Abstract

Editorials

This article focuses on some current issues in the United States. Writer Herman Kahn has a ladder in the April issue of Fortune, which, does not lead to heaven. Usually a ladder is not needed to reach hell, but that is Herman's likely destination. The title of Mr. Kahn's piece is "Escalation As a Strategy," and the thesis is that in a situation of incipient conflict a nuclear nation must get on the escalation ladder and climb. In one of its useful roundups, this time by writer Robert E. Dallos, The Wall Street Journal tells of the boom in the John Birch Society's fortunes. Far from being discomfited by the resounding defeat of executive Barry Goldwater, the Birchites have taken new heart. Their premise is that the United States is already 70 percent Communist-dominated and in ten years or so will be taken over lock, stock and barrel.