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“On Vietnam.” Partisan Review 32 (fall), 638–639, 641–643, 645–646. Essay written in response to “Statement by the Editors of Partisan Review” on Vietnam and the Dominican Republic in the summer number. Mailer is one of 14 to respond. Rpt: As “A Happy Solution to Vietnam: From a Partisan Review Symposium” in 66.11 and 68.11. “Mailer’s Reply,” which follows a reprinting of the editor’s statement, prefigures his argument against the war in The Armies of the Night (68.8).