REACTION IN NORTH VIETNAM TO ANTIWAR PROTESTS IN THE UNITED STATES

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April 1, 1966
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CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - SENATE 7061
The PRESIDING OFFICER1 The cor-
rection will be made, and without objec-
tion the article will be printed in full at
this point.
The article is as follows:
SYMINGTON A POPULAR CHOICE
(By Mary McGrory)
When Lloyd Hand suddenly ducked out of
his job as chief of protocol to seek his politi-
cal fortunes in California, President Johnson
called for a list of bright young men in the
administration which had been prepared for
just such contingencies.
His eye fell on the name of James W.
Symington, 38, executive director of the Pres-
ident's Committee on Juvenile Delinquency.
He decided on the spot that he wanted Sym-
ington to switch from handling dropouts
to handling diplomats.
It is the most popular appointment the
President has made since he plucked Arthur
J. Goldberg from the Supreme Court and
dispatched him to the United Nations.
In this testy town, it is difficult to find
anyone who doesn't like Symington. It is
impossible to find anyone who doesn't ap-
preciate his minstrelsy. An accomplished
guitarist, he has a sweet tenor voice and
sings ballads, some of his own composition.
The choice pleased both Johnsonians and
Kennedyites, hawks and doves, classical and
jazz buffs. Symington's favorite composer is
Mozart, but he swings with the pop art set,
too.
His wife, Sylvia, is also musical and charm-
ing. His children, Julie, 11, and Jeremy, 8,
are singularly well-mannered. At Syming-
ton's swearing-in ceremonies, they stood in
the receiving line and greeted well-wishers
with great aplomb.
Symington, a slim lawyer who speaks three
languages, is trained in diplomacy. He
served John Hay Whitney for 2 years in
London and one of his chores was to ar-
range the visit of then Vice President Richard
M. Nixon in 1959.
He provided the only soothing notes of the
1960 Democratic convention. His father,
Senator STUART SYMINGTON, of Missouri, made
a small bid for the presidential nomination.
It came to naught, but had the matter been
decided by those grateful auditors who heard
Jim Symington singing gentle anti-Eisen-
hower ditties in his father's headquarters,
it might have come out differently.
Symington joined the, New Frontier as
Deputy to the Administrator of Food for
Peace, GEORGE MCGOVERN, who has since be-
come a Senator from South Dakota. Mc-
GOVERN says Symington has a knack of
adapting to foreigners and understanding
them.
His second boss was then Attorney Gen-
eral ROBERT F. KENNEDY. As an adminis-
trative assistant, one of Symington's jobs
was to tour campuses to find out how foreign
students were faring in American universi-
ties, which has turned out to be a relevent
assignment.
Since June 1965, Symington has been the
Justice Department's expert on juvenile de-
linquency. One of the proudest boasts of
the interdepartmental group was its success-
ful negotiation of peace between the teen-
agers of Hampton Beach, N,H., and their
elders.
He was always a featured performer at
the annual Justice Department Christmas
parties for the poor children of Washington.
He would say, "I wish you kids would stay
in school" before he struck up "I Ride on
Ole Paint" or "Liza Jane."
Attorney General Katzenbach regards
Symington as uniquely suited to his new
duties. In addition to being polite, says
Mr. Katzenbach he is droll.
Symington got started in a great flurry.
Within an hour of being sworn in, he was in
the yellow Oval Room presenting his first
Ambassador, Arnim Ahmad Huessein of the
Sudan, to President Johnson.
His voice quivered a trifle, but his pro-
nunciation was fine. He had been briefed
on the ritual in the limousine on his way
to the White House by his deputy, Chester
Carter.
He was already immersed in preparation
for his first big test, the historic and un-
precedented visit to the first woman prime
minister to come to America, Indira Gandhi
of India.
Symington and his wife are now busy
studying photographs of the members of
Mrs. Gandhi's entourage. A phonetics ex-
pert is coaching them in the pronunciation
of Indian names.
He is also studying a huge briefing book full
of statistics and discussions of Indian issues:
Food, economy, and relations with Pakistan.
While a chief of protocol must be a past
master of small talk, he must also be ready
for that moment when a weary head of state
wishes to discuss, with the ever-present
guide and escort, some matter of substance.
