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TODAY’S EDITORIAL Men With No Country A MERICAN deserters are learning that public opinion
is fickle.
Swedes once welcomed deserters from American military service with open arms. Now they are indifferent. Sweden was once considered a paradise of jobs, homes and the good life for Americans who refused to fulfill their obligation to their country. Now there is uncertainty, unemployment and inadequate housing. Once the Swedish government lent its prestige to the deserters by its vocal attacks on American involvement in Vietnam. Now its belligerency is toned down and its interest in the deserters has all but vanished. The experience of Pvt. Ray Jones, a Negro, is perhaps illustrative of the difficulties which American deserters face in Sweden. The first to desert, Jones was the first to return home. Despite the reputation of the Swedes for liberal attitudes toward race, Jones found that they have “a natural prejudice against black people.” He was worried, too, about what his countrymen thought of his self-imposed exile as a means of protesting the war. “If I had stayed, they (Americans) would have considered me a Communist. Communism would be the wrong thing for the black people of America.” The change in the attitude of the Swedes probably can be attributed to several things. First, the Americans are deserters, shirkers. There is nothing heroic about a person who flees from his
duty.
Second, the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia reawakened Swedish fear of Communist aggression against their own country, which borders the Soviet Union. Third, perhaps they realize they are free only because the United States has demonstrated its willingness to protect other countries from Red assaults. American deserters in Sweden are truly men without a country. Their fellow Americans are contemptuous of them and the Swedes would just as soon they leave. They are living in a strange country cut off from their families and friends. They are pathetic characters in a real-life tragedy.
Cliches of Socialism
“We have learned to counteract and thus avoid any serious depression.” A persistent complaint against the capitalist system of competitive private enterprise is that it leads to periodic booms and busts. The implication is that businessmen either want to promote depression or that they are powerless to prevent it. Further impUed is that some other system— invariably a form of socialistic intervention—would stimulate continuous growth and progress and feature automatic stabilizing devices to offset and forestall any threatened depression. Long favored among the tools of political intervention is the oft discredited but never abandoned scheme of subsidizing farmers, on the ground that one prosperous farmer will generate a contagious prosperity among at least half a dozen urban dwellers. This myth was perhaps most widely circulated and implemented some thirty years ago, but it was still being promoted by at least one of the presidential candidates in the fall of 1960. Meanwhile, farm subsidies have increased until they exceed in annual amount the combined earnings of all operators in the subsidized segments of American agriculture! That could scarcely be called farm prosperity,hence, little stimulation for the rest of the economy; and it seems fair to conclude that this antidepression device doesn’t work. A more modern variation on the same theme,patriotically camouflaged as national defense, is the
foreign aid program into which the federal government has poured $78 billion at taxpayers’ expense since the end of World War II. But this overseas pumppriming has neither won friends to defend us in case of war nor strengthened our domestic economy. Instead of bringing domestic prosperity, it brought us inflation and the pricing of American goods and services out of foreign mar. kets. Foreign subsidy is no better than farm subsidy as an antidepression stimulant for the home front. Social Security is often mentioned among the measures to combat depression. Yet, the Congress has been hard-pressed to keep the boosts in Social Security benefits coming fast enough to squeeze the beneficiaries through a prolonged period of fairly good times. It is inconceivable that the system has left in it any further priming power to be released in case of depression. Other touted political antidepressants include such federal building and spending projects as post offices, hospitals, schools, highways, dams, and similar welfare measures to aid depressed areas. But like Social Security, these priming devices also have been pushed to their limit in a frantic effort to keep the economy standing still at boomtide. Who is to provide subsidies in anything like comparable amounts in case of depression? The planners’ ultimate weapon to combat depression is deficii Continued on page 12
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Peace talks postponed;
Saigon won’t talk
By RICHARD HUGHES PARIS (UP I)— The United States announced yesterday the Vietnam talks scheduled for Wednesday had been postponed indefinitely following Saigon’s refusal to sit down with the Viet Cong. U.S. spokesman William Jorden said “as soon as a date has been decided for the next meeting we will announce it.” There was no indication when the substantitive talks would begin. “We continue to consult with the government of the Republic of South Vietnam in this matter and we are hopeful that its delegation to the forthcoming
talks will arrange to arrive in
the future,” Jorden said.
South Vietnam President Nguyen Van Thieu was disclosed today in Saigon to have agreed to Paris meetings before President Johnson announced the bombing halt of North
Vietnam last Thursday night.
But Thieu repeated today that he would not send a representative to the Wednesday talks because the Viet Cong was represented as a separate political entity. He left the way open for some future meeting in Paris when he said he “had not
yet made a decision.”
With Saigon throwing one monkey wrench after another into the negotiating machinery
Foreign news commentary By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst
In Southern Laos, a woman hangs her laundry out to dry. It is not just by coincidence that the day also is peaceful, and that no American or Laotian bombs are raining down on one of the nearby branches of the Ho Chi Minh trail. The woman is part of a spy network which helps the Laotian government of Premier Prince Souvanna Phouma and the United States keep tabs on the movement of enemy men and supplies along the Ho Chi Minh Trail through Laos into South Vietnam. Within minutes of the time she takes her washing in, the bombs will be falling. It means there is enemy movement along the trail. Heavy Attack As U.S. fighter-bomber and naval forces redeploy in accordance with President Johnson’s order halting the bombing of the North, the Ho Chi Minh Trail will come under increasingly heavy attack. It is one of the peculiarities of this war that, while the United States can demand that North Vietnam cease its violations of the Demilitarized Zone dividing North and South, no mention can be made of the 200-mile trail which siphons more than half of the enemy’s reinforce-
ments and supplies into the South. The terms of the neutrality of Laos ban the presence of foreign troops. The North Vietnamese never have admitted either the presence of some 35,000 troops there or the existence of the Ho Chi Minh Trail. The United States never had admitted that its “armed reconnaissance” flights over Laos actually are bombing missions or that American pilots sometimes fly Laotian aircraft bearing the markings of the three-headed elephant. OpenSecret Nor are commando-type forays across the Laotian border by South Vietnamese or American Special Forces units led by Nung tribesmen ever officially discussed although they are an open secret. Supplementing manned armed reconnaissance in the air will be low-flying drones, watching not only the trail but the whole of North Vietnam. Ground activities will be assisted by highly secret electronic devices. When President Johnson ordered the bombing halt in the hope it would open the way to meaningful peace talks, he did so in the knowledge that “there Continued on Page 12
the United States began secret talks with the North Vietnam delegation today seeking a postponement of the crucial
Wednesday session.
The U.S. statement announcing the cancellation was the only reference to the South Vietnamese refusal to attend any conference that includes the National Liberation Front, political arm of the Viet Cong, as
an equal partner.
Jorden said, “representatives of the United States and North Vietnam delegations have been meeting to discuss” procedural questions relating to the first meeting of the expanded talks since President Johnson stopped all U.S. bombing of North
Vietnam.”
A North Vietnamese source said the meeting was cancelled at the request of the United
States.
The source said Hanoi agreed to “readily” because it did not want to embarrass the United
States.
But the source said “Hanoi will make no concessions to help Saigon save its face and come here.” The North Vietnamese added, however, “we are ready for four-cornered talks any timeeven tonight— as soon as the Americans also are ready.” Jorden would not elaborate on the secret meetings being held between representatives of North Vietnamese and American delegations. His statement, however, was the first public and official acknowledgement that behind-the-scenes talks have taken place between the two sides. Jorden said that “procedure for the first meeting has not been agreed upon.”
New slogan adopted by Urban Coalition By LOUIS CASSELS United Press International “Give a damn.” “That is the slogan adopted by the Urban Coalition, a group of religious, civic, labor and business leaders concerned with problems of cities. The language may shock some of the conventionally pious. But the sentiment is profoundly Christian. Jesus taught that man’s supreme moral duty is to care— in modern vernacular, give a damn—about your neighbor and everything that affects his welfare and happiness. He also made clear, in his famous parable of the Good Samaritan, that your neighbor is anyone who needs help that you may be able to provide. Except perhaps in a few big cities where the depersonalization of human relations has reached an advanced stage, there are not many people who would say, when confronted with the acute need of an individual neighbor, “I don’t give a damn.” Masses Suffer But many who are kind to others, on a person-to-person basis, find it difficult to extend their compassion to faceless masses of people. Thus they are apt to be indifferent or even hostile toward proposals for alleviating the need of large groups, such as the urban poor. It is this prevalent combination of personal kindness and social apathy that the Urban Coalition is concerned about. Its concern is shared by some pastors of suburban churches attended by affluent white families. One such pastor, the Rev. William A. Beal, rector of St. John’s Episcopal Church in Bethesda, Md., told his congregation recently that “throughout our country and our history, many individuals—good, Christian, churchgoing people—have treated persons as individuals in a decent way, but have closed their eyes to the larger problems of social justice.” More Larger Measures “In a similar way, there are many of us today who treat members of minority groups with respect, with personal kindness and love,” Beal said. “At the same time, we may do almost nothing about the structures and systems that cause poverty, prejudice, persecution, ghettos, segregation, injustice. Thus our personal goodness often becomes irrelevant.” Some Christians would reply that the way to change society is to change the hearts of men, one by one, through evangelism and religious conversion. That was the basic viewpoint of many churches in Germany during the rise to power of Adolph Hitler. They preached the Gospel to individuals, calling them to private righteousness , while a whole society went to hell, unchallenged and unrebuked. * * * The first national political platform was adopted on May 11, 1832, by a group of 295 Democratic-Republican d e 1 egates in Washington, D.C.
