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— . be ea oe * . & wy ( Oo OU M. A. Jones to DeLoach RE: "JUST FRIENDS AND BRAVE ENEMIES" BY ROBERT F. KENNEDY we were abusing "a legitimate political party." Kennedy found it was generally accepted in Japan and elsewhere that we had "outlawed" the Communist Party. Tr. £. et ¢h.n8 T. iA A +h TWTeiétna4 Chat 4 dalfiantt t a2 —_ He found that Iwai considered the United States imperialistic in connection with Cuba and Laos but would not so term the Soviet Union and Communist China based on what hapnenel in Tibet and Hungary. He also found that the Japanese were looking fon America as it was 100 years ago and not as it is today. Cee a a ae CHAPTER 5: "THE PEOPLE SPEAK" In Kyoto a meeting was arranged with a group of labor leaders zollowed by a conference with students from universities and colleges. Only eight youngsters showed up at the conference and announced formally that the six communists had decided to boycott the meeting. Kennedy discussed the Democratic system and concluded that a Democratic system gives freedom but it also poses obligations and |responsibaites, He felt this was a point many of the students of Japan had nct yet come to understand. One boy was disturbed because the world was divided in two and stated he felt Berlin was a key point in the East-West struggle. Another young man asked why our government, while defending the cause of freedom, had friendly relations with such countries as South Korea or Taiwan or Spain. He also wondered how we could expect the United Nations to preserve peace and at the same time exclude a major world power such as Communist China and he asked about our role in the Cuban incident. CHAPTER 6: "ANOTHER FIELD, ANOTHER GRASSHOPPER; ANOTHER POND, ANOTHER FISH" ee Kennedy next went to Indonesia where he found the mood far different - from that in Japan. In all the time spent in Japan he had not seen one Japanese soldier or sailor but from the moment they arrived in Indonesia they were aware that it is a nation under arms as there were soldiers everywhere. Here toothe atmosphere was rather restrictive and it was harder to get to the people. Foremost { in the minds of the Indonesians was our failure to stand with them in the matier of Dutch occupation of West New Guinea. Poverty and hunger was everywhere and it was plain that despite tremendous natural resources this nation is under dev veloped | and very poor. Kennedy was to deliver a lecture to the student senate and the faculty of law at the University of Indonesia and upon his arrival a tall skinny young man threw a piece of hard fruit which struck him on the bridge of the nose. A portion of Kennedy's speech is set forth and he indicates that while there was no -4-