ANTI-REDS DOMINATE WAR GROUP

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000102560001-3
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• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 19, 2013
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: October 26, 1967
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Right-Wing Appears:
Better Represented
Than Center, Left
.By RICHARD DUDAIAN
A 'Washington Correspondent of the
? Post-Dispatch
WASHINGTON
;%,..? THE NEAREST THING to a
common denominator .among the
103 charter members of a new pro-
Vietnam committee' is. hard-line
?in some cases? doctrinaire?anti-
Communism.
. Although the Citizens Commit-
tee for Peace with Freedom in
Vietnam says it speaks for the
;.'"great silent center of American
life," the right ,appears better rep-.
3 . resented than the center or left. '
There is ? a scattering of well known
conservatives,. including some prominent
professional anti-Communists.' ,
STAT Among the latter are %John M. Fisher,
Frank R. Barnett, Christopher . Emmett
and David Martin.
Fisher, listed as president of the Amen-'
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can Research Foundation of . Chicago, ?
::.. heads the American ? Security Council,
originally a private loyalty-security black- .
:? list operation since expanded into a .re-
r search organization that promotes right-
? :wing causes through radio programs and
, a newsletter. Fisher heads the council's
. affiliate, the conservative Freedom Studies
Center pear Culp?eper; Va., as Well. -;
BARNEY!', listed as president of the
National Strategy Information. Center,
Inc., formerly was research director of
the Richardson Foundation, supporter of
many conservative causes, and now op-
erates right-wing "strategy seminars!'
around the country.
. Emmett is chairman of .the American..
..' Friends of the Captive Nations, a group,
,? representing political refugees chiefly; ,
from East European Communist coun-','
?,: tries.
r Martin, a speech writer for Senator
?i :Thomas J. Dodd (Dem.), Connecticut,
? was an early participant, in the Freedom '
-..% Studies Center. ? i
D
-, ' A 'number of the charter members' of ?
he new committee were leaders of 'an
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. nformal coalition of conservatives and
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:. ktrongly anti-Communist liberals that suP- :
iorted the containment policies of the
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Spokesmen for a group of Iligh-ranking former government officials that has strongly
indorsed the United States involvement in Vietnam, issuing a policy, statement at a
press conference in Washington yesterday. in the group (from left) are: General of'
the Army Omar Bradley; Mrs. Oswald Lord, former delegate to the United Nations,
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and former Senator Paul Douglas (Dern) Illinois.
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Truman and Eisenhower Admin- ? -- -
istrations at the height of the II ? ANINITIAt. policy statement
cold _'war. Both former Presi- ?I gave -unqualified support to the
dents are also ,members. Johnson Administration's ores-
Among those who figured in pres-
ent policy and conduct of the
?
the' cold war coalition were war, including the line, empha-
sized repeatedly in the last two
, Dean Acheson, former Secre-
I tary of- State; Thurman Arnold, :weeks by the President, Vice
former Solicitor General of the President. Hubert H. . Humphrey
ited States Gen. Lucius P. ana:?Secretary of :State Dean
Un
ed
now senior partner 0.f . . Rusk;?that the U.S. has a "vital
national interest" at stake in
Lehman Brothers; Dr. James ,
States
B. Conant, former United Vietnam 'because of the aggres- :
. sive and expansionist policy of
Ambassador to Germany' and i,
Communist China.
former president 'of Harvard . . I . .
The, statement suggested that,
University; Paul R. porter, now If Ithe;:United States abandoned :
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a Washington lawyer; Lewis L. Vietnam "Peking and Hanoi,
Strauss, 'former chairman of flushed " with success" would
the Atomic Energy Commission,' "continue t h e i i expansionist
'and Abbott Washburn, former . policy, through many other ?
deputy director of the United ? 'War's-Of national liberation.' "
States Information agency.. ? Named as possible victims were
Former. Senator Paul H. ! Binirna; .,Malaysia, Indonesia,
Douglas (Dem.), Illinois', who : Ausfraliar?and New Zealand.
says he conceived the idea of": ? ..Aniong,???the ? academic mem-.
the new committee, is a liberal bers::pf the pew group, most .
in,dornestic matters. In foreign : havg;already'stated their strong
arfai?s, he has advocated hard- ' support for the Administration's .
line..?-anti-Communis?m and took ;
Vietnam policy. These include
,a :leading role in keeping the :
. Communist regime in China out 1.,I Dr,?;?Harry D. Gideonse, chan-?
cellor:', of the new School for
of the. United Nations.
'Ai-.organizing Social. Research; Dr. Edmund
S-zorganizing ch air m an,
Douglas told a press. conference 'I A. GnItion, former ambassador
yesterday . that the committee ..! to The Congo. and now dean of
. ,.. .; the Fletcher School of Law and
: was -not committed to support
, Prestdent Lyndon B. Johnson, : ,,4iplomacy at Tufts University; ?.-
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? . 1 but-was supporting ."the office :, .t.),.r?:?:,?."?qScar Handlin, director of' ;
tne -i-aarles Warren Center for
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of California; Dr. James B.
Conant, former president of
Harvard University and former
Ambassador to Germany; Prof.
George E. Taylor, director of
the FarEastern and Russian
Institute, University of Wash-
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ington, and Frank N. Trager,
professor of international af-
fair, New York University.
It was disclosed last year that
a book by Trager strongly sup-
porting American intervention
in ;Vietnam was subsidized by
the -"United States Information
Agency.
OTHER ACADEMICIANS in-
clude Allan Nevins, the histo-
rian; Prof. Milton Sachs of
Brandeis University; Dr. Paul
Seabury, professor of political
science at the University of
California; Dr. Frederick Seitz,.
preiident of the National Acad-
emy of Science; Dr. Harold C.
Urey, professor of chemistry-
at-large, University of Cali-
formia, and Eugene P. Wigner,
prefessor of physics at Prince-
ten?University.
'-:S6eral members of the new
c,frOVP are closely identified with
Mt:i-Jehnson. One of these is ,
Archbishop Robert E. Lucey of '
San- .Antonio, a friend of the
Vresident, who has denounced
nein: his pulpit critics of the
.Vietnam war:
'Wither is James H. Rowe
Washington lawyer who
opoci.a1 Ossistant to Presii- ?
040 ,Franklin D. Roogevelt,
itow,e is an old friend the Presi-
'Ont. Johnson and frequently
takes' assignments as a trouble
Ltiooter.
Writers who have joined the
group include . Holmes Alex-
ander, Ralph McGill and Roscoe .
; Drummond, syndicated colum-
nists; Marc Connelly, the play-
wright; Eric Holier, the essay
' ist and longshoreman; ? Howard
K., Smith, news analyst and
commentator; Ralph Ellison::
author, and. James T. Farrell,
tie author. ?
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