Symington is greatly looking forward to
the moment when he steps forward to wel-
come Mrs. Gandhi, in the name of President
Johnson, speaking his name and his new
position.
When she goes back to New Delhi, he will
address himself to getting in touch with
his new constituency, the representatives of
113 countries on Embassy Row. He wants to
communicate with them and find out their
interests, views, and problems and, as he
says, "readily, speedily, and accurately trans-
mit them to the executive department."
TRIBUTE TO DR. ROBERT J.
ANDERSON
Mr. BYRD of West Virginia. Mr.
President, one of the finest public ser-
vants of the Federal Government, whom
I have come to know through the years,
is retiring after 26 years of service to-
day, April 1, and I take this opportunity
to pay tribute to his work and accom-
plishments.
I refer to Dr. Robert J. Anderson, As-
sistant Surgeon General of the Public
Health Service and Chief of its Bureau
of State Services for the past 4 years.
His career offers an example of the kind
of devoted public service we look for in
the performance of Federal Government
programs.
Dr. Anderson has appeared before me
in my capacity as a member of the De-
partment of Health, Education, and Wel-
fare Subcommittee of the Senate Appro-
priations Committee for the past 4 years.
He has come as the director of the Pub-
lic Health Service's environmental health
activities. I have been impressed with
the fine job he was doing and with his
unfailing attitude of cooperation, his
courtesy, and his vision and imagina-
tion.
I know also that Dr. Anderson came to
be, during his career with the Public
Health Service, one of the Nation's lead-
ing experts on tuberculosis and respira-
tory disease problems in general. I am
told that upon retirement from the Fed-
eral Government he will move to a top
position with the medical research arm
of the National Tuberculosis Associa-
tion-and I certainly congratulate that
organization on getting him. I also offer
Dr. Anderson my sincere thanks for our
association and congratulations on this
occasion.
REACTION IN NORTH VIETNAM TO
ANTIWAR PROTESTS IN THE
UNITED STATES
Mr. DODD. Mr. President, in his New
Year's message to the American people,
carried in English over Moscow radio,
Ho Chi Minh thanked the antiwar pro-
testors in the United States for their
show of solidarity for his cause. He
stated:
I warmly greet and thank the American
people for demanding that the U.S. Govern-
ment end the aggressive war in Vietnam.
Recently the North Vietnamese Gov-
ernment issued a stamp commemorating
Norman Morrison, the antiwar pro-
testor who burned himself to death in
front of the Pentagon in opposition to
the war.
British Correspondent James Cameron
has reported that in North Vietnam
demonstrations are now occurring in
support of demonstrations in the United
States.
Each time a protest occurs in this
country, there is a concerted effort to
convince the people of North Vietnam
and the world that the majority of
Americans really support the aggressive
and expansionist efforts of communism.
Such a view simply serves to prolong
the conflict, and those Americans who
engage in such protests are often unwit-
tingly providing fuel for this furnace of
deception. In an excellent article in the
National Observer, Wesley Pruden, Jr.,
discusses in some detail the fact of Com-
munist pleasure over antiwar protests in
the United States.
He quotes an article in the North Viet-
namese newspaper, the Vietnam Courier,
which states the following:
What is particularly significant is that the
imperialists, when launching attacks against
the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, have
failed to foresee that the Socialist countries,
first of all the Soviet Union and China, will
give every necessary assistance to the Viet-
namese people in countering their war of
destruction * * * Washington not only is
isolated before public opinion, but also has
to face the American people's movement
against its aggressive war.
I wish to share with my colleagues the
insights of Mr. Pruden's article, and ask
unanimous consent to have it printed in
the RECORD at this point.
There being no objection, the article
was ordered to be printed in the RECORD,
as follows:
Ho-No PRIZE POET: How ASIAN REDS GLOAT
OVER U.S. ANTIWAR PROTESTS
HONG KONG.-Ho Chi Minh first thought of
himself as a poet more than 40 years ago,
when he scribbled bittersweet verses at night
after working by day as a pastry cook at the
old Carlton Hotel in London. He returned
to the political ferment of Asia long ago, and
his political fortunes in North Vietnam, any-
way, have never been brighter.
