The Press: Right or Wrong: A Maury Sampler

FOREIGN KIBITZERS

—are horning in with advice to the U.S. President to pull out of Cambodia, pull out of Viet Nam, and so on.

Britain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson is one of these. Prominent British Conservative Enoch Powell is another. French Foreign Minister Maurice Schumann is still another.

The correct answer to these gentlemen, we believe, is that the U.S.A. has been the prime factor in winning their countries' last two major wars for them and does not need their advice as to how to conduct its own wars.

AID-TO-THE-ENEMY DAY

—Organizers of the manifold demonstrations set for today against further U.S. participation in the Viet Nam War lump them under the title Viet Nam Moratorium Day.

We have a better name for it. We call it Aid-to-the-Enemy Day . . .

The treacherous nationwide jamboree got its start in the brain of a Harvard Divinity School dropout.

It has been snapped up, amplified and financed by—KOOKS, REDS, DUPES

—and a few idealists ... so that today may witness a lot of U.S. mob convulsions which will greatly encourage the enemy . . .

[Americans] might just send the President an immortal saying by a great American named Stephen Decatur: "Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country right or wrong."

WINNER AND STILL CHAMP

—For generations, [William Shakespeare] has been recognized as the greatest English master of the drama, and quite possibly the greatest handler of the English language, that ever yet has trod this earthly ball. . .

Shakespeare and Dickens had several things in common. They . . . composed stage or fictional pieces which had definite beginnings, unmistakable climaxes and positive endings.

Neither Dickens nor Shakespeare wrote so-what tripe that gets nowhere and is in some fashion nowadays. Nor did they glorify characters whom even the ablest of modern psychiatrists couldn't help.

End of today's discussion of matters literary.