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(Rev. 10-1-64) bic V Broadcas By Roger Protz LONDON, Dee. 4 — Into the cloistered atmosphere of Oxford University, for centuries one of England's twin bastions of educa- tion for the sons of the upper crust, me the voice of American Negro volt, Last night Malcolm X was T\ ! foie a e of the guest speakers in the end-of- term debate in the Oxford Gnion, The black nationalist leader from the U.S. was speaking in support of the motion set for the debate — the now famous state _! ment by Barry Goldwater: “Ex- v tremism in the defense of liberty is no vice, moderation in the pur- ; suit of justice is no virtue.” { The student audience, which in- 1 cluded many Africans and Indians, : gave the American visitor 2 long iN ovation for a stirring and vitriolic % speech that cut through the tradi- p tinal stuffed-shirt atmosphere of . + Oxford Union, which is closely 4 eled on the House of Com- mons — complete with banal re- partee and “honorable members.” Scotch Poet Speaking with Malcolm X for the motion was the Scottish poet, Hugh MacDiarmid, who is a cult ous mixture of Scottish nationiil- ist, Communist Party member atid Anglophobe, He gave a somewhat clinical appraisal of the need for determined action by the people to win freedom and democracy. Ranged against them were Humphrey Berkeley, a Tory mem- ber of the House of Commons, and Lord Stonham, a “socialist” mem- of the House of Lords. As they early had the most to lose by xtreme action by the masses, they ration. It was left to Malcolm X to stt e debate alight with an imp. med plea for the American Ne- and the oppressed and ex- ited throughout the world. e began by attacking the latest perialist intervention in the ngo which had precipitated yet ther round of bloodshed and ery. He was particularly sea in his denunciation of the pres ich had turned the event intd. ther excuse for racist attack “savages” and “primitives.” . s4nge gots ams, The Motion Torning coeacifiaslls ta aUrning Specilicany tO the m 1 tion set for the debate, he sai 4 “i don't believe in any form of uz justified extremism, but when man is exercising extremism in de- fense of liberty for human beings I do not consider that a vice. “When a man is a moderate in defense of justice for human beings 1 say he is a sifner.” He spoke of the day black men would come to realize that they were justified in taking uncom- Promising steps and any means necessary to bring about their freedom, — “I believe that the day when they dco, many more whites have more respect for them. The will be more whites than there now on their side with this wish washy, love-thine-enemy approach , ~— Tolson Belmont Mohr : they have been using up to nowf’ Ae concluded with the famots sage from Hamiet: “To be, or ng to be: that is the questiof, Waether "tis nobler in the mind toll suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them?** To thunderous applause, he de elared that the latter choice was the only possible one if people are to gain their emancipation. The debate was televised on the BEC’s main national network and must have been seen by at least ten million viewers. Lest they shquld be indectrinated by M colm X's forceful arguments, th brcadcasting company ushered tw of its leading commentators refute his “wildly exaggerated picture of the U.S, The administration in the U.S, they said, was fully geared to pushing through civil-rights legisla- tion. And, with that hypocritical paternalism which is” the hall- mark of liberal Englishmen, they solemnly agreed that Malcolm X could not be altogether blamed fdr his views. He had had an “unfo.+ tunate” upbringing and extremista { breeds extremism! is a@shington Post and ply Times Herald The Washington Daily News The Evening Star New York Herald Tribune New York Journal-American New York Mirror New York Dally News New York Post The New York Times The Worker The New Leader The Wal! Street Journal _ The Natlonal] Observer | (686- 399 $25. Io NOT RECORDEC | (26 DEC 29 1984 (i a an De pltart® eee ee Qe