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. On Torture _ . “Terror is used for interrogation, as propaganda, as punish- not too late to stop the war and save South Viemam from : Declasstty @PMPADR,,. 19-7 - per cent of the people.) __ —s ee ek ee AN AF°EAL TO THE CONSCIENCE OF AMERIC FOR PEAC EE WITH HONO eget, IN VIETNAL UPT Photo Iz IS NOT EASY for Americans to believe that the mess in person knowledgeable in Indochinese affairs who did notag . ™ Vietnam is as bad as ft is, : that had elections been held at the time of the fighting [195 The news is of military coups and-demonstrations by the Possibly 80% of the population would have voted for the Co Vi ; of. Munist Ho Chi Minh as their leader rather than Chief of St etnamese people against the U. S.-backed government; of Bao Dai.” (Mandate For C 372 ; the torture of 13-year-old boys and the spraying of poisons : . or Change, p. ) from the air to destroy crops and livestock; of the papaly. There BHI have been ne elections; press and radio are ec . bombing of native villages and the herding of civilians into . sored, and political opposition is seriously restricted. stockaded villages, which ane essentially enmeentmtior coder dn conhinee, he sir, War aington' is cbryang to pica ‘emps. The news is of military defeat and senseleas deaths. what the New York Times called **the facade of civilian go tea MUSEr AMERICANS are ured to thinking that te United, ment,” which for propaganda reasons, i intoped States stands for freedom, democracy and peace —and background.” (January 7 3965) apo COP eae that if the United States gets involved in a forcign war it is- ee re, "on the side of the people, It has taken Americans alongtime On The Supply Of Arms From to realize that this is not the case in Vietnam. Now that we . * * have the facts, we have no honorable choice but to insist oa North Vietnam And China an immediate withdrawal of American troops and an end t) “Richard Starnes wrote in the New York World Telegram | all military aid to the Saigon government, ; ;, Jamary 4, 1965: ‘There is not one shred of credible ev. '. dence that the bulkof munitions used by the Vietcong origina’ Senator Wayne Morse (Oregon) has made the issues clear: fn the north. At the outset, the Vietcong used crude home **There are no Chinese soldiers fighting in Vietnam; there | are no Russian soldiers, ‘The ¢ foreign a are Amer- made weapons, but the bulk of their arms now are capture toe in ee guntatoral war being conducted by the United Shan gre eorted from the woefully inept defenders « States in Vietnam must be stopped: and the only force that ° can stop it ia American public opinion.» _— On The Menace Of Communism | WE SUMMARIZE a few key facts from the daily press, Norodhom Sihanouk, head of the government in nefghborin | “" in case you missed any of these: . - Cambodia, has stated: “The more the Americans fight Com : - “. ; : Munism in the way they are fighting it in South Vietnam, th: « more they'll spread Communiam over the region. It is stil “ment and as revenge... Chances of surviving field inter-. complete Communization.”? (William Worthy, York, Pa,. rogation are often extremely poor, Death can come for Gazette and Datily, Dec, 31, 1964) . oo ae prisoners under the tracks of armored vehicles, by decapt- at It may well be that some form of Communism will come ti tation or by bleeding to death after both hands have been . ” _chopped off or by a bullet through the head. It's all paxt of. Southeast Asia, whether the United States continues to inter} _. the war in South Vietoam.’” (Long Island Newsday, Oct. 26, vene or not, But in any case, the United States does not havd the right to tell the people of Southeast Asia what form of 1964) we, Etorament they muat have, any more than the Russians o : Chinese de. Continuation of the war increases the danger eT} NLipgens doc ed eh ending A Free People” domestfe totalitarianism at additional forelen interven nti being obscured frot the Ameriown people, is that thagaigon On Chieese Dowiinatian GF Vielnam ee “government has the allegiance of pitobably nd mote than 30 Both AGHA aie Seni yieyae hase alea¥s at: Ge {ree ariics in phe New Yor The United State fe allow i766 otae may # ts 7 iets. Singh prs vernon about Washington's uifimate trumy, Feshas aromas rin fietliek ee, byGenera} — the threat of wholesale escalation, Destructive alr raids r, “I hava never talked or corresponded with a could “pact Ho's wobbly economy and invite interventign a t Mo ee le