6,000 AT TORONTO TEACH-IN RIP AGGRESSION IN VIET

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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 20, 2013
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• Publication Date: October 17, 1965
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OCTOBER 17, 1965
at Toronto
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Te
p Aggression
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By WILLIAM ALLAN
TORONTO, Canada ? Six thousand attending a teach-in here Oct. 8-10 applauded
appeals for peace and against intervention in new nations. The main fire of many speak-
ers centered on U.S. intervention- in Vietnam and the Dominican Republic.
The three days discussions
were carried by the Canadian
networks here and by scores of
U.S. stations.
The students sat in an audi-
torium which is a hockey rink
in the winter. The platform, blaz-
ing with TV lights, was ringed
by 50 reporters from 10 nations.
The opening saw V. N. Ne-
krasov, chief foreign editor of
Pravda, debate with Z. K. Brze-
zinski, of Columbia University.
on "Revolution and Ideological
Conflict."
Nekrasov, speaking in Eng-
lish, challenged the imperialist
nations to an ideological com-
petition undet. conditions of
peaceful coexistence.
He attacked the U.S. inter-
vention policy, declaring that
where people are seeking to
establish 'their own form of gov-
ernment, they must not be de-
prived of the right to change
the social order and shake off
colonial rule.
A SCIENCE
He said Marxism was a. way
Of thinking, a science, and not
a set of unchangeable rules, and
that the practical foreign policy
of the Soviet Union was to sup-
port national liberation but in
no case to impose it.
The possibilities of peaceful
transition to Socialism in the
world is growing, he added.
EVADES ISSUES'
Prof. Brzezinski. director of
the center for ?Communist
search at Columbia, attempich
to evade the issues of intcrven-
tion, as exemplified by the ruby
of the CIA, troops in Vietnam
and the Dominican Republic.
and the use of the Big Stick
imperialist policy in many coun-
tries.
He began, instead, with the
line that the U.S. revolution and
the Soviet one were in a-similar
vein, and that the Soviet Union's
revolution was becoming "ir-
revelant," therefore they should
unite against the Chinese rev-
olution, which was a violent one.
Nekrasov ,retorted that there
was a basic difference between
the Socialist revolution in Russia
and the American revolution.
The difference was that the
ownership of the means of pro-
duction was in the hands of the
Soviet pcopfe, while this wasn't
the case in the U.S.
He also said Socialist coun-
tries (lid not want any inter-
ference icom outside sources in
tactical differences that may
occur, between them.
Brzezinski admitted U.S. in-
tervention in the Dominican Re-
public was wrong, but he stayed
away from any similar criticism
about intervention in Vietnam.
Instead he said the U.S., bY
going- into Vielnapt with troops
had prevented an international
"conflagration." This brought
derisive boos from the audience.
He said he would bet the
Soviet Unic,n would .drop its
program for Communism by
1984, and that by 1980 there ,
would nut be any Communist
Party there. Nekrasov said 'he
A ? ?
would take that bet.
Other speakers included Sir
Patrick Gordon Walker,'Iormer,
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British foreign secretary; Phuong
Margain, secretary general of
the Cambodian Cabinet; Nguyen
Phu Doc, ativior to the South
Vietnam UN delegate; Esilarl
Sr4411.41441424, of the University
Californib, Berkeley; .,in
Wo th.. Negro newspapiim--11-,
ro flew in from Prague; ,Lord-.
Fenner.:Brockway; Roger Gara- '
udy, Momper of the political
bureau, French . Communist
Party, and Ali Mazuri,
Uganda. -
DR. JAGAN _
President Kennedy had proposed
as a way to help Latin American
nations.
Lockward saki the role of
some U.S. labor representatives
in his country and others in
Latin America was a dirty one.
He said they come equipped with
American dollars from Wash-
ington and start what they call
Institutes for Department of Free
Labor, which are vehicles to
cd.., bring corruption into the Latin
American trade union movement.
He said most Americans don't
know that out of the 200 million
people in Latin America, two-
thirds go to bed hungry every
day and most of them don't have
a bed to sleep in but have to lie
?on dirt floors.
The teach-in on Latin ?America
heard Dr. Cheddi Jagan, former
Prime Minister of British
Guiana; Andres Lockward, of
the Social Christian Party of the
Dominican Republic, and Adolph
Berle, of the U.S. State Depart-
ment.
Jagan said the Alliance ior-
, Progress was a means for U.S.
capitaligm to extend its grip
on -Latin America.
'hI seven countries, military
dictators in Latin America had
seized power with the help of
the Alliance for Progress, and
this did not include the Domin-
ican Republic and 'Argentina, he
said.
He said in his British Guiana
his party had won three general
elections since 19-53. After the
first one, his government was
ousted by British battleships in
37 days. --
Despite garrymandering of the
constituency he won again in
.1956 and 1962. This time inter-
' The Dominican struggle was
led by the Bosch Party and the
Christian Social Party, of fwhich
he is vice-president, he said. It
-was a question of justice ?and
freedom from starvation, he de-
clared, and Communism' was not
the issue, but was used as a
smokescreen for the U.S. in-
? vasion.
t Berle dismissed the charges of
;Dr. Jagan and Lockward as not
!being e'factual." He said that
when he was ambassador in
Brazil, in the North, he didn't
see anyone die of starvation,
though "they don't live well."
; He said the reason for inter-
vention. in the Dominicail Re-
public was Russian promiges of
aid to the revolution, via the
Cuban radio. This was met with:
boos from the audience.
'vention by the U.S. government !
and the CIA drove, his party and
government out of. power.
It is. ironic, he said, that in,
1962 he was doing exactly what
Margain of Cambodia got an
ovation with his dramatic pre-
sentation.
--The Saigon regime, he said, is
poisoned by depandency on for-
eign ,aid. The only intervention
4here, he declared, has been
American.
Cambodia proposes that there
be no foreign- military forces in
South Vietnani,and, that a gen-
eral election be held-in the next
two years, with reunification of
the country to be worked out by
the Vietnamese themselves.
Worthy said that in his dis-
cussion with North Vietnamese
and NLF leaders who were visit-
ing Prague, he learned there was
little prospect of negotiations
while bombings continued, but
they did not specifically say they
wanted the elimination of all
U.S. forces before negotiating a
cease-fire.
He said he hoped the Negro
movement in the U.S. would join
more vigorously in the struggle
for peace and for a cease-fire in
Vietnam.
Mike Myerson, American Du-
Bois Clubs national leader, just
returned froin,..Vietriain, was
present, but Scalapino said
would not speak if Myeison wag
allowed to speak. The arrange-
ments group was forced to give
in to Scalapino, otherwise they
would not have had anyone to
present the U.S. position. This
undemocratic act of Scalapino
did. not sit well with many stu-
dents here, who booed him when
he spoke. .
Scalapino fumed at what he
termed _Worthy's "bringing in of
racial issues," and then gave a-
30-minute anti- Communist
speech.
Duc, speaking for the Saigon
regime, followed a similar red--
baiting.. line, being 'received
mostly in, cold, polite silence.
Night seminars, attended by
students, were marked by oppo-
sition to U.S. foreign policy.
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