MEMOIRS OF AN ANGRY AMERICAN 69 It is a small wonder then, that Moynihan's pet solutions arc pounced upon in American intellectual circles themselves. He quotes the well-know commentator Anthony Lewis, "A superpower that drops 500,000 tons of bombs on Cambodia is in raiher a doubtful position to lecture others on morality. So is a Secretary of State (Kissingcr) who asserts the right to upset the constitutional government of a friendly country by covert means." And finally, in what is perhaps the most unkindest cut of all, Moynihan^ very conception of freedom itself comes under scathing attack from another fellow-American. And he himself quotes Dr. Michael C. Latham, Professor of International Nutrition at Cornell University: "It is sad, perhaps even alarming, that Daniel P. Moynihau, our new Ambassador to the U N, should still preach a foreign policy that echoes that of John Foster Dulles .... Does Moynihan really believe that we provided all that assistance to India in the 1950s mainly because she was democratic? Surely we gave aid because she was at first anti-communist and later non-communist. Throughout all this period, it mattered to us little whether a government was democratic or autocratic. We assisted those governments that were non-communist and we still do. "Moynihan is all for freedom and that is a noble idea. But in using that term he seems to care not a whit for freedom from hunger, freedom from disease, freedom of opportunity, freedom from corruption and so on. To him freedom is living under a non-totalitarian regime, by which he means a non-communist one. Our failure has been that we have supported governments because they are anti-communist, and not because they were genuinely trying to alleviate poverty and reduce deprivations among their people." ASHOK DHAWALE