Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-16
More on Hatred

more on HQtTeQ
The Star is to be COM.
mended for its logic and
temperate language in the
editorial More on Hatred"
1t is hoped that your attempt
to clear the emotional air a
bit will bring results, and
that it will help nightly to
bring the people Of the coun-
try back to level-headed,
epithetleSs debate on matters
political. Only then can we
really respect each other.
Let me add. however, that
your editorialist pulled his
punches when he said. 1T
remains impossible to believe
that some voices among us
were not deliberately using
the tragic occasion to attack
their political opponents, es-
pecially the Radical Right"
AS an old editorialist, politi-
cally uncommitted and a
joiner Of nothing, I would
have said it more directly:
1T cannot be doubted that
some Of the mouthers Of the
words hate and hatred
were playing politics, for it
had been the Liberals party
line for months to accuse
Of hatred anyone opposing
current administration poll
cies."
Repeatedly. Chief Justice
Earl Warren made a state
ment on hatred as the cause
Of the tragedy less than two
hours after the terrible mo-
ment in Dallas. My own eyes
and ears gave evidence that
newscaster Chef Huntley
made a statement about the
same time over a national
hook-up blaming the eli
mate of hatred"
Both stepped far out Of line
in forgetting the objectivity
and political impartiality so
necessary in their positions
of public trust.
F. d. McHugh
The Star makes some badly
needed points. 1t does indeed
seem impossible not to con-
clude that some voices among
us have deliberately used the
tragic occasion of President
Kennedy's death to attack
their political opponents
especially those they term
the radical right" This,
sadly enough, even though
the killer has been identified
as a self-avowed Connie,
about as far to the radical
left" as one can get.
AS for the possibility that
liberals" just might be guilty
of some Of that hatred" they
accuse others Of, consider a
recent article of Ralph Nc
Gill. Mr.. McGill, who usually
speaks from the leftiSt direc-
ton, recently made this flat
statement regarding Senator
Goldwater: The Senator's
appeal everywhere Is to ex-
tremes. :" These he iden-
titled as "segregationist hat
ers," "Birch-type mentali-
ties" fanatics Of the mink
stole variety" male toughs, "
"hard-faced women" lex
IRENE conservatives" And so
on.
Certainly we don't pretend
to know what, if anything,
poisoned" Mr.. McGill's
"bloodstream." And as a
Goldwater supporter, such OBJ
viously irresponsible charges
seem hardly worth challeng-
ing. except for the fact we
couldn't help wondering this 4:
Mr.. McGill is a newspaper
editor in his own right. Just
suppose subscriber had
written his newspaper using
similar terms to attack a po-
litical favorite of Mr.. Nc
ellis. Mightn't Mr.. McGill
have jumped to the conclu-
sion that here was a firSt-rate
"hater"? He might even have
concluded that the writer
was one Of those "fanaticaI
hooks" whom Mr.. McGill SC
frequently deplores.
Lila d. Sonnemann.
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It has been quite apparent
for many years that an ex-
tremely vociferous minority
of so-called liberals" were
so liberal" that they couldn't
tolerate anyone else's views
1t has become further appar-
ent. in the past few weeks
that this same group of lib
erals" would prefer to trans
fer the blame for the horren-
douS crime perpetrated by an
accused liberal" Cas accord
ing to them there are no
radical left-wingers" in this
country to the so-called
radical right wing" which
has allegedly created an "at-
mosphere Of hate in the