THE WAR IN VIETMAN

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THE WAR IN VIETNAM
Mr. MORSE. Mr. President, yester-
day morning I appeared on the "Today"
Co. network on the subject of the war in
Vietnam. This broadcast inspired more
mail than I usually receive on this sub-
ject, though it has come in steadily in
support of my position.
I ask unanimous consent to have vari-
ous communications printed at this point
in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD.
There being no objection, the letters,
telegrams, and articles were ordered to
be printed in the RECORD, as follows:
In southeast Asia-no escalation without
representation. Why is the U.S. Senate
powerless to assert its democratic and con-
stitutional prerogative against President
Johnson and Secretary of Defense McNamara
in their war which is being paid by our
money and the lives of our sons? This is
to say nothing of the suffering we are causing
in Vietnam. I am ashamed.
But how grateful I am for your tremen-
dous effort, Senator MORSE. Please continue.
(I know you will.) We are behind you.
Yours,
Mrs. IRENE HOGLUND.
CONCORD, MASS.
DEAR SIR: Millions of Americans agree:
You are right, the United Nations should
take the place of Cabot Lodge, not a general.
JAMES ROBERTS.
CLEVELAND, OHIO.
CHAMPAIGN, ILL., June 25, 1964.
WAYNE MORSE,
Senate Office Building,
Washington, D.C.:
Thank you for your courageous statement
about southeast Asia on "Today" program.
JOHN J. DEBOER.
WICHITA, KANS., June 25, 1964.
U.S. SENATOR WAYNE MORSE,
Senate Office Building,
Washington, D.C.:
As a World War U combat veteran with
four children, and a member of one of
America's founding families, I wholeheartedly
support you on the southeast Asian situa-
President, Town and Country Mobile
Homes, Wichita, Hans.
SEATTLE, WASH., June 24, 1964.
DEAR SENATOR.MORSE: Many thanks for
your expressions of opinion on southeast
Asia. I am for you all the way. Wish you
were a Senator from Washington State so
that I could vote for you.
With sincere admiration,
Mrs. SIGRID HARRIS.
Senator WAYNE B. MORSE,
U.S. Senate,
Washington, D.C.
DEAR SENATOR MORSE: All of America owes
you a debt of gratitude for it seems that
your voice is the only sane one in all
of Washington concerning the U.S. policies
and actions In South Vietnam.
Please continue your efforts to halt the
war in Vietnam and bring the problems
faced there to the conference table. I feel
that millions of Americans wholeheartedly
support you in these efforts.
My husband, Dr. Thein Wah, and my
father, Mr. Alphonse Hvalgren (705 Locust
St., Prophetstown, Ill.), concur with me In
the attitude I have expressed above.
Sincerely yours,
EDITH HVALGREN WAH.
SAN ANTONIO, TEx.
SANTA MONICA, CALIF.,
June 24,1964.
Senator WAYNE MORSE
HONORABLE SIR: I could only wish that
there were more Senators like you and Sen-
ator GRUENING.
Your courage to speak your mind on our
Government's policy and actions in South
Vietnam and other areas, is admirable.
Why can't we let the people of those
countries settle their own problems?
Thank you for your wonderful stand
for justice.
Sincerely,
Senator WAYNE MORSE,
Washington, D.C.
DEAR MR. MORSE: This is to express our
heartiest support to your courageous stand
on our involvement in Vietnam.
Our country must be steered away from
its collision course, a course that will lead
us, very soon now, to a world disaster.
The latest actions of the administration
to escalate the war should alarm all of us.
Your statements on this question give people
courage to,fight and a feeling of optimism
that perhaps peace and moderation can still
win out.
So keep up the fight. There are more and
more people beginning to see how close we
can be to disaster and are willing to act.
Sincerely,
MENLO PARK, CALIF., June 24, 1964.
Senator WAYNE MORSE,
Washington, D.C.
DEAR SENATOR MORSE: Your speech regard-
ing Vietnam 4s very fine. Let's learn the
ways of peace.
Sincerely,
CHICAGO, ILL., June 23, 1964.
Hon. WAYNE MORSE,
U.S. Senate Office Building,
Washington, D.C.
SIR: Your foreign policy statements which
have been promulgated by the press recently
seem to indicate your possession of an un-
usual Insight into the facts and circum-
stances of U.S. involvement in the Far East.
I would greatly appreciate your sending
me a list, of publications wherein I could
read a fuller exposition of facts and views
similar to those you publicly express. These
would hopefully include contemporary books
that expose the true situation behind Ameri-
can foreign maneuvers.
Thank you and best wishes for future po-
litical success at a higher level.
Sincerely,
WILLIAM MARSHALL OWEN.
