The Exodus of
The /Americans
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■ One of the most thoropghly
glossed-over stories of our day is
breaking into the open. I refer
to the exodus of American citi
zens — fed-up people who are
moving elsewhere.
The first 1 saw of it to print
came some weeks ago in a story
by the coummist, Anthony
Lejeune, who writes from Lon
don. As I recall, Lejeune said
■there are, today, six times as
man? Yanks coming to live in
England as there were a few
years ago. And there may well
■ be: The AP says the American
Embassy , in London each month
mails 7,000 social-security checks
to Americans in Britain. In total
it says, 30,000 Americans are
in permanent residence there
though others estimate the num
. ber even higher.
A week or so ago the news
weekly, Time, came out with a
comprehensive article on the ‘
subject. %
Of course, Time, Time-like,
gave but one sde of it; why the
Lefties are moving out. It said
the out-going liberals have
grown afraid of themselves. The
flexed biceps of The Weather
men and The Black Panthers, it
seems frighten them; violence
not being their “life style.” And
as religiously those quoted threw
Time Bad one fellow saying
he left because in America, to
day, there are people “who used
to be reasonable liberals (but)
have been pushed far out to
right or to the left, so you now
have one group that wants to
overthrow the system and an
Other that is sickeningly reac
tionary. “People,” he added,
“are going berserk.”
He said that is why he and
his brood offed to Canada, be
cause the Far Left wants to “ov
erthrow the system” and the
Far Eight — well, since there
aren’t; any Far Right
in a corollary fear; fear of the
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“over-throwers” he mouths the
hog slop he presumably used in
his activist days. He speaks of
the Right as “sickeningly reac
tionary” much as he might de
scribe a ghost or a hobgoblin.
In short to hear Time tell it,
only gooxhguy liberals are
packing it in.
Well, sir, I cam tell that cant
ed publication it ain’t only the
liberals. Far outnumbering the
liberals in making a move are
plain-along American Conserva
tives.
The AP reports their reason
i for going — besides resentment
of high taxes—as being “federal
interference and the blacks.”
Even so the 'best single word
to describe the Conservative
exodus is, disillusionment. And
they leave in sorrow,, not fear.
They leave because they believe
there is no hope of disinterring
their country; they believe Dick
Nixon, as Lyndon Johnson be
|for him, as John F. Kennedy
before him, as Ike Eisenhower
before him, lacks the guts to
force the Left-Right issue. And
they feel uncomfortable at
wakes.
'Hopeless, then, and dis-spirit
ed, they 'fold their individual
tents and quietly steal away to
England to Ireland, to Greece,
to Portugal, and some to Spain’s
Costa Brava.
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Moreover, such as these are
made welcome and comfortable
for these are not cartoon Ameri
cans; there is nothing gothic or
gauche about them. Rather,
they are the middling-well-to-do,
the cultured, quiet type, the law
abiding, nominally-patriotic pro
ducers of yesterday who prefer
a [dace of peace where they can
pay their taxes, talk gently to
their neighbors and walk a lane
without the fear of a mugger.
None that I ever sat with chew
ed gum. And none I ever saw
had a glint hi his eye.
There is a great sadness here
W- don’t you think? — in that
an element of our best is pull
ing away. I refer to Conserva
tive expatriates, period.
“It is true,” one told me,
“the Irish press eternally casti
gates the United States for what
it calls an imperalistic war and
for our racial bigotry, quote, un
quote.
“All the while the Irish have
their own- war going — if you
can call it that — and you wll
find no Negroes here in Dublin,
or very, very few.
“At first, I rather regretted
leaving home. But no longer.
I*m happier,”
And America, it seems to me,
is the poorer.
WHAT IS THE
ANSWER?
by Henry E. Garrett, Ph.D.
PROFESSOR EMERITUS
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
FAST PRESIDENT
AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
Q: Dr. Garrett, I recall, years
ago, Presdent Eisenhower spoke
of making the Washington pub
lic Schools "models" of desegre
gation. Something went wrong,
wouldn't you say?
A: I would. Massive desegrega
tion has turned District schools
into custodial institutions. All
admit they are in a deplorable
condition. But it is not fair to
single these schools out except
to say they have in fact become
the “model” promised us.
Wherever such massive integra
tion has taken place, the same
situation applies. New York
schools, for instance, are on the
verge of collapse; children grad
uate from high schools -there
who still can not read. Berk
eley, Californa, schools have
been wrecked by an ultra-liberal
ediicaton who moved on to an
other job, once his Berkeley
work was done. Fights, cuttings,
assaults on teachers, vandalism,
all are now the order of -the
day — wherever massive itera
tion is in effect. And yet, not
one of the perpetrators of this
heinous crime has the manhood
— none that I ever heard of —
to stand and say he was wrong
in his advocacy. It is the great
est tragedy in American history.
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