Norman Mailer: Works and Days

"Viet Nam Day" — Few Surprises: Theme Was "Hate America"

A report in an anti-communist weekly on the 21-22 May Vietnam protest meetings at UC Berkeley, quoting Dick Gregory, I. F. Stone, and Mailer: "We are a property-loving nation, obsessed with the desire to destroy other people's property."

A report by an unidentified writer in Tocsin: The West’s Leading Anti-Communist Weekly on the 21–22 May Vietnam protest meetings at the University of California, Berkeley. It quotes the speeches of Dick Gregory, I. F. Stone, and Mailer, who says, “We are a property-loving nation, obsessed with the desire to destroy other people’s property.”

First published: 1965-05-27
Form: article
Lennon & Lennon: 65.12
Cite as: /works/1965-05-27-viet-nam-day-few-surprises
Last updated: 2026-05-30