Senator WAYNE L. MORSE,
Senate Office Building,
Washington, D.C.
DEAR SENATOR MORSE: After watching you
on Walter Cronkite's CBS news tonight, I
was prompted to write the enclosed letter to
President Johnson.
Please continue to fight for peace. You
have my best wishes.
Yours truly,
Mrs. GERI EVANS.
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JUNE 23, 1964.
President LYNDON B. JOHNSON,
White House,
Washington, D.C.
DEAR MR. PRESIDENT: I have been a lifelong
Democrat, but, if you speed up the war in
South Vietnam, I cannot, in good conscience,
vote for you.
I endorse Senator MORSE'S views on south-
east Asia and urge you to be a Democratic
President that seeks peace and not war.
Yours truly,
PITTSBURGH, PA.,
June 23, 1964.
Senator WAYNE MORSE,
Senate Office Building,
Washington, D.C.
DEAR SENATOR MORSE: I wish to express
my deep appreciation for myself and my
family for your courageous opposition to
the extension of the war in southeast Asia.
I have read your excellent speech in the
Senate on March 4 and would be happy to
receive copies of any later statements you
may have made.
Newspaper coverage of your and other
Senators' attacks on administration policy in
in South Vietnam has been poor, but I have
heard several of your statements on TV.
Keep up the good work.
Sincerely yours,
LINCOLN WOLFENSTEIN.
NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y.,
June 23, 1964.
The Honorable WAYNE MORSE,
U.S. Senator,
Senate Office Building,
Washington, D.C.
DEAR SENATOR: I have had considerable
difficulty acquiring complete detailed reports
of your remarks on the role of the United
States In southeast Asia, in particular on the
Indochinese peninsula. I would very much
appreciate copies of your remarks on these
matters. In addition I would be interested
in your opinions regarding the appointment
of General Taylor to the post in South Viet-
nam.
If I have correctly understood the sketchy
reports of your remarks on the role of the
United States in Laos especially, and also in
South Vietnam, I would like to express my
hearty agreement with and support for your
position. It seems to me that it is the
United States which threatens the peace in
Asia at the present time, most outrageously
in the flurry of aggressive, and highly ir-
responsible statements of recent days on the
possibility of initiating open, hot war against
China and North Vietnam and the Pathet
Lao forces in Laos. Our Nation's words and
deeds show continued and flagrant contempt
for all past and present efforts to find peace-
ful settlements, to end civil wars setting back
badly needed economic development for
decades.
Indeed, it Is hard to understand our policy
in Asia, to understand just who makes de-
cisions with what long-range and presum-
ably, consistent goals. The very thought of
the United States "carrying the war fur-
ther" inspires, at least in my mind, a mixture
and fear, shame and growing anger.
I very much hope your efforts to publicize
the nature and implications of the U.S. pol-
icy in southeast Asia are successful. Un-
fortunately, it is more urgently important
that practical steps be taken to check dan-
gerous and irrevocable words and deeds.
Let me thank you for all you may be able
to do In these respects and for what you
have already done.
I am a graduate student In economics and
will be continuing my studies at Yale Uni-
versity this September.
Yours sincerely,
RICHARD D. WOLFF.
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CLINTON, N.Y., June 24, 1964.
MY DEAR SENATOR MORSE. I was delighted
to hear of your speech before the Senate on
radio yesterday. I know you've made plenty
of them recently but I've never heard or seen
a word anywhere before.
Thank you for your great efforts on behalf
of our boys and the Vietnamese people. I
clipped this item from the New York Times
Saturday and send it on to you. I also
bought an extra paper to get it with a letter
to President Johnson.
Sincerely yours,
. - FRANK SLATER.
if Communist oriented now, always a moder-
ating influence in the long run-cf. Russia).
It had seemed to us that the United States
could represent itself in a most enlightened
and inevitably influential manner by with-
drawing from southeast Asia (or by merging
into a United Nations agency), by allowing
the people to determine their own course
(which would probably be communistic
now), and then by offering encouragement
and scientific-political-educational-etc. as-
sistance when, in the future, they had
evolved to the point where they were ready
for a new or "more advanced" form of gov-
ernment (much as the Soviet Union has
evolved, under bettering economic and edu-
cational conditions, from a revolutionary
extremism to a more self-confident and self-
content moderation).
Thus, when we learned of the decision to
"hold fast" irrevocably in southeast Asia, we
were chagrined. Not only is there the risk
of escalation and even of nuclear war with
the Chinese, but the point of the decision
did not seem to be directed toward what
would seem to be our main purpose in
southeast Asia: self-determination of -the
southeast Asians. Is the effort to halt the
Chinese and the Communists an inseparable
part of the effort to assure self-determina-
tion to the southeast Asians?
