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: . . 7 1 "Those in whose hands rests the safety of the human family should realize ;. sss thet et this critical moment their consciences arc bound by the gravest oblie ; > gation, With their ccanteyntry, with the world, God end history. b2fore their minds, they should carefully exeninz their noral record and obligations, re~ membering that nen will esteea their manory if they will have followed this exhortation with wisdom, We cx min Godts nrz2 to ste rWorse then wer is the belief in the Inevitability of war. There is no such thing as inevitable wer. And certeinly the wer in Vietnam was not inevitable. It came ebout as a fellure of vision, es a result of political cliches, of thinking by analogies, of false comparisons, of blindness to the uniqueness of en extraordinery constellation, This wer will not end by cropping bigser and better bombs, by a merciless use of force, Vietnam is primarily a human -\, problem, a humen emergency, human anquish, There are no military solutions to human problems; violence and bloodshed are no enswer to human anguish," Rabbi Abrehem Heschel, Jewish Theological Seminary "We believe that if the United States follows a unilateral policy in Vietnam, no conceivable victory there can compensate for the distrust and hatred of the United Stetes that is being generated each day throughout the world because we - are seen as a predominantly white nation using our overwhelming military strength . to kill more and more Asians,® General Board of the National Council of Churches that now surround them, our people on all sides would ery out in protest, Indeed the very stones of our churches would ery out. They would ery out because : we sacrifice young Americans in an unjust war and because of our brutel destruce tion of helpless people in North and South Vietnam, Our leaders might have = begun our intervention with good intentions but now they are carried along by !@ Pope Peul VI “If we could see ourselves and our policies stripped of the official illusions