From Washington Some More Quotes From the Beatles Today's column is written by Jack Anderson WASHINGTON The Beatles may finally have let their hair down too far. In recent interviews, they expounded on everything from the Pope and his "posh hat" to the "nigger" philosophy of the United States and the cost of the Vietnam war. It was only a couple of weeks ago that the Ku Klux Klan and Birmingham, Ala., disc jockeys started boycotting Beatle records over John Lennon's statement: "We're more popular than Jesus now." No telling how they'll react to the full Beatle interviews published in the London Evening Standard, in which all four take on most of the world's problems. SAID GEORGE HARRISON, the black -browed Beatle who was married in a Mongolian lamb coat and went home from the wedding to burn incense: "I think religion falls flat on Its face. All this 'love thy neighbor' but none of them are doing it. How can anybody get themselves into the position of being Pope and accept all the glory and the money and the Mercedes-Benz and that; I could never be Pope until I'd sold my rich gates and my posh hat. I couldn't sit there with all that money on me and believe I was religious. "Why can't we bring all this out In the open? Why is there all this stuff about blasphemy? If Christianity's as good as they say it is, it should stand up to a bit of discussion." Regarding the Vietnam war, Harrison said: "It's wrong. Anything to do with war is wrong. They're all wrapped up In ther Nelsons and their Churchills and their Montys always talking about war heroes. Look at all our yesterdays. How we killed a few more Huns here or there. Makes me sick." Paul McCartney, the baby-faced Beatle who lives in an old house with a street lamp post inside the front gate, had this to say about America: "It's a lousy country to be in where anyone who Is black is made a dirty nigger. There is a statue of a good Negro doffing his hat and being polite in the gutter. I saw a picture of it." REGARDING LONG HAIR for American teenagers, McCartney exulted: "There they were in America, all getting house-trained for adulthood with their indisputable principle of life: short hair equals men; long hair equals women. Well, we got rid of that convention for them. You can't kid me that the last generation were any more moral than we are. They hid it better." Said John Lennon, the cow-eyed Beatle who rides around London in a Rolls-Royce often mistaken for Queen Elizabeth's: "I want the money Just to be rich. The only other way of getting it is to be born rich. If you have money, that's power without having to be powerful. I often think that It's all a big conspiracy, that the winners are the government and people like ns who've got the money. That joke about keeping the workers ignorant is still true." Ringo Starr, the big-nosed Beatle who has a fancy bar built in honor of his mother who was a barmaid, had least to say. But he expressed disgust about "fighting over . atom bombs and doing nothing about famine and that" If another atomic bomb is dropped he wants to know where it will be so he can go and stand there. n It will be interesting to see what the disc jockeys and the breast-beaters do with these latest verbal bombs by the Beatles.