Some of the questions which perplex us
are:
1. Would the peoples of Laos and South
Vietnam determine a form of government
"suitable to us" if we successfully held back
the Communists?
2. In spite of all the material wealth we
can invest in southeast Asia, are the people
ready (re culture, education. etc.) for democ-
racy? Or are we ready to accept other
forms of government: communism, social-
ism, benevolent monarchism, military dic-
tatorship, etc.?
3. Will China not challenge our nuclear
forces? Or is southeast Asia comparable to
Berlin?
4. Is U.S. "determination" not -aiding
southeast Asia less than it is fanning Com-
munist revolutionary zeal and xenophobia
in Asia toward a "belligerent," militaristic
United States? Is it In our interest toward
international understanding and harmony to
nurture hate (compare characteristics of
mass movements in Eric Hoffer's "The True
Believer"), or does our determination breed
less hate than respect?
5. Are political motives involved (in our
national scene) and, if so, are they worth
it (though it would almost seem worth it
if it could "defuse" and defeat Senator
GOLDWATER-in many ways a worse threat
than the Chinese).
in any case, the administration seems to
have facts which run counter to those which
we can derive from public media. We feel
bewildered in our Ignorance, and concerned
to know the facts as they are available.
What information have you available
which may clarify and substantiate your
position on southeast Asia? We would ap-
preciate any printed material of your own,
and/or references to current books, periodi-
cals, or pamphlets dealing objectively and
informatively with the problem.
Thank you for your attention.
Sincerely yours,
EDWARD N. HUGGINS,
Instructor of English, University of
Puget Sound.
Senator WAYNE MORSE,
Senate Office Building,
Washington, D.C.
[From the New York Times, June 20, 1964]
SCIENTISTS SCORE UNITED STATES ON CHEMICAL
WARFARE
CAMBRIDGE, MASS., June [9.-The Federa-
tion of American Scientists today called on
President Johnson to halt all development
and production of chemical and biological
weapons.
"There is ample evidence that the U.S.
Government is engaged in a large-scale effort
to develop and produce lethal biological and
chemical weapons," the federation said.
"It appears likely that the principal targets
would be civilian populations rather than
military personnel. We find this morally
repugnant."
The federation's statement was given out
at a news conference in the office of Prof.
Alex Rich at the Masachusetts Institute of
Technology.
The statement said: "We are concerned
with reports of the field use of chemical
weapons in Vietnam. Reports that defoli-
ating agents have been used to destroy pro-
tective cover have been confirmed by repre-
sentatives of the Department of Defense.
"These charges give rise to the broader
implication that the United States is using
the Vietnamese battlefields as a proving
ground for chemical and biological warfare.
TACOMA, WASH., June 23, 1964.
Senator WAYNE MORSE,
State Capitol Building,
Salem, Oreg.
DEAR SENATOR MORSE: My wife and I are
very much inclined toward your position on
southeast Asia, but we feel inadequately in-
formed. Your suggestion that we are violat-
ing the United Nations Charter by our actions
in southeast Asia has seemed valid. Further,
we seem to be obstructing rather than aiding
popular political development in Laos and
southwest Vietnam. Are we misinformed?
Is the administration not acting on a judi-
cious appraisal of more complete information
(not only military, but cultural, psycholog-
ical, etc.) than has been made evident
through news media?
In the past few months, from Newsweek
magazine and from television news (largely
CBS), we have grown (in spite of lullaby
propaganda) toward the following hy-
potheses :
1. That the U.S. presence in southeast Asia
is hardly assuring the Asians the right of
self-determination; this right would seem to
be what Americans would be fighting for
most of all.
2. That the peoples of Laos and South
Vietnam hardly exhibit the cultural or edu-
cational readiness for democratic self-deter-
mination, which is the kind of determina-
tion which we seem to be promoting.
3. That the popular movement (i.e., that
supported by the majority of active citizens
and most in harmony with their aspirations
at this stage of their social, political, eco-
nomic, etc., development) is best represented
at this time by the Communists. Even in
spite of careful rhetoric to the contrary in
Newsweek magazine, the people of North
Vietnam appear-for Asians--to be very well
off: active, dedicated, with a rising standard
of material well-being and of education (even
Senator WAYNE MORSE,
Senate Office Building,
Washington, D.C.
DEAR SIR: If only there were more Senators
like you who would speak out against what
practically amounts to a declaration of war
in Vietnam. It is unspeakably awful.
Thank you.
P. KLINGHOFFER.
, MY DEAR SENATOR MORSE: We are gratefully
relying on you to call out opposition to U.S.
military trust into Laos.
