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Edward Abbey — Part 3

54 pages · May 09, 2026 · Document date: Sep 22, 1952 · Broad topic: General · Topic: Edward Abbey · 53 pages OCR'd
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ee od A IRE SCP as abe oot Fiona, Fee TO ee a Cee “4 “with the greater majority of the rest of us, prefers not to have any conscription whatsoever when we have no necessity for it. He would defend his country end thet action at Penn State through the burning of the draft cards ~---- I don't think it actually materialized, but I feel thet wes probsbly one of his wild notions, és he has had in the vest, such és thie publication 'The Thunderbird: where he says "men will never ve free until the last king is strangled with the entreils of the lest priest' and attributing that to LOUISA MAY ALCOTT. I think this erticle was written by VOLTAIRE. That guctation was texen from the eres around the French Revolution or rether the Protestant Revciution, when Protestantism was being formed es a branch of the Catholic church. Of course the French Revolution was tied in with thet as well as the Social Revolution. “He espliec for e scholarshit while he wes in his Senior year at Penn Universiv,;. That wes the Fullbright Schclership which was given to hir cn the recommendetion of I velieve Dr. C. B. WICKER. He went to Scotlana to study philosophy in Edinburgh. During the time thet he wes there he mede extensive trevels over Furose I thins this is quite a long and involved philosophical term that he etteches to his beliefs and ideas.- A liveral Democrat would be & simsler wer t it, and yet we do have these contradictions coming beck. 4 com @ erces to whet he would vurpert in one moment. I think there i stion es to his loyalty to this country. I think there is no oue his being involved with eny subversive organi- zations. HE never mide any effort tc contect such en orgenizatien as fer as I know. I snow of no mention, and I know I woulé of such an organization, if such existed “I knov of ne crgenizctions thet heve tried to contect him. Propetly t i the closest to it, if this little movenent us here et the University wasn't Communist inszired, this Pecifistic meeting thst took place ‘during his last yetr ct the Universit,, I believe it is 1951, during that time thet coul +3w ‘3 24 Bk eee
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