But old Ho's poetry is as bad as ever. To
his good fortune, the editors to whom he
submits his poems can never turn him down,
and Ho's poems usually are featured on the
front pages of the North Vietnamese propa-
ganda journals that grace Hong Kong's side-
walk news counters.
A reading of these journals, in addition to
plowing through Ho's graceless rhymes, inter-
ests many of the China watchers in this lis-
tening-post colony because they abound in
clues to the thinking in Hanoi and Peking.
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In recent days Peking's propaganda has re-
ferred apologetically to "twists and turns"
along the "revolutionary road," an obvious
reference to recent reverses suffered by
Peking-style communism throughout the
world. But this doesn't stop the Communist
,journals from stretching, even mauling, the
far. t:: and figures of the Vietnam war. The
propaganda remains tough and unyielding,
and. the gloating over American antiwar pro-
tes,ts is loud and boasting.
Consider this new verse from Ho Chi Minh's
pen, featured (encircled in a double-line red
border) in the slickly printed, English-lan-
gua.ge Vietnam Courier:
"T.4a.y the South shine with new victories,
With many more Dau Tieng, Bau Bang.
Met Me, Da Nang.
11!fav the North show enhanced heroism,
The higher the American aggressors' esca-
lation, the heavier their defeats.
I,el, all our compatriots unite and be of one
mind,
Whether in frontline or in the rear, let our
people redouble their efforts,
Emulating in production and rushing for-
ward in the fight
Against the U.S. aggressors, for national sal-
vation, our victory is certain."
Clio Vietnam Courier, though it purports
to report and interpret the news of the war
In Vietnam for Vietnamese readers, is in-
tended as a propaganda vehicle to Western
eves. The news it reports is a clever mix-
ture of fact. a lot of it stolen from and at-
tributed to United States and British wire
services, and absurd claims of Communist
Vietcong military prowess.
samples:
"'I'lie year 1966 began with the downing
of the 847th U.S. aircraft over North Viet-
nain (a pilotless plane) since August 5,
11164." (U.S. military sources in Saigon con-
ceded that American aircraft losses since the
raids began on February 7, 1965, to be about
Wil planes.)
"November 1-7: Second stage of Plei Me
battle, intercepting of a rescue party sent
by the 1st U.S. Cavalry Air Mobile Division:
400 Yankees killed or wounded, 1 company
rooted (November 1), 2 companies almost
completely wiped out (November 6).
"'November 8: Annihilation of a battalion
of U.S. Brigade 173 at Dat Cuoc (Bien Hoa) :
500 Yankees annihilated, 4 planes shot
down "
TOO HIGH FOR BELIEF
' i liese staggering casualty figures are, of
course, denied by U.S. military sources, who
said at the time only that American units
Sal suffered "moderate" casualties. The
liaigon command no longer releases specific
casualty figures for specific engagements, but
tine slaying of 900 U.S. soldiers within an 8-
day period would have been impossible to
keep secret.
"et the Courier reports with little polish-
h"- i._ce facts of the American protests against
tl,r war at home. "Washington not only is
isolated before world public opinion but also
has to face the American people's movement
against its aggressive war," writes an anony-
mous reporter in an article entitled "Time Is
on Our Side."
"7t- Is an unprecedentedly broad move-
no'ot.. which stands not only in opposition
to the military adventure of the White House
and in support of the Vietnamese people's
struggle (i.e., the Vietcong), but also for a
change in the policy of the U.S. reactionary
government and for democratic rights and
in defense of the American people's peaceful
life."
A CHRONOLOGY OF SUPPORT
F.lo fewer than 25 items on U.S. protests
ace included in a chronology of 1965 ex-
amples of the "World Support to the Viet-
na,crxCse People" in the current issue of the
Vietnam Courier.
Items:
"In early January the May 2 movement in
New York distributed leaflets calling on
American youth not to en to fight In South
Vietnam. The movement involved 100 U.S.
universities.
"Flour hundred and sixteen American in-
tellectuals demand that Johnson stop the
war in Vietnam.
"Thirty-eight students of Aublin Univer-
sity, Ohio (apparently a reference to Oberlin
College) go on. a hunger strike in protest
against U.S. Government Vietnam policy.