For ourselves it will end in futility even if
we escape a third world war. For native
populations it will add cruel suffering to
their misery. Communism couldn't be worse
than war.
Sincere thanks,
Senator WAYNE MORSE,
Senate Office Building,
Washington, D.C.:
I am all for your stand- on cessation of our
stand on South Vietnam.
B. GALNESON.
Senator WAYNE MORSE,
Senate Office Building,
Washington, D.C.
DEAR SENATOR: I wish to commend you for
the courage you show in your forthright
statements about South Vietnam. I hope
you make a national tour to arouse the
people.
Respectfully yours,
Senator WAYNE MORSE,
Senate Office Building,
Washington, D.C.
DEAR SENATOR: I fully support your posi-
tion concerning our role in South Vietnam.
It seems as though we are about to step up
our war offensive in that area. The results
could be tragic. I admire your courage and
urge you continue your fight for withdrawal
or neutralization.
Sincerely yours,
BENNINGTON, VT., June 25, 1964.
Senator WAYNE MORSE,
Senate Office Building,
Washington D.C.:
Your interview on the "Today" program
this morning was an inspiration.
FERN OLSON.
NEW YORK, N.Y., June 25, 1964.
Senator WAYNE MORSE,
Washington, D.C.:
Thank you for your courageous and factual
presentation on "Today" We are grateful,
please, again and again and again the facts.
Mr. and Mrs. ARTHUR W. DANA.
BRUNSWICK, MAINE., June 25, 1964.
Senator WAYNE MORSE,
Senate Office Building,
Washington, D.C.
DEAR SENATOR MORSE: Living since World
War I, I was heartbroken by General Taylor's
appointment. Now listening to your mar-
velous NBC speech, I take courage, The U.N.
is the answer for this world catastrophe in-
to which we are headed. I pray you make it
your immediate duty to rally all the mil-
lions who agree with you that are speechless.
May you have continued strength and wis-
dom.
Gratefully,
GERTRUDE TIEMER WILLE.
RED BANK, N.J., June 25, 1964.
Senator WAYNE MORSE,
Senate Office Building,
Washington, D.C.:
Re "Today" June 25, the only correct an-
alysis re southeast Asia expressed by any, re-
peat any, Member of the Senate or Congress
was expressed by you this day. Your state-
ment on the subject should be rebroadcast
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on the hour every` hour throughout this
Nation until the American people wake up
to the fact that they are violating the laws
set forth iri the U.N. Charter and 'are thus
selling out a lot of boys who died in two wars.
EDITH W. AYKENS.
HIGHLAND PARK, N.J? June 2$,1964.
Senator WAYNE MORSE,
Senate Office lluildirig,
Washington,-'D.C.
MY DEAR SENATOR: Your program this
morning on "Today" was most enlightening.
It would be wonderful if all of us could help
you get the message of South Vietnam across
to the Nation.
With kindest regards,
KEVIE SCHULMAN.
Los ANGELES, CALIF., June 25, 1964.
Senator, WAYNE MORSE,
Senate OJ#ce Building,
Washington, D.C.:
Forgive the silence of necessity. I envy
the Oregonians their Senator MORSE, an hon-
_est, courageous, brilliant, independent who is
a Democrat with a small "d" and American
with a, capital "A." Keep up the magnificent
work for the loyal opposition.
Mrs. MARY CLARK.
".ANGELES, CALIF.,
June 24, 1964.
Senator WAYNE MORSE,
U.S. Senate,
Washington, D.C.:
My family support your courageous oppo-
sition war in Vietnam. Continue speaking
out.
ROSEMARY LUSHER.
Los ANGELES, CALIF.,
June 24,"1964.
Senator WAYNE MORSE,
U.S. Senate,
Washington, D.C.:
Beg you continue your opposition war in
Vietnam: America will be proud of you.
ALBERT MALTZ.
DANVERS, MASS., June 25, 1964.
Senator WAYNE MORSE,
Senate Office Building,
Washington, D.C.:
`Endorse heartily your views re Vietnam ex-
pressed "Today's" show. Please continue ef-
forts, for saner policy, especially United Na-
tions participation.
Dr. WM. M. GOLDBERG.
ALBION, MICH., June 24, 1964.
Senators WAYNE MORSE,
Senator from- Oregon,
U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C.:
Congratulations again on your 'protest
against war with Red' China. I am protest-
ing to the President.
ARTHUR W. OUNK, Ph. D.
SEATy'LE,'WASH., June 25, 1964.
Senator WAYNE MORSE,
Washington, D.C.:,
Have been in te doghouse for-6 months
for opinions such as you express. If there is
anyone in our section still available to openly
talk with, please inform, me.
MrS. H. B. ANDERS.
