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IC00 0 18 13 9 . c A s in massivc ~1emorrs~r;rrions of rlic past, thc mid-November leadership role is being playecl by the dcdicatcd pcaccniks, coniniun- ists, and sympathizers who have, thanks to American news media, become known national pcrsonalitics. tee tu End the W a r in Vietnam, o lineal dcsccndanl of A. J. hlustc's Novcniber 8 Mobilization Comiiittce for Pcace in-Vietnam, was t o r n at a Glevcland meeting last summer. canfercncd was issucd in late spring and 900 persons attended. Assorted coiiimunists, wcll-known sympatliizcrs and radical pacifists fo riricd the leadership. bly forinulatcd at tlic Cicvcland'mcating too. Senator Paul Fannin of Arizona has stated, kowcvcr, that Novcnrbcr 15 Mobilization Day was concocted last June at a communist coqtrollccl World Assembly for Pcacc in East Bc rliii, Quilt- probably, sympathy dcnionstrations sclicclulcd in other countries inclucling EngIaiicl, Francc, and Germany w e r e planned at thc East Derlin .conclave. Fannin has cited two incmbcrs of the New Mobe steering xoninrittcc who attcncled tlrc June mccting. Barbara Bick, a leadcr of thc'hcavily infiltrated Women's Strike for Peace and sponsor o f Lhc prcdecc'ss&"llOld Mobe" and Irving Sarnoff, menibcr of tlic allcgctl wniniunist f&nt, tlrc Los Aiigclcs Pcacc Action Council, and an iclcntil'icd imembcr of tlic Communist Party. Thc New Mobilization Coiiimit- The call for a national anti-war Tlrc planncd demonstrations of 13-15 Novenibcr wc re proba- * They arc f . . d Tlrc Novciiibcr 15 dcnionstrations, the chilil of thc New hrlobc with the Trotskyile Studcnt Mobc in thc inid-wifc role is nothing more and nothing less 'than a pioclcrn mnnifcstatiun of Lhc classic "united front"-operation in tlic old lcft padition. Prcfcrring to call itself an Umbrella, shcltcring adniinis trativcly, the sixty odd, protcst prone, national and regional lcftist and radical pacifist organizations, the New Mobe'a planned dcnronstrations have tlic wholchcarted support, with the exception of so,me SDS factions and the Young Peoples Socialist League, of all forces f r o m tlic Aincrican cxtreine left. The YPSL, the Norman Thomas breed, believe that the Novombcr action leadership is inore committed to a Communist victory than to peace in Vietnam. The phil- osophically-oriented SDScrs hold that Vietnam is merely a calculated integral of American foreign'policy, that can only bc correcled by vio- lently overthrowing tlic nation's political and social institutions through extra-cstablishmont tcchnique. They view peaccful mass protcst m a r c h e s as playing thc cstablielrmcnt game. Tircrcfurc, only tliosc in tlrc ranks of SDS who subscribe to a culture of political masochism through violcnce and wish not to be conlincd by philosophy can be expected to participate '. *Washington Report, published by tho Ame;icam Security Council, 1 21 October 1969, page 2. 8 1: