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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700200012-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 29, 2004
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: March 22, 1965
• Content Type: OPEN

CONGRESSIONAL RECORD
Approved For Release 2005 MARCH
Uttanimou4 COnserlt that a 1Ctter fi'G1Y1 the long run than a remote jungle war tha
Dr. Milnor Alexander, legislative seers- could only be won by the most lnhuman?mass
tary of the Women's Internat!onal slaughter of civilians in history.
although I
wanted to say that
Mainly I
,
League for Peace and Freedom, written ,
realize that It must be lonely for you to be a
under date of'March 19, 1965, addressed voice crying In the wilderness, some of us propaganda nature of the white paper."
to me, be printed at this point in the thank you nevertheless for your courage and, In my opinion, it makes it perfectly clear
RECORD. The letter contains a resolution clear thinking. that it was a very unfortunate paper be-
passed by the organization, calling for a Cordially, cause of the chain of inaccuracies to
cessation of our warmaking policies in FRANK M. WHITINa, which this administration has attached
South Vietnam and seeking to work, Mr. MORSE. Mr. President, I ask its name.
through international tribunals for a set unanimous consent that an editorial There being no objection, the editorial
tiement of the disputes in accordance published in the San Francisco Chronicle was ordered to be printed in the RECORD,
with the procedures of international law. of March 3, 1965, entitled, "Where the as follows:
There being no, objection,, the letter White Paper Is Silent" be printed at this TIME FOR DIPLOMACY
was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, point in the RECORD. The American escalation of the war in
as follows: There being no objection, the editorial Vietnam has so far produced a number of
MARCH 10, 1985. 'Was ordered to be printed in the, RECORD, favorable political consequences. It has ex-
Senator ERNEST GRVENINO, as, follows: acerbated the Sino-Soviet conflict. It has
Senator WAYNE MORSE, [From the San Francisco (Calif.) Chronicle, produced the first dim signals of concession
'Senate Office Building, Mar. 3, 1965] from North Vietnam. It has forced some
Washington, D.C. of the Buddhist leaders in South Vietnam
DE&R SENATORS: The Women's Interns- WHERE THE WHITE PAPER IS SILENT off the fence and more openly into the in-.
tional League for Peace and Freedom received The U.S. white paper on Vietnam solemnly ternational political arena. Several of the
the,, last statement on the crisis in Vietnam observes in its Introductory paragraphs that 'Buddhist leaders have told the Americans
issued by Clarence E. Pickett, executive secre- it is concerned with a new kind of war "as that they would support the bombing of
tary emeritus of the American Friends Serv- yet poorly understood in most parts of the North Vietnam and a continuation of the
ice Committee, on March 3. The statement' world." war if the North did not soon agree to nego-
was dated March 1 and our national office' To that truism, it might well have tacked 'tiations on reasonable terms.
released it yesterday in connection with Clar- ; on the phrase "including the United States." We are thus approaching a point where
ence Pickett'a death. This was his response: For here at home, the events in Vietnam are ; both the international situation and the
to a wire sent to Nobel Peace Prize laureates 1 swathed in inscrutable mystery, as evidenced internal situation in Vietnam are such that
and other world leaders for a statement on' by the confusing differences of opinion our- the United States could go to the negotiating
Vietnam:. - rently being expressed in the Halls of Con- table with impressive assets. North Vlet
"The struggle in Vietnam is futile. It will , gress, and even more markedly by the be- nam is very fearful of continued American I
not really defeat the appeal of communism; wilderment of the American public, bombings which could eventually destroy he>Z
also it jeopardizes the good name of the This widespread puzzlement Is in part the industrial plant. The North is probably i
United States and sacrifices good American outcome of the persistent silence emanating fearful that it could not count either on
and Asian lives. Statesmanship by America , from the White House. It has been dispelled Russia or China in a showdown with the
calls for a commanding gesture for negotia- , but little if any by the white paper itself. United States. And even if it could cou~it
O tion and a facing of the real problem of That document labors hard to prove that the on China, it is not anxious to mortgage Its
Vietnam--poverty, insecurity, and defeat. I long and substantial U.S. commitment, in independence to Peiping as the price for such
urge a prompt turn in the direction of South Vietnam is in simple opposition to support.
peace." flagrant aggression mounted and sustained Russia is anxious to get negotiations going
Would you please insert this in the CON- by a Communst regime in the North against because a continued American escalation will
ORESSIONAL REcoRD as' another indication of : 'an independent people who want to make one day face her with a horrible choice. Ei-
the concern in this country about U.S. policy their own way in peace and freedom.,' -1 ther Moscow will have to support North Viet-
In Vietnam. Thank you very much. It speaks in plaintive detail about infiltra- nam and risk a confrontation with the United
Sincerely yours, , tion by guerrilla fighters, technicians, props- States or else the Russians will have to stand
Dr. MILNOR ALEXANDER, gandists, political organizers, and secret' by while a Communist state is being deci-
Legislative Secretary, agents, lavishly armed and equipped. But mated. In either case the Russians will lose.
