WEISS TURNS TO AN INDICTMENT OF VIETNAMESE WAR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01365R000300060024-5
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• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 30, 2006
• Sequence Number: 24
• Publication Date: February 22, 1970
• Content Type: NSPR

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1,ONGED WAR OF LAZIER- projections
ATION IN VIETNAM AND through a
THE EVENTS LEADING
UP TO IT AS ILLUS RA-
TEON OF THE NECESSITY
FOR ARMED RESISTANCE
AGAINST OPPRESSION
AND ON THE ATTEMPTS
OF THE UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA TO Dl-
:STROY THE FOUNDA-
TIONS OF REVOLUTION.
A play by Peter Weiss.
Translated from the Ger-
man by Geoffrey Skelton.
Also a short play, "SONG
OF THE LUSITANIAN
BOGEY," translated from
the German by Lee Baxan-
(fall. Atheneum Press. 249
pages, $6.95.
The very long title fixes in
the mind that this play is by
the author of the 1965 success,
also with a very long title,
familiarly known as "Marat/
Sade." Weiss' drama, a pag-
eant covering the period from
legendary times through 1964,
tells the heartbreaking story
of a land which for more than
2,000 years has been crushed
between the tipper and nether,
grindstones of exploiter and
invader. The play, which had
its world premiere in Frank-
I fort am Main in March, 1968,
should arouse great interest
in the country, and keep
alight the already kindled
fires of controversy-if it is
produced by a brilliantly
imaginative director.
The proviso is of the utmost
y
n
e
cal
Importance, for "Discourse on g, Wall Street, where peace often
Vietnam" (or possibly "Viet- very slow reading. I suppose the political research depart-
it is the hope of Mr. Weiss seems to be bullish.
nam/U.S.A") is a play that it will force the actor, anent of our university. To,
that Senator John F. Kennedy is ether with experienced mem-
In the theater will either be a In memorizing his role, to g
monotonous most intolerable provocative himself decide upon a strong cansonof thet~nlay w.hoAargue p rtsthln guerrilla warfare
al
indictment. Unusual in form, and appropriate inflection. ; that the wars necessary, not we drew tip a detailed plan for
it demands unusual treatment. Pevice makes chara a a cters usu similar ] becansc the northern regime the administration of South
The 15 actors who lay th'~ device. Ills c ha-
play perhall 01-11s, use is intrinsically evil but on the Vietnam. The first task in
great n u m her of parts ?,said " never "rcpilc1l," contrary because, since the Saigon is to set up a state,
throughout the ages represent-, "wondered," "asked" or "dc- north, In winning the support I lice department with the fol- i
ed in the play are dist.in- n,nnded," even in conjunction and freedom oft.hepeople, oth owing institutions-interroga-
guished by the color of their with a rluest ion. `t'hus the or "CctrtnrinI A" nations will' tion rooms, internment camps,
dress. Those in black are the writer is able to remain be encouraged: "Only our con- laboratories. The card index
natives of the country; those' neutral, not adding his weight, pleto personal commitment' containing details of over 600,-
in white the aggressors and I to significance which should; can overcome an enemy who is 000 criminal and subversive
,,"their' ? Vietnam'~?; vas:'fa? . be,inherent inthe, words., ,,?,4 I evoryv~hore. and at the aam. e> -ments wiU?be adapted from , 14 v1O R UC D C4Dt911t1>t!71i
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invaders up to 1950 when the has the sympathies of the peo-
United States formally prom- plc and is supported by the
ised its support of France In people. Now is the time for
tiro war in Indochina. The thought and reappraisal. On
second. concerns the American our decision depends the peace
prosecution of the war after ; of the world. To Mike Mans-
the fall of Dion Bien Phu and field's question: "What in the
the Geneva treaty of 1954. The I opinion of the honorable Jun- {
conMassachusetts I
Conk Congress in with give assent full iwould wsenator ould the of
sequence of. 4
power to President Johnson congressional consent?" Ken-
"to act in the way he consid- nay replies: "The cone-
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ent and necessary for
ens ur
ld b
g
e war.
uence wou
the defense of freedom." doubt that Senator Mansfield
Every justification for Amer- ever spoke of the senator "of"
Iran intervention, some now Massachusetts. Other infelici-
t4hno st forgotten, is revived, } tics of translntldn are the
1 tificatinn of Nelson Rocke-
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