Please believe that I end my small
formal relation to PR with no ill will
on my side. I shall continue to read
PR, to wish
it
good fortune, and, if
you permit me, to write for it. You
have been good enough to suggest that
I write an essay on some of these very
matters. This I shall gladly do, and I
hope that what I write will be part
of a continuing process of clarification.
We are entering difficult terrain, and
better maps are needed than any of
us possesses.
James Burnham
We deeply regret that political dif–
ferences of a fundamental nature have
l'lld to James Burnham's resignation
from PR's Advisory Board. Burnham,
who has been accused of being pro–
McCarthy, states
in
his letter that he
is
neither for nor against him; he ap–
proves of some of his actions and meth–
ods while disapproving of others. We,
on
the other hand, believe that such
'neutralism' plays into the hands of
McCarthy and his crowd, and
is
of
no
help whatever
in
the struggle against
world Communism. Even if the "Com–
munist tacticians" exploit and exagger–
ate the issue for their own ends,
it is
still true that M cCarthy's political be–
havior provides them with the oppor–
tunity. We have always been opposed
to the anti-anti-Communist attitude that
prevails
in
some intellectual circles, and
we are equally opposed to the new
anti-anti-McCarthy attitude now advo–
cated by Burnham. It seems to us that
anti-Communism
is
strengthened rather
than weakened by outright opposition
to McCarthy and his methods.
Burnham has for many years been
a friend of PR and of its editors. Our
disagreement with him is purely politi–
cal; and we hope that it will not af–
fect our relations
in
other areas. We
are looking forward to the clarification
of his political views.-THE
EDITORS
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