Quaker speaks
Viet views told
"We are wrong. We must admit it. We must leave."
Russell Johnson, Quaker representative to North and South Vietnam and Southeast Asia and a recent visitor to Vietnam, was speaking about U.S. military involvement in Vietnam at the First Methodist Church yesterday.
"The real threat to peace in Southeast Asia is the failure of the elite and privileged few to provide economic and social justice," he said.
JOHNSON CALLED THIS a "violence of the status quo" of which we as Americans know very little, while what we are constantly told of is the violence of the Communist revolutionary.
"For years now," he said, "in Southeast Asia the only persons to lift up the little man at the grass roots have been the Communists.
"For the peasants of Asia, Communism is not a threat, but an answer to their problems."
HE CALLED THE American view of China as an imposing
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threat in Southeast Asia a phobia.
"There is no objective evidence that China is an expansionist power," he said.
He cited China's involvement in Korea, Tibet and the Sino- India dispute as legitimate involvements and not as evidence of an expansionist power.
"OUR SUBMARINES ARE in everyone's waters and our planes are in everyone's heaven, and we call them expansionalists."
He said the only freedom at stake is the "freedom of free enterprise."
He briefly explained Vietnam's long history of foreign domination beginning with China's thousand year rule.
HE TALKED about the French rule and said there is no cliche we have used that the French did not use in their day.
"The Communists have for generations, been the backbone of the movement to throw the foreigners out," he said.
"The Communists in Vietnam are the patriots."
HE POINTED OUT THAT this situation did not exist in any other country: there is no other Ho Chi Minh, and Communism will always exist in Vietnam.
He said the people he talked with in North Vietnam are willing to fight another 15 or 20 years or go back into the jungle if necessary.
Johnson said he was told, "You are using Vietnamese blood and bone to experiment with your new weapons."
In one place he said there was rubble as far as he could see and when people asked him for reasons for the bombings he said he felt ashamed because he had no answers.
KU police today are trying to learn the identity of a medium-height, heavy-built white male who apparently broke a plate glass window at the 14th St. traffic control station. The incident
was reported by Michael Shurtz. Lawrence sophomore, and Charles Baird, Hutchinson junior.
Police News
A camera was reported stolen from a room in Templin hall occupied by Stephen B. Getter.
Shawnee freshman. The value of the camera was not reported.
8 Daily Kansan Monday, May 8, 1967
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