"A letter from 500 scientists protesting
against Johnson's policy is published by the
!%trw York 'rimers.
"Flight hundred and seventy-five Jewish
clergymen demand that Johnson stop ex-
panding the war.
"Twenty thousand American students in
Washington demonstrate to protest against
the U.S. Government.
"Three thousand Am"rican intellectuals,
among them Scientist Linus Pauling, call on
,:world scientists and workers not to produce
and transport weapons to Vietnam.
"Arthur Miller sends a message protesting
against Johnson's aggressive policy."
AN VNSELIEVAI:LE BOAST
And so on. The significance of this recital
is the importance Hanoi obviously attaches
to the protests. All but buried in a Vietnam
Courier story boasting that "Time Is on Our
Side" is the claim that by the end of De-
cember 1965 a total of nine U.S. Infantry
and armored battalions had been wiped out."
If this were true, it would hardly matter
whether time, American intellectuals, world
opinion, or anyone else were on the side of
the Vietcong.
The emphatic point of the Vietnam Cou-
rior story is the assertion that Washington
is slowly being drawn in o a noose of Amer-
ican grassroots design; "what is particu-
larly significant is that the imperialists,
when launching attacks against the .Demo-
cratic Republic of [North] Vietnam, have
failed to foresee that the Socialist countries,
first of all the Soviet Ur.ion and China, will
give every necessary assistance to the Viet-
namese people in coum,.ering their war of
destruction. * " * Washington not only is
isolated before world public opinion but also
' as to face the American people's movement
against its aggressive war_"
Tlae weekly Peking Review takes almost
!she' same line in an issue featuring a report
on "U.S. War Makers in the Dock," and "A
Bleak Time for Johnson:." This bleakness,
the Review makes clear, is "growing dissent
with United States." Thor President, says the
17,eview, is one of "the great butchers" of
history.
THE SAC SO IINCIDENT
"The political atmospaere in Washington
's quite different from 1964," the magazine's
editors write confidently. "Early in August
that year, the U.S. Government created the
-13ac Bo Gulf (the Gulf of Tonkin) incident
e.nd Started its armed ag,ression against the
Democratic Republic of IrNorth] Vietnam.
'Then on August 7, the :;wo Houses Of Con-
gress passed a joint resolution authorizing
the Johnson administration to 'take all nec-
s~.rary steps, including the use of armed
forces,' to extend U.S. aggression in Asia.
"But now, after the Yankee aggressor
troops have been trounced on the Vietnam
battlefield, influential Ccnlgressmen are sing-
ing a very different tune
"[J. WrL.LiANI] FI;LBRICirr, chairman of the
Senate Foreign Relatio is Committee, de-
clared over television that he thought the
ITS. 'commitment to defend' South Vietnam
was 'self-generating.' He regretted his own
,endorsement of the Auc;ust 1964 resolution
and said, ':I have played a part in that that
f em not at all proud of.' "
Hanoi's propagandists, like the devil, quote
scripture of their own choosing, however,
April; 1, 1966
and if anyone is confused by what Senator
FULBRIGHT or Senator MORSE really mean.
helpful Chung Ho, writing in the Peking
Review, is ready with the explanation.
"No doubt," he says, in prose only a little
better than Ho Chi Minh'; poetry, the John-
son administration "will become still more
desperate. It will continue to extend the
war while thinking up still. further variations
of the 'peace talks' Swindle. But as
events show, with the Vietnamese people
fighting heroically and more and more mil-
lions in the world supporting them, the
Johnson administration is nearing the end
of its tether. Nothing can save it."-W'ES-
LEY PRUDEN, JR.
THE 20TH ANNUAL LOS ANGELES
MUSIC FES'T'IVAL
Mr. MURPHY. Mr. President, it is
with special pride that I call your atten-
tion to the 20th annual Los Angeles Mu-
sic Festival to be helc in Los Angeles
during May 1966.
Great artists from ail over the world
have paid tribute to the significance of
the Lost Angeles Mush Festival. This
great event is to the everlasting credit
of its sponsors. Since Federal funds are
becoming available foi such events at
present, it is especially noteworthy that
this festival has survived and, in fact,
distinguished itself as one of the most
important such festivals in the world
without support from any Federal Gov-
ernment agency for 20 years.
In the fall of 1945, Mr. Franz Waxman
called on Dr. Gustave O. Arlt, chairman
of the committee on fine arts productions
at UCLA, to propose a series of orchestral
concerts for the spring of 1946, to be
called the Los Angeles Music Festival.
Dr. Arlt liked the idea, arranged the de-
tails and provided part of the under-
writing; the balance ct:-.me from private
sources.
The concerts were given in the first
2 weeks of June 1946 They were so
successful that arrangements were made
for another series in tY e following year.
After the second season, Dr. Arlt agreed
to make the festival a resultant annual
fixture. It was incorporated, a board
of directors was elected, and the project
was given a sound financial[ base. The
major support, however. continued to be
from Dr. Arlt's committee on fine arts
productions.
To acquaint the Nat! mn with this out-
standing program, I ask unanimous con-
sent that a preseason announcement of
the forthcoming festival be printed in
the RECORD.
Mr. President, I would urge fellow
Californians to take a [vantage of this
outstanding event and any of my col-
leagues who are fortunate enough to be
visiting the Golden State at this time,
I highly recommend the festival.
There being no objection, the an-
nouncement was ordered to be printed
in the RECORD, as follows:
THE 19,66 Los ANGELES MUSIC FESTIVAI
Twentieth anniversay. Franz Waxirion,
founder and director.
THURSDAY, A,AY 5
Gala opening concert: Igor Stravinsky con-
ducting his melodrama, "Persephone," with
the Ithaca Concert Choir and Texas Boys'
Choir; also "Chronoehr)mie," ay Olivier
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CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - SENATE 7067
to bring about the cultural annihilation
of 3 million Jews within their own bor-
ders have been of grave and growing
concern to Americans of all creeds. Less
than a year ago we in the Senate voted
unanimously to condemn the systematic
denial of equal rights to Soviet Jews by
their government. But so long as that
campaign continues Americans must
continue to raise their voices in protest.
It is with some pride, therefore, that I
call to the Senate's attention two such
protests by citizens of my own State.
Earlier this week Assemblyman Joseph
C. Woodcock, Jr., of Bergen County in-
troduced in the New Jersey State As-
sembly a resolution urging the Soviet
Government to accord the same cultural,
educational, and religious rights to Jews
as are permitted to other ethnic groups
in the Soviet Union.
The timeliness of his action is under-
scored by the approach of the Passover
holiday. And what Passover will mean
this year to those Americans who are
most deeply affected by the plight of So-
viet Jewry has been described in moving
fashion by another distinguished citizen
of New Jersey-Mrs. Adolf Robison of
West Englewood. A long-time teacher
and active businesswoman, Ann Robison
has nevertheless found time to take a
leading role in a great number of cultural
and civic undertakings.
I ask unanimous consent that Mrs.
Robison's article, published in the Jewish
Standard of Jersey City, be printed at
this point in the RECORD.
There being no objection, the article
was ordered to be printed in the RECORD,
as follows:
ON THE GO
(By Ann Robison)
When Purim comes, can Passover be far
behind? Pesach brings matzoh and matzoh,
th's year, has a special significance. After
thousands of years, an extra matzoh with a
new meaning will enter our Seder services.
To the three matzoh traditionally set aside
will be added a fourth one, the matzoh of
oppression. This "lechem oni" will not be
to remind us of the oppression of Jews in
Egypt in Pharaoh's time, but to remind us of
a modern tragedy, the plight of the Jews In
the Soviet Union in Kosygin's time. Twenty-
four national organizations in the United
States, including religious and lay groups,
men and women numbering in the millions
In their combined membership, say, "Let our
people survive as Jews or let our people go."
Russia answers "No" to both supplications.
The American Jewish Conference on Soviet
Jewry, which is the umbrella organization of
these 24 national organizations, includes re-
ligious Jews, from the Orthodox to the Re-
form, and nonreligious, from those who at-
tend the synagogue of their choice only on
Yom Kippur to the agnostics and atheists
(the God the agnostics aren't sure of, and
the atheists don't believe in, is probably a
Jewish God). For each of us a different
sensibility Is outraged as we learn the facts
about the plight of our fellow Jews. The
rabbis and congregational representatives are
especially saddened as the synagogues are
closed one by one. Rabbi Israel Miller, presi-
dent of the Rabinical Council of America, the
chairman of the steering committee Of the
conference group, came back from his visit
to the U.S.S.R. with an official promise that
the Moscow Yeshiva (Seminary) would be
reopened. But it was not, and the average
age of the few remaining rabbis in Russia
is 89.
