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BS 1909-35595 “The people of the world are forgsettine about the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Everyone knows that U. S. aircraft are flying over Vietnam daily, killing and slaughtering people and yet students are calmly attending school and others are commuting to work as usual. There is something wrong with the present system of education. Education is drawing us away from the present and taking us somewhere. Educa- tion must enable a person to experience the hardship, sentiment and animosity that is carried on ina foreign land. One does not have to kill a person in @ nearby area. A section of the great machinery will faithfully do the killing. Why do Americans Support the Vietnam war under such a situation? They are not taking such a calm attitude towards criticizing communism, but are very much frichtened and do murder on impulse. Then they give a reason to the murdering. The nation is clever in finding a reason. A person in such a frame of mind will not be moved even when people are murdered. However, there is a movement to oppose war. A minority group of people have been continually shouting for justice. Demonstrations of non-cooperation with war have been conducted in various areas by people centering on the intellectuals. Mr. FEATHERSTONE is the first person to be sent overseas for this cause. It is necessary to have the support of the entire world in order to change the policy of America. It is necessary for the Japanese people to look to the past. This will become the great center of the peace movement. All of the Japanese people are against the Vietnam war. By Showing this energy in activities and having the Japanese, Americans, all Buddhists from South Vietnam and the people from various lands cooperate, we may perhaps be able to stop the war.” Following the lecture, the symposium was opened for questioning. In answer to a question, "What are the limitations of protest?", Professor ZINN answered, “It is the difference between a fascist and a free nation. Ina free nation, a person can say what he wants to but it is also up to the government to ignore what one demands. It is free to go on a teach-in, but JOHNSON will talk to the people of the entire country by television. To criticize the nation's policy in a capitalist country means that one will risk his job. ~8-