PALOS YERDES ESTATES, CALIF.,
June 25, 1964.
Senator WAYNE MORSE,
Washington, D.C.'
SIR: Heard your strong stand this morn-
1ng on "Today's" show. As a mother of two
,boys in Army, what can I do as loyal fellow
.. . CHICAGO, ILL., June 25, 1964.
Senator WAYNE MORSE,
Senate Office Building,
Washington, D.C.:
I fully endorse your unequivocal state-
ments on Vietnam on "Today" program.
We need more statesmen with the courage
and convictions like you and Senator Put-
BRIGHT to arouse public opinion.
H. P. REMPERT.
DAYTON, OHIO, June 25, 1964.
Senator WAYNE MORSE,
Congressional Building,
Washington, D.C.:
Your comments on "Today" show most
timely. Back you 100 percent.
C. CONovER and T. SMALLWOOD.
PORTOLA VALLEY, CALIF.,
June 25, 1964.
Senator WAYNE MORSE,
Senate Office Building,
Washington, D.C.:'
Heard you on "Today" show. Agree in
every respect. Am sure you could get signa-
tures of most everyone in America on a peti-
tion. Please tell me what I can do.
MARY WINKLER.
ANDERSON, IND., June 23, 1964.
DEAR SENATOR MORSE: A agree with you 100
percent on the Vietnam situation. If the
Government over there were any good we
would not have to worry about their being
taken over. I don't know of any really good
government yet, that ever fell to the Com-
munist.
It also seems clear to me that the military
takeover in South Korea proves that our
boys over there died in vain. I hope you
will keep up the fight and that we won't
make a far bigger mistake in Vietnam, I
think the policy of the British is about the
best of any country I know of. We have two
fine Senators in Indiana now, but don't be-
lieve they have the wonderful courage that
you have.
Yours truly,
VEACHEL SMITH.
JUNE 24, 1984.
DEAR SENATOR MORSE: Your inexhaustible
and courageous stand against our participa-
tion in an undeclared war in Vietnam has
won you the admiration and respect of
every peaceloving American.
I, for one, sin deeply grateful that our
Country has produced a man of your caliber
and convictions.
I salute you for your genuine interest and
'concern` for the peace and well-being of
your fellow citizens.
We will support you to the nth degree
in this vital issue.
With sincere gratitude,
Mrs. A. BRENNER.
NEW YORK, N.Y.
THE POMMUNITY CHURCH OF BOSTON, _
Boston, Mass., June 24, 1964.
Senator LEVERETT SALTONSTALL,
Senate Office Building,
Washington, D.C.
DEAR SENATOR SALTONSTALL: The decision
of Senator MORSE not to confirm the ap-
pointment of Gen. Maxwell Taylor as Am-
bassador to South Vietnam meets with my
wholehearted approval. ;The implication of
this appointment is that a military approach
to the problem of that unhappy country Is
the policy of our Government. I believe that
our approach should be a political one -rased
upon a decision to negotiate the issue with
the interested parties. The defeat of the
French Army in Vietnam was a demonstra-
tion that the military approach is doomed
to failure and now, In light of greater com-
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plications at the preseiit time, is dangerous
to the peace of the world.
As a matter of fact, the sending of Ameri-
can troops to die in South Vietnam is a
policy that I cannot support. The hypocrisy
of our helping to kill the people of South
Vietnam in the name of its liberation while
our own citizens are deprived of the right
to vote and are dying to preserve the right
to vote in Mississippi is both tragic and
hypocritical. When it comes to liberation
we should begin at home in Mississippi
rather than 10,000 miles away. If armed
forces are to be used for purposes of libera-
tion, let them be taken out of South Vietnam
and be sent to Mississippi.
Sincerely,
Rev. DONALD G. LOTHROP.
BROOKLYN, N.$.,
June 23, 1964.
DEAR SENATOR MORSE: I have just written
to President Johnson protesting the con-
tinuation of the war in southeast Asia and
the appointment of General Taylor as our
Ambassador there. We should get out of
southeast Asia,. and sit down at the nego-
tiating table with China and other interested
nations to seek the neutralization of Laos
and Vietnam. Thank you for leading the
fight against this wretched war. You have
many admirers and supporters who wish
you full strength to continue your campaign.
Sincerely,
MIRIAM KELBER.
CHICAGO, ILL., June 23, 1964.
SENATOR WAYNE MORSE,
U.S. Senate,
Washington, D.C.
MY DEAR SENATOR MORSE: I certainly agree
with you that President Johnson is "making
the United States the world's leading threat
to world peace." In a speech yesterday you
insisted he should take up the issue with
Congress, which alone has the right to make
war. You stated further that "No President
is alone entitled to threaten war or to com-
mit the United States to war." I want to
commend you for your speech denouncing
the present warlike policy.