A recently returned traveler told of going
to visit the one remaining synagogue in Kiev,
where there are 210,000 Jews. This house of
worship, like all churches and mosques in
Russia, is maintained by the government.
The buildings of other religions are kept up
in flue order. Only the synagogue is
neglected miserably. The exterior and inte-
rior are in disrepair, the prayer shawls are in
tatters, and the few prayerbooks are crum-
bling with age. When the young people
finally are persuaded by grandpa to go to
"shul," they are as offended by the dirt and
mire of the condition of the house of the
Lord of their people.
This is what Communist Russia wants:
the complete de-Judaization of her Jewish
population. The uniformed answer, "But
Russia and communism are atheistic; this is
what you would expect." If this be true, why
are all the other ethnic groups, more than
100 of them including the Volga Germans,
helped by the Government to build and
maintain beautiful churches and seminaries?
Why Is even the smallest minority group
given special Government-supported schools
where the teaching is done in its native
tongue? Why are there flourishing news-
papers and magazines in all minority lan-
guages-but only a small unworthy biweekly
in Yiddish and a monthly magazine, pre-
sided over by a Yiddish poet who is regarded
as a party hack and an apologist for the
ultimate cultural assimilation of Soviet
Jewry? Why can you buy religious objects
for every religion but the Jewish? Why can
you go to see a play in German or in Arme-
nian, while there is nothing left of the great,
internationally famous Russian Yiddish The-
ater?
A recent visitor told of a Jewish concert
which he attended in a large Russian city.
The soloist, a singer, was an old man who re-
turned from 10 years in a Siberian labor
camp with only two fingers on his right
hand. He had lost more than these two fin-
gers, we were told; his spirit and his voice
were gone too. His rendition of Yiddish
songs made it not an evening of Jewish cul-
ture, but a funeral service to mourn the
death of Yiddish talent and artistry.
Another story comes to us firsthand about
eager, talented Jewish children being turned
away from Government-run music schools,
When one teacher intervened in the behalf
of a gifted little violinist, the answer she got
from the Government-appointed principal of
the school was, "We have enough Ostralkh's."
In my work for the cause of the Soviet
Jews, I come across many skeptics. Espe-
cially frustrating are those who reject my
stories and my statistics. They throw in my
face their stories about what they were taken
to see by the lovely intourist guide, and what
she or some Government Jews have told
them. For these naive Americans, I now
have my own book of U.S.S.R. Government
statistics. Even these Soviet figures prove
our case that anti-Semitism in Russia exists
to the point where it is not an exaggerated
indictment to accuse the Soviet Government
of cultural and religious genocide against the
Jewish people.
From the section dealing fith university
students we can figure mathematically that
the percentage of Jews in the universities
at the present time is smaller than at any
time during the czarist regime when the
numerous clausus laws were in force.
So while we can still remember that the
world, including the Jews, did not do enough
to save the 6 million Jews who perished In the
Nazi holocaust, let us not forget that there .
Is still time to help the 3 million Jews in
Russia. Reliable reports tell us that Moscow
is vulnerable and is susceptible to the pres-
sure of world public opinion.
As we lean at our seder table with our
loved ones-our son who has been bar-
mitzvahed, our daughter who has just been
accepted at Vassar, Uncle Ben who is a high
Government official in Washington, Aunt
Minnie who is president of the sisterhood,
and Cousin Abe who has just returned from
the Zionist convention in Israel-as we pick
up the matzoh of oppression, let us not for-
get to thank God that we are Jews in the
United States. And let us remember that
at many a seder table in the Soviet Union
nothing of the above picture could be true.
Even the matzoh would probably not be
available.
Let us say: "We set aside this "lechein
oni'-this matzoh of oppression-to remem-
ber the 3 million Jews of the Soviet Union,
Most of them cannot have matzoh on their
seder tables tonight. Conceive of Passover
without matzoh-without that visible re-
minder of our flight from slavery.
