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American Friends Service Committee — Part 17
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QUAKER ACTION GROUP .
“the following three points as negotiable:
ZIETLOW ex iatmee that ior hin, the w2ssien of
the Phoenix represented & religious non-violent, @ixeet-
action project attenrtinre to rclitve suffering, create
positive human commu.icetion, and protest the "United
States war policy in Vietnam."
ZIETLOW said the North Vietnamese, too, did not want
the Phoenix to enter Haiphong harbor. —
“The North Vietnamese Re@ Cross had cabled us saying
they appreciated our concern and effort, but don't come,
ZIETIOW said, The North Vietnamese sent them a telegram
saying “Strongly Advise Do Not, Repeat Do Not" sail into
the Gulf of Tonkin, because U. S. bombing of the area was
too intense for safety, ZIETLOW said, He spent three weeks
convincing the Vietnamese that the ship should enter Haiphong
harbor, he said,
ZIETLOW, who spent three years working for the Buffalo,
N. Y., Council of churches, and one year with the National
Council of Churches, said he came’ away from North Vietnam
convinced that the only way the war can be stopped is if
the United States ceases bombing the North. He said he ©
talked with Foreign Minister Nguyen Dui Thrinh, as well as
dozens of other North Vietnamese.
Further, he noted, the’ North Vietnamese do not consider
--Théy do not accept and will not accept the idea
of @ permanently divided Vietnam. ‘
+-They insist that Communists must be allowed to par-
ticipate in, although not dominate, South Vietnamese govern-
mental processes, . . . :
o-They insist that no U. S, military bases shall
remain on any Vietnamese soil - North or South.
ZIETLOW said that upon his return from Nerth Vietnam,
he conferred with five members of the U. S. Senate Foreign
Relations Committee, who told hifi President JOHNSON's
policy is to demand each of the above items which the North
Vietnamese say they cannot acrept.
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