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JIM BISHOP: Reporter
It is difficult for a nation of pious hypocritical people to face a subject like homosexuality. Until now, it has been taboo. The heterosexual majority has turned its back to the problem, although psychiatry is no longer certain that it is a problem. In enlightened quarters it is agreed that homosexuals always existed. The ability to draw sexual affection from a member of one’s own sex existed among the ancient Egyptian.-, and the cave men of an earlier age. There is an additional possibility t hat the percentage, among both men and women, always ranged in the field of IV2 to 2. The psycho-analysts took a few timid steps in an effort to cure homosexuals, but many feel that additional damage to the person, ality was inflicted in many cases, and, while a rare few may alter their desires from homo to hetero, psychiatry is contra-indi-cated in most cases. Most psychiatrists will notventure an opinion as to the cause of homosexuality. The few whc do offer opinions speak vaguely of an early traumatic experience with the parent of the opposite sex, resulting in a permanent rejection of the opposite sex, as a love object. It is also possible that if IV2 to 2 percent of all personalities are, in a sense, mutant, they may remain that way forever. It is also possible that there is a traceof homosexuality in everybody. I’ve met many masculine men who have more than a manly appreciation of fashions,interior decoration, colors and dress patterns. It is common for feminine women to see an attractive woman at a cock-tail party and say: “I can’t take my eyes off her. If I were a man, I could go for that type.” Conversely, I do not think that the fad for long hair among our young men is related to homosexuality. From what I hear, the breed is as virile as the fathers. The long hair and the addiction to fur collars and cuffs appear to be a mass rebellion against the conformity of the parents. If if isn’t-and I’m wrong-the next generation goes down the drain. Most people feel a revulsion against homosexuality in its coercive aspects. The seduction of innocents hurts the conscience of the social order. In one state, Florida, it is referred to in books of law as “the unmentionable crime.” If it is unmentionable, it should be unenforceable. The anxiety of mothers and fathers about pre-teen sons, who play with dolls, or prefer the society of girls to boys; and daughters who want boyish haircuts and who climb trees and play second base,is,of course, ridicu-
lous and is akin to seeing things under the bed. There is a serious question whether these proclivities are related to homosexuality, although many parents punish such youngsters and treat them as pariahs. In truth, the parental fear in such matters is so deep and witless that many a father buys baseball bats and footballs for his son’s first birthday. Mothers preach the feminine psyche to freckled tomboys before the little girls are aware that there are two sexes. The recent report on Philadelphia’s prisons sickens everyone, including homosexuals. The strong sexual aggressors prey on the lone young prisoner whether he is homosexual or not. Two thousand assaults were recorded; numberless thousands of others, you may be sure, were hidden in shame. Among the prisoners, the report stated, sexual gratification was not the primary cause of the attack by gangs. It was “conquest and degradation of the victim.” What is probably more important than these frightening statistics is to acknowledge that the sex drive is in motion in prison as well as outside, and that the sociologists are going to have to do something about it. Crime within the walls is no less offensive because it occurs in a darkened cell against a helpless human. The United States should open the windows on this subject and permit an airing of the hidden rooms of behavior. The notion that we are endorsing something by discussing it is archaic. All we have to do is to face it and ask ourselves, as Great Britain did, whether homosexuality between consenting adults is a crime. If it is, America will continue to dwell in its coccoon of Ignorance. If it isn’t, we must ask our doctors whether legalizing homosexuality will increase the percentage of homosexuals. If, in their opinion, it will not, we are going to have to face, with some degree of grace, a third sex. It is not going to be easy. Continued on Page 8
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