As Mr. Buckley recounts, Slobodan Draskovich--who had spent four years in a Nazi concentration camp during the War and, two decades before that, had seen a band of Communist assassins kill his father--had in 1958 become a charter member of the John Birch Society. Then in 1966 he publicly resigned from the Society, on the grounds of dissatisfaction with Robert Welch's leadership. This proves to be (as one might expect from Mr. Draskovich's background) a rich discussion of how a person judges whether a flawed organization is still doing more good than harm. SD: "I thought, and I was free to take that view, that beyond the National Review there was need for an organization which would reach not only the intellectuals [and] fight the Communists -- on a philosophical level and a literary level -- but would reach many more people."