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ra fe amen ere e a eee tener a a FHT es ete nn, ee ee ee) See een ct ee erie PD-r50 (Rew, 716-63) — > 1) FLANAGAN ice Conimitice}, in Bratislava, Czechosiovakia, with the Crechosiovakian Peace Committee as host. The ngs, arranged by David Dellinger, editor of Libera- tion, brough: toze: i Americans generally rep- 0: the “New Lei ¢ members of the Ziberition Fron: and eleven citizens of the : . History may record . ni meeting in that it involved the ieinamese io attend a conference ce the Geneva Conlercnce of ime a group of NLF Tepresenintives had sat down with a group of Americans. * ference sessions were largely devotes 10 the a of forvaal statements, professions of mutual nesccre poGe, RELe of wepaper, city ane sicte,) -tions for further discussion. The NLF. placed major 4 tmaphasis in its statement on the historical devclopment* ~ ; of the Froat’s struggle for independence and the quatity, 1 of life in its “liberated zones," while the North Viewmam, * ese focused their presentation around their country's ive and imaginative arrangements to cope with p.655,656-"Friend: — Journal” Philadelphia, Pa. extiens. stepped-up American bo:nbing. The Aincrican delega- ° tion presented an assessment of the effects (potitical, social, and economic) of the war in the United Staues and an explanation of the role of various constituencies active in the 2ntiwar movement. : : ° pave: 12/15/67 Edition: VOL.13,No,24 : + Y . Author: ROSS Flanagan However, it was the humanity of the Vietnamese dele- . | eau: Frances Willii Ration that spoke most forcefully to me. There was Vu ‘Tithe: Browin Thi Hao, a twenty-year-old schoolteacher who had ree ceived two hunczed wounds from a U.S. antipersonnel : . bo:nb while on her way to school. There was the colar film . Character: of life in North Victnam before the bombing began—a . . . or heart-rending conrrasi to the more recent filns of the war. Clossification: “There was the cable that arrived during the conference 40 inform one of the inemibers of the North Vicinamese ecieguiion that six of his childrei had been injured in an . . . ait raid. So much carnage and misery—and yet, far from -being brutalized and bitter, the Vietnamese I met secmed to have more understanding and Jess hatred of Americans .. - than hac some meaibers of our US. delegation. 77 “o< / / gS g Ai Bratislava we were given a clear understanding of Vietnamese atzitudes toward Friends’ diverse relief pro- ENTRY grens. OF particular isterest were the remarks of Madame Submitting Olice: {Being Investigated