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ry eth Baba Pa aly. WY 1090-25857 "We are here Tor action, for the business of winning the peace. So I will take but a few moments. "The hope of the world hes been slerted fo the opportunity for peace afforded by the proposal for e cease-fire in Korea coming from JACOB NALIK, U.5.8.R. representative to the United Nations. This hope also stirred in our hearta with the introduction of the Johnson Resolution im the U.8. Senete, which recognized the futility of continuing the carnage of the past year and proposed to do the only aensible thing about it-~ stop fighting and atart making peace. ~ "In addition, our civil liberties are one of the ~~~ ‘mein casualties of the war, as is already clearly evident. . The First Amendment today lies temporarily gutted as a result - of the validation of the Smith Act and the jailing of the Communist dissenters from American foreign policy, Wo other dlssenter, whatever his politics, can feel safe in the exercise of the historic american right to eriticize and complain so long as the Smith Act stands on the statute books and the Supreme Court decision remains unreversed, "In my thinking this is @ peace question, for the inevitable conclusion of these persecutions, should they be allowed to continue, will be the slienecing not only of the Communiste but indeed of ali Americane whe subscribe to the principles of the New Deal and the “oosevelt grand design for peace through friendship with the socialist nations. "Just ae in Europe, on the eve of World War II, we ase today in America the persecution of political dissenters eoupled with mounting terror against minority groups. In Europe it was the Jewish people. Here it is the Negro--with foreign language groups, the Jewish people, Mexican-Americans and other minorities numbered alse among the victims. on "we here in America have the central responsibility to build, as the peoples of Europe and Asia have built, ; powerful movement representative of every section of our country, which wil aevelop from the cease-fire in Horea into a genuine and lasting posace--aend freedom--fer 411 mankind. . "These are some of the reasons I am for peace, reasons which grow out of my life, my travels, my sxperiences -13-