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American Friends Service Committee — Part 23
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ot . achure inlt (and 1- say that
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ee not cnty LiBlog bodies ts Viet-
re “Mam: Ft fs kidhiz eouls and
os —_ , * sensitivity in Amezica), i any
Of 15 Dave had even a Srast
tertag of rolimeus training, wa
Inow that taking lifs from !
goorts. is sot our porre2 on
goth. And wo must pot side
hcp tho issue by accaciag the
Genny of beiag just as vice
ons. We must jude our-
selves fiect. And the judgment
is uot pleasant, for it incindes
droprins prisoocrs out of boll.
coplera and wepalio on
Pale; cuter bonb anits
and dciglents, the Green Ber-
et cast and Af7 Lali, tiger
cages cod the suddes terror of
— ‘earpst bombing, search and
: destroy missicas, censorship —
. ae regression. and thousands
of refugees bolind barbed
wire,
Nowbere aid our govero--
Heat's lack of ccascience
snow up riore Plainly than
yhen Carvline Rees from
Etzssichueciia asked one of
te U.S. negeliatcrs this ques-
tion: “As SGovicioronrgh -the
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loving: the Gouova Accoida, . dent Juhnsua because of thd Tee
the U.S, Constiivlies, tho UN. wat. And, ab I sald severs}
‘Charter, basie religious pring weeks &go whta Presiden
teirles, friendskip arourd th: Nixon announced tho favasioa
world, democratic govern. - of Laus, “That's the end of.
Tiong, and majority rule, Aud Nixon,” so I believe thet the
tI xoto that we are commilted American people will refoct -
‘also to a military dictctorship hima, too. We are a tolerant’
in Sziron, Why crust thst aoe «People, even a patient people,
commitricat undormice all of ‘but enough is enough.
our cthes commitments?” .
; . * Part ot the reason “y ri
wa. u
The negollater replied: our co-calied “national pres.”
“That's your list of com- No President wards to preside
mitments.” And sho replied, over 2 military defeat. But we
ry ve & mT i bed
oo mean tt ‘ not yours?" ence between 2 mistake and 3 _
- + 2 @efent, To adinit that we bave Ds
~ There was “another: women erred in our policy does not ;
deeply on the matter ot co Hs sod tore aud’we cus
science, ies Hoste’ . oe
fg aCe, MTT. Acs v NG. sho do ‘gocd again. France sur-
vived ber exit from Viotnam. *
"Bet up on the last day when ‘The colcnial cra is over, and
wo were mecting alone and we know it, Our su for
do or 3 not do (such pe nich a be ended and our solcoy : ;
poople’s pace trea © Vietna relinquishe :
name of the conference. Some ™ oo
of us were afraid of what our .
communities back bome The American ‘people are
would ‘say. _ ‘willing to bear some bumili-
Loe ation, aven if the President a
; doesn’t think so. But there is a BT
Mars.” Hostetler said,” second reason why the war
have hesttsnd to speak to sou continues. And that has to do
ccausze I stil have a German with our, vast asé-weeccatroled
ecent, but I must tell you
at I lived through the Nad
ears in Germany when
people said they did aot know-
what was happening, Many ;
who did know wero afraid to - .
speak. Aficr the war wo beld 0 , . Le,
a Neremburg Trial and * _ eo
Judged the loaders to be guil- - . °
ty, Lut everyone was gitlty. : mote,
Now we luow what is happen. Se ew ;
ing in Vietnam and what we
are doing to those people. We —_ . _.
caroot be afraid to tae a | ; o-
stand aginst this war, for we - Lo ek tae
are just as yuilty as thase who - . - “+
do ths terrible things there.” wo ~ = ‘2 7
ad = L —
“iil my puaie' ty the cof Om aan :
thusicsm of Veblgn Valley TOS". ae
resticsts sbout my gong _ ° ; ~~, .
Paris for this coafercnce and
y sbalar reports from clberg
across the nution, I would gay - ;
that the American people
want peare. Even many of the .
conmrcesmen who favored this oot ; .
war juitially have said, in es- . “.
“sence, that we should never
“have potion involves cameth-
‘amet hele
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