Think of Soviet Jews. They cannot learn
of their Jewish past and hand It down to
their children. They cannot learn the lan-
guages of their fathers and hand it down to
their children. They cannot teach their
children to be their teachers, their rabbis.
They can only sit in silence and become in-
visible. We shall be their voice, and our
voices shall be joined by thousands of men
of conscience aroused by the Injustice im-
posed on Soviet Jews. Then shall they know
that they have been forgotten, and they that
AN ON-THE-SPOT REPORT FROM
VIETNAM
Mr. HARTKE. Mr. President, re-
cently Earl Richert, of the Scripps-How-
ard Newspaper Alliance, spent 4 weeks in
South Vietnam. His summary of im-
pressions, compressing his findings about
the situation as it existed only a week
or two ago, has some elements of grave
doubt about whether our efforts even at
stepped-up levels, can achieve their goals.
Despite high- morale among our troops
and awesome firepower, he finds few
signs of the enemy approaching a break-
ing point, and concern about both eco-
nomic and political aspects of the Saigon
regime.
I ask unanimous consent that Mr.
Richert's article, which appeared in the
Washington Daily News of March 24,
may appear in the CONGRESSIONAL REC-
ORD.
There being no objection, the article
was ordered to be printed in the RECORD,
as follows:
GI's WANT To GET ANOTHER "CHARLIE"-
AWESOME U.S. POWER IN VIETNAM STILL NOT
ENOUGH
(By Earl Richert)
(NOTE.-This is an over-all size-up of the
situation confronting us in South Vietnam-
some boiled-down impressions of Editor Earl
Richert of the Scripps-Howard Newspaper Al-
liance after a 4 weeks' visit to the area.)
HONOLULU.-The most dismaying aspect of
a tour of South Vietnam today is the evi-
dence that the awesome power and energy
now being exerted by the United States still
isn't enough.
The Vietcong keep coming, asking for
more.
If the enemy is anywhere near the break-
ing point-as a handful of optimists con-
tend-there are few signs of It.
FIREPOWER
The firepower aspect of the U.S. effort is
something to behold. Planes loaded with
bombs, napalm and sometimes small missiles
fly from big aircraft carriers standing off
South Vietnam with an all-out purposeful-
ness as if it were D-Day on Normandy Beach.
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The saane is true froni the airfields in South
Vietnam.
Morale among ITS. Forces is high. I have
heard pilots swear angrily and bemoan their
fuck, when their mission. was scrubbed. U.S.
tighter and bomber pilots are now doing what
they've been trained for from years back.
And never will they fight in more favorable
e;ircumsta,nces-with no enemy air opposi-
tion.
I 'was told of young soldiers who were no
less disappointed when an operation was de-
nyed for a day-they wanted to get after
"Charlie," the GI's name for the Vietcong.
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Americans from. top to' bottom are work-
ing arduously and grimly. Commanding
elev. William. C. Westmoreland, besides di-
rceting the war, rushes around the country
popping up his own and the South Viet-
namese troops,
The Amer'can Embassy tinder Henry Cabot
'fudge, with its many operations, is furiously
energetic as it advises and tries to smooth
out problems for the still-fledging Saigon
governinc.A.
infortnatinn from raptured Vietcong pris-
oners is being fed back to computers in
Wa, shington. Top psychologists are at
work-for example, we've noted the growing
sadness in South Vietnamese songs after 20
years of w:.rfare, and have induced their
composers to come up with peppy and more
ciiccriul ti tellies.
9N I'e,ATTON
And were trying to help the Saigon gov-
ernment tight inflation by holding ready
31(0,000 tons of I1.S.-produced rice to sway
i;lie market downward
Our military intelligence s.tead.ily improves.
I was told that we, now have photographs
at well as enmplete informal.ion on the top
:30 Vfetrong leaders,
tint the Vietcong still are strong and doing
well. As evirleuce of this, Marine Lt. Gen.
Lewis Walt, himself a tough fighting man,
in his mountain-trip her.dquarters out-
ride Da Nang, that he moist have even more
than his present 41,000 marines. And he's
aprtakiiig shout an area where the South
Vi,stnamesrv troops are regarded as well
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