The nomination today of General Taylor
to succeed Henry Cabot Lodge as Ambassador
to South Vietnam is very disturbing. This
nomination looks like a step toward war. I
hope the Senate will take a long, hard look
at General Taylor when his nomination
comes up for approval.
Very truly yours,
CHICAGO, ILL., June 24, 1964.
Senator WAYNE MORSE,
Senate, Washington, D.C.
DEAR WAYNE MORSE: Wholeheartedly agree
with your stand on Vietnam and applaud
your position on having a general sent as
our Ambassador to Vietnam.
, i1Qw can ordinary citizens such as myself
assist you?
Sincerely,
MILITARY AID GOES TO BANGKOK
WASHINGTON.-Four cargo ships bearing
tanks, armored personnel carriers, and other
heavy military equipment are now steaming
toward Bangkok. The equipment reportedly
is to resupply U.S. stocks there.
DEAR SENATOR MORSE: I iecently read your
letter in Four Lights published by WILPF
and am so thrilled to think that some one
has the same belief as I about South Viet-
nam. And I was greatly disturbed to see this
statement by Admiral Felt. Does he realize
that all-out war would mean the end of civil-
ization and would mean the loss of perhaps
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over a billion )Jves? War is unthinkable.
It has never been the solution. History
proves that.
I should like you to send him some pub-
lications of United World Federalists, Inc.,
1319 14th Street NW? Washington, D.C.
Send me the bill.
Mrs. Rom G. YEAGER.
PHOENIX, ARIZ.
P.S -Keep up the good work for us all.
God bless you.
ARMED U.S. JETS OVER Laos
WASHINGTON.-The U.S. Air Force, it was
learned today, has been flying reconnaissance
missions over Laos with heavily armed jet
escorts.
UNITED STATES WOULD RISK ALL-OUT WAR
TAIPEI, FORMOSA.-Adm. Harry Felt, leav-
ing his post here as commander in chief of
U.S. Forces in the Pacific, states the United
States would risk even all-out war to check
Communist aggression In southeast Asia.
SOMERVILLE, MASS.,
June 23, 1964_
DEAR SENATOR MORSE: I have been follow-
ing the position taken by yourself and far
too few of your colleagues regarding the war
our Government Is waging against the peo-
ple in South Vietnam.
My concern is not only, as you expressed it
today, that the United States will be hated
for the next 500 years, but too that inno-
cent people-Vietnam civilians, and Amer-
icans (soldiers who, God knows, never real-
ly know what it's all about) are being
slaughtered.
Having had the courage to be honest in
your past, I urge you to do all in your power,
with the sanction of your fellow Senators'
who share your views, to bring the issue to
the public and to create dissension and
strong public opinion. These pressure fac-
tors alone can end the war, or at least stop
its expansion. I suggest, If It is in any way
possible, that you and others go on a nation-
wide speaking tour to talk against the war.
That prospect may seem difficult. It is, re-
gardless, imperative.
Sincerely,
HOn. WAYNE MORSE,
U.S. Senator,
DENVER, COLO.,
June 23,1964.
plies, and capture our men who cannot iii-
stantly change their features and language
and escape unnoticed like natives.
Trying to shoot an idea like communism
with a bullet is like shooting in the dark-
we are almost sure to miss our target-and
we might cause disaster unintentionally.
If GoLDwATER wants a war with Panama,
Cuba, Zanzibar, Vietnam, China, minority
races at home and abroad, let him do the
fighting without our support.
Sincerely,
CFIICAGO, ILL.,
June 23, 1964.
The Honorable WAYNE MORSE,
Senator from Oregon,
Senate Office Building,
Washington, D.C.
DEAR SENATOR: I have read with gratifi-
cation your repeated outright speeches in
favor of a peaceful Asiatic policy.
For this reason I am herewith forwarding
copy of my today's letter to President John-
son, in the hope that the peace voices may
triumph.
Sincerely yours,
OTTO WANDER.
CHIOAGO, June 23, 1964.
The Honorable L. B. JOHNSON,
President of the United States,
The White House,
Washington, D.C.
DEAR MR. PRESIDENT: As previously indi-
cated, I consider our intervention in South
Vietnam, Laos, etc., unwarranted and op-
posed to our national interest.
This intervention represents an unde-
clared war in which neither the Congress
nor the people of the United States have
been consulted. It is in violation of the
Big Power agreement, reached after the evac-
uation by the French, looking toward a
plebiscite to reconcile or unify North and
South Vietnam. It is, furthermore in vio-
lation of good military policy which opposes
involvement in continental Asia.
