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American Friends Service Committee — Part 23

128 pages · May 08, 2026 · Document date: May 15, 1972 · Broad topic: Politics & Activism · Topic: American Friends Service Committee · 128 pages OCR'd
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ot . achure inlt (and 1- say that Fincorthe Eero Sly wer bs ee not cnty LiBlog bodies ts Viet- re “Mam: Ft fs kidhiz eouls and os —_ , * sensitivity in Amezica), i any Of 15 Dave had even a Srast tertag of rolimeus training, wa Inow that taking lifs from ! goorts. is sot our porre2 on goth. And wo must pot side hcp tho issue by accaciag the Genny of beiag just as vice ons. We must jude our- selves fiect. And the judgment is uot pleasant, for it incindes droprins prisoocrs out of boll. coplera and wepalio on Pale; cuter bonb anits and dciglents, the Green Ber- et cast and Af7 Lali, tiger cages cod the suddes terror of — ‘earpst bombing, search and : destroy missicas, censorship — . ae regression. and thousands of refugees bolind barbed wire, Nowbere aid our govero-- Heat's lack of ccascience snow up riore Plainly than yhen Carvline Rees from Etzssichueciia asked one of te U.S. negeliatcrs this ques- tion: “As SGovicioronrgh -the ne pigs I ouenmuaienieliiid OU RE Te RE re wee . . 4 1 , 1 : . r NER pee ae Ht ~~ ~ wee we ee et ee et ee Wakoow! that tho Averican “seatees store, 7 Roliee that a WS ore comedltad bo the Gi. prople Rnally resect Pyerk Ne! loving: the Gouova Accoida, . dent Juhnsua because of thd Tee the U.S, Constiivlies, tho UN. wat. And, ab I sald severs} ‘Charter, basie religious pring weeks &go whta Presiden teirles, friendskip arourd th: Nixon announced tho favasioa world, democratic govern. - of Laus, “That's the end of. Tiong, and majority rule, Aud Nixon,” so I believe thet the tI xoto that we are commilted American people will refoct - ‘also to a military dictctorship hima, too. We are a tolerant’ in Sziron, Why crust thst aoe «People, even a patient people, commitricat undormice all of ‘but enough is enough. our cthes commitments?” . ; . * Part ot the reason “y ri wa. u The negollater replied: our co-calied “national pres.” “That's your list of com- No President wards to preside mitments.” And sho replied, over 2 military defeat. But we ry ve & mT i bed oo mean tt ‘ not yours?" ence between 2 mistake and 3 _ - + 2 @efent, To adinit that we bave Ds ~ There was “another: women erred in our policy does not ; deeply on the matter ot co Hs sod tore aud’we cus science, ies Hoste’ . oe fg aCe, MTT. Acs v NG. sho do ‘gocd again. France sur- vived ber exit from Viotnam. * "Bet up on the last day when ‘The colcnial cra is over, and wo were mecting alone and we know it, Our su for do or 3 not do (such pe nich a be ended and our solcoy : ; poople’s pace trea © Vietna relinquishe : name of the conference. Some ™ oo of us were afraid of what our . communities back bome The American ‘people are would ‘say. _ ‘willing to bear some bumili- Loe ation, aven if the President a ; doesn’t think so. But there is a BT Mars.” Hostetler said,” second reason why the war have hesttsnd to speak to sou continues. And that has to do ccausze I stil have a German with our, vast asé-weeccatroled ecent, but I must tell you at I lived through the Nad ears in Germany when people said they did aot know- what was happening, Many ; who did know wero afraid to - . speak. Aficr the war wo beld 0 , . Le, a Neremburg Trial and * _ eo Judged the loaders to be guil- - . ° ty, Lut everyone was gitlty. : mote, Now we luow what is happen. Se ew ; ing in Vietnam and what we are doing to those people. We —_ . _. caroot be afraid to tae a | ; o- stand aginst this war, for we - Lo ek tae are just as yuilty as thase who - . - “+ do ths terrible things there.” wo ~ = ‘2 7 ad = L — “iil my puaie' ty the cof Om aan : thusicsm of Veblgn Valley TOS". ae resticsts sbout my gong _ ° ; ~~, . Paris for this coafercnce and y sbalar reports from clberg across the nution, I would gay - ; that the American people want peare. Even many of the . conmrcesmen who favored this oot ; . war juitially have said, in es- . “. “sence, that we should never “have potion involves cameth- ‘amet hele
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