FORMER FPC OFFICIAL CRITICIZES U.S. STAND

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 7, 2010
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: September 3, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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Criticizes U0S. Stand
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ratified by the Senate."
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Viet Nam never were ly formal actions of the U.S. Y
U.S. was committed b the
government, former Federal
Power Commissioner Howard
Morgan told a gathering of 200
persons at Reed College
Morgan, taking part in
Reed-sponsored review of the
Southeast Asian war and the
circumstances which led up to
it, said . powerful interest
groups inside and outside gov-
ernment originally promised
American support of the South
Vietnamese government.. He
added that the American peo-
ple were never aware the
commitments ' were being
made, during. and since the
period .just after the 1954
Geneva treaty which .ended
the French=Viet Minh strug-
gle: Nam.
individuals including the
China lobby, religious leaders,
private corporations, then-See-
retary of State, John Foster
Dulles and his brother Allen,
head of the Central Intelli-
gence Agency, and, `among
(hers 3nseph P. Kennedy,
Morgan said.
Morgan observed that the
U.S. now is faced with having
to support these commitments
and, though it will not help
the present sitpation'to look
back, it can help .is in the
"next one," he concluded.
Leader Plays Golf
Morgan said' of, the time,
"We had a nice guy in the
White House who played golf
while others ran the shop."
The others had axes to grind,
Empitasizing' that rational
congressional deliberation of
American commitments was
needed, ,M said, ."I are
convinced .that'' (a for par,
large, intelligent group"'
9u stioning Viet Nam policy"
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een:
The'
in-_
terested individuals' personal'
agreements maneuvered
through embassies of third
party nations,he,said.
gathering were Portland State.
College history professor'
A. Raymond Grant, Methodist'
Bishop of Portland.
After reviewing the history
of Viet Nam since the mid-
19th Century, Webb said the
series of governments in Viet
Nam had been created
through U.S. military fiat and
never through a vote of the
Vietnamese people, althouth
the Geneva treaty had origi-
nally called for free elections
in both. North and South Viet,
military might will eventually"
prevail over the Viet Cong?
guerrilla forces, said the'U.S,
involvement ' in South Viet
Nam reflects its policy of con
tainment of China. 'To my~
mind . (containment) i s ,
Bishop Grant said the
Vietnamese war "leaves me
confused, baffled and often dis-
out is disloyalty," he empha-
sized. '
told the group, "1 am very.
glad they've done what'
wrlting to congressional repro-
sentatives and said, "What we,