In this nuclear age a modus vivendl with
mainland China must be found as the only
alternative to eventual suicidal war.
I implore you, Mr. President, through your
powers of diplomacy, to lift this cloud from
our future and that of humanity.
Sincerely yours,
OTTO WANDER.
Senate Office Building,
Washington, D.C.
DEAR SENATOR MORSE: Thank you for help-
ing keep us out of war in Asia. Transporting
our men and supplies that far and fighting in
jungles, mountains, valleys, fields, and
heavily populated areas where we have to
make and defend roads to frontlines would
become extremely unpopular.
Slaughtering million of people with
atomic bombs and leaving millions half dead
and suffering would turn civilized nations
against us.
What would we do with 701) million Chinese
in Asia, if we conquered` them? Would we
doctor all of the radioactive and suffering
people or let them gradually die while we
talk about winning the war on poverty? If
we try to prevent communism by winning
the war on poverty that way, most of the
people in the world would rather do it with-
out our help. We would not do ourselves or
them any good with all of that enormous
expense and destruction.
We do not speak the Chinese language or
read their writing. It would be difficult to
distinguish individuals we could trust from
those who would betray us.
What would we do with these Chinese
prisoners and what would they do with the
American prisoners? They have enough
people to wreck our roads, cut off our sup-
NEw YORK, N.Y.,
June 23, 1964.
DEAR SENATOR MORSE: I agree with you
completely on your stand in southeast Asia.
You have a lot of courage and history will
record the sane approach you have in world
affairs of 1964.
The U.S. Government is trying to do what
the French were unable to do in 1954. I'm
afraid that the U.S. Government Is heading
for a situation similar to Korea in 1952
when our troops approached the Yalu River.
The Chinese have millions of soldiers and
I'm afraid that we may provoke Red China
to attack our comparatively meager forces
in southeast Asia.
Keep up the fight. Thinking Americans
are behind you.
Sincerely,
WESLEY METHODIST CHURCH,
Worcester, Mass., June 23, 1964.
The Honorable WAYNE MORSE,
Senate Office Building,
Washington, D.C.
DEAR SENATOR: I commend your efforts,
through the CONGRESSIONAL REcoaD, to make
known the state of affairs that exist In
Vietnam. Enclosed is a copy of a resolution
passed by the New England Conference Of
the Methodist Church, June 11, 1964.
? .i
June 26
This resolution represents my own think-
ing as clearly as I can know it and I send
it to you for whatever use it may be to you.
Most sincerely,
L. VANN ANDERSON, Jr.,
Minister of the Parish.
[Enclosure]
Amendment to the report of the Board
of Social Concerns found on pages 39 ff.
Amendment by addition on page 43 under
subheading "Direct conflict must be
avoided". Amend by adding following para-
graph to become paragraph 2.
In reference to the threat to the peace
in South Vietnam, we would request our
Government to place this dispute before the
United Nations. This procedure would help
implement the rule of law in international
affairs, and would honor our Government's
signature on the Charter of our United Na-
tions. It would also enable our Government
to keep faith with its professions of believing
in the force of law rather than the law of
force in settling international disputes.
Submitted by Mr. Dale S. Fair.
Senator WAYNE MORSE,
Washington, D.C.
DEAR SENATOR MORSE: I am enclosing a
letter in the Times which was designed and
I hope succeeded in furthering your posi-
tion in Vietnam.
Yours very truly,
DAVID MANDEL.
OPEN LETTER TO SECRETARY MCNAMARA ON THE
WAR IN VIETNAM
The New York Times of April 25, 1964 ran
a story headed, "McNamara Agrees To Call
it His War." You were quoted as saying,
"I don't object to its being called 'McNa-
mara's war.' I think it is a very important
war and I am pleased to be identified with
It and do whatever I can to win it."
No American should want a war in his
own name, especially this one which Is not
yet licensed by Congress. Here it is worse
too because the war is against an entire
people. After 10 years of resistance tovastly
superior weapons, the people want it ended.
And we need not fear to leave, for no pup-
pets (not ours or China's) will rule this
brave people.
The policy of the open door for invest-
ments and free enterprise which is back of
our intervention is as dead as the old colo-
nialism. Most of the free world nations
under this policy are now dictatorships.
Under thispolicy we use the usual tools
for coercion--bombs, bribery, billions, and
puppets. And our puppets are never George
Washington-never.
Walter Lippmann (Apr. 9, 1964) compares
us in our Asian policy to "one of those
prehistoric animals which was all armor
and teeth, but had almost no brain." But
France learned the futility of trying to sup-
press a whole people right there in Viet-
nam, With the guns gone on both sides,
our Khanh would not last a day.
