Workshops on Peace
'Get out of Vietnam'
By PAUL HANEY
The U.S. must get out of Vietnam regardless of loss of face, and exchange military aid for social reform, said Sidney Lens.
Lens, author of nine books, spoke Saturday at Workshops on Peace Action sponsored by the Kansas Peace Forum. About 200 persons heard the speech, "The Folly of Anti-Communism," in Dyche Auditorium.
LENS SAID the Western World has "made more Communists than the Communists could ever have made.
He said the U.S. has made communism in China, Rusia, Cuba and Vietnam because "these countries had no place else to go." He said U.S. "planes, tanks and guns kept these countries from achieving independence."
"For 20 years we have said communism is the cause of our troubles," he said.
"Instead, comunism is the effect of our mistakes and our unwillingness to deal with the social problems of our time."
"MILITARY AID is self-defeating," he said.
"We must move toward one great international world, not through the United Nations, but by underwriting steps to a common market and a common sovereignty."
He said poor countries are not poor because they are culturally deprived, but because imperialism prevented them from attaining national and economic independence.
He said the U.S.'s policy is:
Communism is the cause of our
Former UDK editor killed in Vietnam
Ronald D. Gallagher ('62), former UDK managing editor, was killed in Vietnam Saturday by U.S. artillery fire.
Gallagher, 27, was a freelance photographer and writer for Kansas and Missouri newspapers. He was the ninth correspondent killed in the war.
He went to Vietnam in December and had planned to stay six to eight months. He was accredited to the U.S. command in Vietnam to work for the Topeka Capital-Journal, the Joplin (Mo.) Globe and the Fort Scott Tribune.
UNDER HIS EDITORSHIP, the UDK won an "All-American Honor Rating." The award is presented every semester by the Associated Collegiate Press to the top college and university newspapers.
After graduating from the William Allen White School of Journalism he was employed as national publicity director for People-to-People in Kansas City.
He was killed while with a company of the 9th division southwest of Saigon by a U.S. artillery barrage which accidentally landed among U.S. infantrymen.
IN ONE OF HIS LAST dispatches to the Topeka Capital-Journal, Gallagher said the most pathetic casualties in Vietnam are U.S. troops hit by their own artillery.
At KU he was a member of the All Student Council and the executive committee of People-to-People.
He was president of the KU chapter of Sigma Delta Chi journalism fraternity and a member of the national board of directors.
He was president of the student body and a member of the debate team at Fort Scott Junior College before attending KU.
trouble and if we challenge communism with military force it will fall.
He warned that if the U.S. failed to realign its foreign policy, "we will have Vietnam after Vietnam until nuclear war."
LARAMIE, Wyo—(UPI)—Laramie Fire Department officials ran a shiny new fire truck through all its tests before finally agreeing to accept the $36,000 vehicle Wednesday.
Thursday it remained parked in the garage. The right front tire was flat and the battery was dead.
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