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TITLE: The Saturday Review of Literature
[Each Saturday Review of Literature issue covers books, arts, literature, movies, ideas, music, science, poetry and much more. Many regular features and writers, and most reviews are also essays on the subject at hand. ALL the latest books had to have an ad in The Saturday Review! ]
ISSUE DATE: DECEMBER 1972; VolUME LV, NUMBER 47, SOCIETY
CONDITION: RARE edition, standard magazine size, Approx 8oe" X 11". COMPLETE and in clean, FAIR/GOOD condition. Back cover missing, pages are good and readable. (See photo)

IN THIS ISSUE:
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COVER: The Consequences of War.

UP FRONT: The Mastermind as Mouthpiece By Barnard Collier. After listening to Henry Kissinger announce the end of war in our time, our author had misgivings -- which were confirmed not only by a man who teaches State Department negotiators how to negotiate but by Kissinger himself.

Taking On Tony Boyle By George Vecsey. The last man to run on an insurgent ticket against United Mine Workers' President Tony Boyle was murdered. Now another election is being held, and a new candidate, Arnold Miller, is attempting to oust him.

EDITORIAL: The Central Event of the Last Decade By William H. Honan. It is possible to say that the war in Vietnam has changed the consciousness of a generation fully as much as did the Second World War a quarter of a century ago.

SPECIAL ISSUE: THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE WAR:
The Political Consequences: THE VAST BACKFIRE OF ACTIVISM By David Halberstam. The principal effect of the war, the author says, Is "a growing skepticism about politicians in general and the political act as a creative force in life." In a sense we have all become "Europeans.".

The Effect on the Balance of Power, Part I: REAPING THE BENEFITS OF DEFEAT By Edwin 0. Reischauer. In strict balance-of- power terms, declares Professor Reischauer, the irony is that losing the war has proved more profitable than winning it; yet certain domestic and foreign reactions to the outcome could be dangerous.

The Effect on the Balance of Power, Part II: AN EROSION OF MUTUAL TRUST By Theo Sommer. "Europeans fear that the 'Vietnam ization of Vietnam' might be followed by the 'Europeanization of Europe,'" writes the political editor of Die Zeit.

The Effect on the Balance of Power, Part III. A VICTORY FOR ALLIANCE By Lord George-Brown. The mere fact that the Vietnam battle was fought by the United States, writes a former British Foreign Secretary, is in itself a great victory for "the freedom to establish freedom.".

The Cost in Human Lives: WHO REALLY DIED IN VIETNAM? By Leslie Fledler. "It dawned on me slowly," the author writes, "that I had never known a single family that had lost a son in Vietnam." And the reason, he concludes, is that this has been the first war that "has been fought for us by our servants.".

The Cost in National Treasure: $400,000,000,000 PLUS By Robert Lekachman. The dollar cost is staggering, says the author; yet there is more to be reckoned: inflation, unemployment, and -- worse -- a diversion of public resources, attention, and commitment from domestic reform.

The Effect on Social Programs: THE GREAT SOCIETY WAS NEVER A CASUALTY OF THE WAR By Nathan Glazer. Conventional wisdom has it that the cost of the war necessitated a cutback in social programs. Not true, says the author, in contrast to the preceding essayist. The funding of most such programs has shot up right along with the increase in military spending. He explains how.

The Consequences for South Vietnam: EACH DAY IS A SEPARATE ORDEAL By Gloria Emerson. "The effects of the war on Vietnam have been so deep and so disruptive," writes a veteran foreign correspondent, "that it is hard for me to imagine, even with peace, how a healing process could take place in my lifetime."

The Effect on the Military: THE DECLINE AND NEAR FALL OF THE U.S. ARMY By Seymour M. Hersh. The army was saved from "out-and-out ruin," says a prize-winning military reporter, only by the presidential decision to pull it out of Vietnam.

The Effect on the Veterans: THE "GOOK SYNDROME" AND "NUMBED WARFARE" By Robert Jay Litton. The psychological problems of returning combat veterans could pose a serious threat to this society, says a leading psychiatrist. But even more ominous are the potential effects of "numbed warfare."

The Moral Consequences: SLUM LANDLORDS IN EDEN By Francine du Plessix Gray. "While the minority floundered in self- flagellation," writes the author, "the majority clutched more fiercely than ever to its old myths of American innocence and Edenic perfection.".

Speculative Consequences: FOUR "WHAT IFS" FOR VIETNAM By Herman Kahn. "To abandon South Vietnam at the present moment," writes Herman Kahn, "is to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory." Among the consequences of a too hasty withdrawal, he continues, might be a Ronald Reagan -- Creighton Abrams ticket in 1976 and the possibility that Hanoi might win in a cease-fire what it has lost on the battlefield.

SR REVIEWS:
BOOKS:
Queen Victoria By Cecil Woodham-Smith, Reviewed by Peter Stansky.
Mafia, U.S.A. Edited by Nicholas Gage, Reviewed by James Conway.
Journey Between Two Chinas By Seymour Topping, The Morning Deluge: Mao Tsetung and the Chinese Revolution, By Han Suyin, Reviewed by Arthur Prager.
FILMS: Temptations of St. Fellini By Thomas Meehan.
TRAVEL: France's "Desert".
GAMES: Wit Twister; Literary Crypt; Kingsley Double-Crostic No. 2015.

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