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Demonstrations Protesting United States Intervention In Viet Nam : ; The speakers at the rally were as follows: Dr. Harold Taylor and Ossie Davis, Co-Chairmen of the rally; Canon L. ‘John Collins, Seint Paul Cathedral, London, England; M L. Thorne of South Dakota who was reported to have lost his son in Viet Nam; University of Chicago Professor of Political Science Hans J. Morgenthau; Rabbi Eugene Lipman; Dagmar Wilson of the Women Strike For Peace; Bayard Rustin, organizer of the 1963 civil rights March on Washington; Mrs. Martin Luther King, wife of Martin Luther King, President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; Norman Thomas, noted Socialist leader; United States. Senator Wayne Morse; Dr. Benjamin Spock, noted pediatrician end Co-Chairman of the National Committee for a Sare Nuciear Policy; and Joan Baez, a folk singer. Senator Morse was critical of the record of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the White House and the Departments of Defense and State on Viet Nam. He stated that foreign policy should be left to the people. He said that the United States had not brought peace to South Viet Namenor had halted the advance of Communism there, but by its tactics, it was driving Asians by the millions into the arms of Communism. Whee cee He advocated that the United States seek an international ‘police force, through the Svutheast Asia Treaty Organization or the United Nations (un) or with an African-Asian peace force es suggested by Prime Mi:ister Lal Bahadur Shastri of India. Professor Morgenthau asserted that the United States could no more contain Communism in Asia by arming South Viet Nam and Thailand than Communist China could contain United States power in North America by arming Nicaragua and Costa Rica. He suggested a program for stopping the conflict, that included a proposal for recognition of the political and cultural predominance of Communist China on the Asian mainland. Dr. Benjamin Spock criticized the FBI, the House 2.