Nation: End of the March

The shift from love to hate, from pacifism to violence, was sharply visible in Manhattan. TIME Contributing Editor Mayo Mohs observed one line of the New York Moratorium March:

ALMOST at once I could sense that these marchers were different. There was a fresh new hate in them, a bitterness hurled indiscriminately at the world around them. At one corner a black cop, patient but looking terribly weary, stood with his fellow officers holding back the crowd while the traffic went through. The front line of protesters was shouting the old chant "1-2-3-4—we don't want your —— war"; one girl—she could...

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