i It shies completely away from the circum- Meanwhile, in South Vietnam Itself, the '
Mr. MORSE. Mr. President, f ask'' stances that are confounding the speakers Communists are repeating the same mistake
unanimous consent to have printed at in Congress and the people at home. they made in Laos. They are driving the true
this point in the RECORD a letter from' How strongly, one would like to know, do neutralist forces Into the arms of the United ,
Prof. Frank M. Whiting, of the Univer-' the South Vietnamese in general actually States. Just as the Pathet Lao drove Sou-
under yearn to make their own way in peace and vanna Phouma and Kong Le Into our camp,
city date of of Minnesota, 16, 1965. addressed to The me letter freedom. For that matter, how independent so now the Vietcong Is busy attacking
y are they? Are they, or are they not, being Buddhist monks whose only crime is to want
expresses his disapproval of the country'g- dragooned into an army and forced to fight. a genuinely neutralist Vietnam.
policies in South Vietnam. ! a battle for which they have little heart and These favorable circumstances, constituting
There being no objection, the letter no stomach? Are they hopelessly split and . as they do a certain vindication of the firm
was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, divided along religious and political and so- policy which the administration has pursued,
as follows: cial lines? Do they distrust and even despise' confront the U.S. Government with nice
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA, the leaders who, by their incessant toppling "problems of timing. The opportunity for a
Minneapolis, Minn., February 16, X965. and rebuilding of rickety governments, ap- useful dialog with Hanoi may be approaching.
Senator WAYNE L. MORSE, pear more concerned with self-aggrandize- The chance of a productive negotiation, in
ment than with national interest and demo- which the United States would not be pro-
Senate,
U.S. I
Washi cratic principles? ceeding from weakness, maybe coming more
Washington, D.C. Also unanswered is the big question that , swiftly than anticipated only a few weeks ago.'
eve DEAR what SENATOR MORSE: On this frightening
and leaps up with every new Vietcong. success To detect when that precise moment has ar-
probably may disastrous well war in become Asia a m let a major or me ex- and deep inside the territory of South Vietnam: rived is the, essence of the matter.
Are the Vietnamese, by and large, too war: The President has made an appropriate
press my appreciation and gratitude to you weary or too much intimidated to fight off response to the faint North Vietnam intima-
for having seen 'clearly and having had the ; the invaders, or, as a matter of distressing tions of a greater readiness to consider rea-
courage to warn the Nation of the dangers fact, are they actually in sympathy with the sonable solutions. He used his press confer-
Frank long ago. M. Rarig used to say, "A good theater Communists? ence Saturday to point out that the United
man should be an expert at placing himself Here are some of the matters on which States does not threaten the North Vietnam
in the other fellow's boots." Maybe this is the American people need and ardently de- regime, that It has no desire to occupy or
why, although they are making a mistake, I sire full and reliable information. It is not conquer the country, that it socks only the
can still understand why the poverty-ridden to be found in the white paper. The dogged end of aggression against South Vietnam.
people of southeast Asia turn to China rather avoidance of these matters is indeed dis- Events are a long way from a solution In
than to us. Even more alarming, I think I quieting at a time when there aro?slgns of South Vietnam, but they may not be as far'
can see what I would do if I were in control , greatly intensified American activity in Viet- as we feared from a situation in which a solu-
of Red China. I fear that I would launch nam, both North and South. tion could be profitably discussed. A climate
an all-out war with conventional weapons, IS not the hour at hand for an end to favorable to such. a beginning has been cre-
thus placing America in the horrible dilemma . President Johnson's studied silence? atod-a situation in which each side is un-
of either being defeated or else turning to comfortable with the predicament in which it'
Mr. MORSE. Mr. President, I
massive ask finds itself. At some point of mutual discom-
bombing of cities, an act which , ~t, 1'~~q~1a,~ yeQasetlre, an armis-
would win us the inflameA,3lp~s ,r?- t [? ~o!Xl`~lf~`CCtE~ shMh3i"P6sE `biY ~iL~e; R ~ RW When it does,
everyone In the world an q lead 11~xut cc~'1Y1IYY
to the final atomic holocaust. March 22, 1965, entitled "Time for Di- we should embrace it.
I realise that the alternative-is probably ?. plminacy,", ,e,prjnted' At this point in the whereas our agreement to a cessation of
a miceralilo one. A negotiated Iettlandfirlt or R>tCORYI: . 116 eti1 iffti tlfiftiti Bij~ ~ir3 till iiltbetf xcltFfh h ki hilt ago might Nava