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SEE AB ee a te eee ot nee fe aA mmr ee ci debe on Rt Pere eer ee eo - poe ape ere rie? nL aa ie cm enya rerr hariratr ra pS h R sSnePS Pp-i5t (Rew. F+16-63) . ~ ~ tions for PR eerrrer | (euet Clip — ¢ a eze to particin three Friends (with was ty pri nie in Sepiember, as one of Bronson Clark and Russcil onnssi: Of die Acherican Friends Service Commitice), in a week-long conference in Eratitnva, Czechosiovakia, ‘with the Crechosiovakian Peace Committee as host. The meciings, arrange; by Davi id Dellinger, editor of Libera- tion, b TOMER tozether soviy-one Americuns generally Tep- reser.iaiive of “New Lett" whh eight members of the Naiuonal Liberation Front and eleven citizens of the Deinocraiic Republic of Viemnam. History may record his a5 zg highly significa ni meeting in that it involved the sarzesi umber miése io alitnd a conference ouside their country since the Geneva Conlercnce of 1954 and also represenied the firs: time a group of NLF Tepresenintives had sat down The conference sessions were largely devoied io the Preseniaiion of forvaal statements, professions of mutual admiration, and the enumeration and exchange of ques- further discussion. The NEF placed major exaphusés in its statement on the historical devclopment* of the Front’ § strupie for independence and the quality, vof life in its “liberated zones," while the North Viewam ese focuscd their presentation around their country's extensive and imapinative arrangements 10 cope with “ ut ” on tar.) dee stepped-up American bombing. The Ainerican delega- © ricr presented an assessment of the elects (political, social, and economic} of the war in the United States and an explanation of the role of various constituencies active in the antiwar movement. However, it was the humanity of the Vietnamese dele- Fatina shat spoke most forcefully to me. There was Vu “Tii Hao, a twenty-year-old schoolteacher who had re- ceived two hunered wounds from a U.S. antipersonnel bomb while on her way to school. There was the color film of life in North Vietnam before the bombing began—a Acari-rending contrast to dhe more recent filns of the war. “There was the cable that arrived during the conference 40 inform one of the meniber of the North Vicinamese eoeguiion that six of his children had been injured in an 2% raid. So much carnage and misery—and yet, far froin -being brunalized and bitter, the Vietnamese I met seemed ‘to have more understanding and Jess hatred of Americans . than hac some members of our U.S. delegation. At Brauslave we were given a clear understanding of Vietnamese atzritudes toward Friends’ diverse relief pro- grams. OF purticular interest were the remarks of Madame grenis. = ping in Sacce Eclow) (ind.ccte poge, nane of Hewspeper, city anc sicte.) Sith a proup of Ameri cans. ° ™ p.655,656-"#riends _. Journal” - Philadelphia, Pa. . Eu:tion:-VOL.L3,No.24 Author: ROSS Fl anagan raitor. Frances Willi: gine: Browin Character: - Or Cicssification: Submitting Olice: Ci Being Investigated