‘A TRAGIC FIGURE’
Toynbee On Johnson (N.Z. PrM Atan.—Copyright) STANFORD (California), April 12. President Johnson would be viewed by future historians as a tragic figure, said the British historian, Professor Arnold Toynbee, the Associated Press reported. The 77-year-old author of the monumental “A Study of History” gave his opinion on Monday as he began a visiting professorship at Stanford University. “Humanity is dancing on the edge of a precipice,” he warned. The President, he said, appeared more interested in face-saving than in “ending a barbarous war which threatens the foundations of American democracy.” Mr Johnson is an abler politician than President Kennedy, Professor Toynbee said, but his ability to “fix Congress is having a dangerous effect” “The attitude of his Government right or wrong, is really the death of democracy. I hope this is going to be reversed,” he Mid. Professor Toynbee Mid that the United States should stop bombing North Vietnam and then help Ho Chi Minh become an Asian Tito.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31343, 13 April 1967, Page 20
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