them would bare been peace.
that Ho would have won a free ejection.
SotheU.S.faresrJonsfblelrs-everyone
of the millions of Vietnamese and Cam-
IkKBarwkilledmthenextMyears.
likewise in Russia. The actual taking
of power by the G'aiiiBiiiists in Novem-
ber 1917 was one of the moe» bloodless
in history. Them waa ■
across a square to take a I
the previous grwern
on both sides were neghgUe. The cap-
They ijnaiiiwl captive ganarali to give
their words of honor as officers not to
rebel, and then foohahry let them return
to their home territories.
The next two months saw the new
government, possessing virtually no
armed forces, come to power clear across
the country in a manner so Baa-violent
that history knows it as "the triumphs'
inarch.
But when first the Germans, Austro-
Hungarians, and Turks, and then 'our*
side: the British, French, Japanese,
Americans, etc., launched the Interven¬
tion in 1918, the warfare, famine^ epi¬
demics, began.
Let's turn to our own period of his¬
tory, which is the only real mason for
you of the younger generation to be
concerned with una. Immediately after
World War n, in 1946, the Soviets with-
PETER
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