Senator MoRsE (Mar. 26, 1964) said, "If
we are not anaggressor nation now in South
Vietnam, we are not far from it * * * there
are no Chinese In South Vietnam. There
are no Russian soldiers in South Vietnam,
The only foreign soldiers In South Vietnam
are U.S. soldiers. What are they doing
there?"
Senators BARTLETT,GRUENING, and MANS-
FIELD have all been critical of American
policy in South Vietnam. .
Prof. Roland Baintin, Yale Divinity
School; Roger W. Burnham, Business-
man, Milford, Conn.; Dr. Jerome Davis,
New Haven; Prof. Thomas I. Emer-
son, Yale University; Rabbi Robert E.
Goldberg, Hamden, Conn.; Rev. Sid-
ney Lovett, director, Yale in China
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Roraback, Attorney, New Haven; Prof. lag was given absolute minimum publicity
Frederick L, Schuman, Williams Col- in New York-I heard. it exactly once on
lege; Rev. Wayne Shuttee, Unitarian the radio.
Church, New Haven; Prof. Ralph E. Respectfully yours,
Turner, Yale University Rev. Wal- JOHN STRAUSS,
lace T. Viets, First MethodisttChurch,
New Haven; Rev. Loyd Worley, Metho- WOODSIDE, CALIF.,
dist Church, Milford, Conn. ,
(Cut out and send this letter to President
Johnson.)
NEW YORK VNIVERSITY,
New York, N.Y., June 21, 1964.
The Honorable LYNDON B. JOHNSON,
The President, the White House,
Washington, D.C.
DEAR MR. PRESIDENT: I have. written already
to my New York State Senators urging that
they support the policies suggested by Sen-
ators MORSE and GRUENINC which could lead
to a peaceful resolution of the dispute over
Vietnam. Nevertheless, I was compelled to
write to you at once by the report in the New
York Times which stated that the admin-
1stration's committment to Vietnam was
being viewed as unlimited.
Mr. President, I admire your repeated
statements to the effect that you are willing
to pursue peace by patient discussion with
the Soviet Union. Furthermore, I recognize
how astutely you have handled the difficult
task of securing congressional support for the
.civil rights bill. If then, we are to accept
your devotion to peace and political sagacity,
how would we explain a continued, and in-
deed increased, committment to a regime
which our newspapers have admitted is op-
pressive and which can secure the backing
of at most a quarter or 30 percent of its peo-
ple and can control only approximately that
proportion in daytime?
As a statesman-politician, you must realize
that it is folly to make unlimited committ-
ments to untenable positions. This fact is
recognized abroad by our allies and at home
by thoughtful Members of Congress. When
the costs are apparent, it will be recognized
by virtually all our people. Before we are
engulfed In a widned war of our own mak-
ing-which may devour our country in nu-
clear war-before we alienate all the world
by continued pursuit of an ill-considered
policy, we urge that you follow a policy
worthy of your statesmanship which will
lead our Nation to peace, as candidate Eisen-
hower promised and later carried out in the
Korean cul de sac.
Respectfully yours,
EDWIN S. CAMPBELL.
PENNSYLVANIA LUMBER & POST CO., INC.
La Vale, Md., June 23, 1964.
Senator WAYNE MORSE
U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C.
DEAR SENATOR MORSE: You are to be con-
gratulated on almost your lone stand on the
southeast Asia situation. You may stand
largely alone from a Government standpoint
but I venture the assertion if the American
people were to vote on it your support would
be overwhelming. "A prophet is with honor
save in his own country."
Respectfully,
W. U. SOLOMON.
BAYSIDE, N.Y.,
June 23, 1964.
Hon. WAYNE MORSE,
Senator from Oregon, Senate Office Building,
Washington, D.C.
DEAR SENATOR MoRsE: Your tiillely warn-
ing against deeper Involvement in southeast
Asia was well taken and to the point. I just
hope that it will not remain a lone voice in
the wilderness,
We seem to be drifting closer and closer
to war and, there is an absolute conspiracy
of silence. Is there no effective way to lodge
a protest against this development, to see
Senator WAYNE MORSE,
Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C.
DEAR SENATOR MORSE: I wish to commend
you on your recent speech opposing our ex-
tension of the war in Vietnam. AS usual,
you have stood up and spoken sense on an
Issue in which the majority seems to go
headlong intd an irresponsible path. Your
speech was cogent, to the point and full of
factual information about a dangerous and
explosive situation. To, continue on our
present course is not only immoral, it is
dangerous and almost certain to end in dis-
aster. I most sincerely hope our leadership
will pay no heed to the screams of the luna-
tics on the right who would shoot from the
hip without giving any thought to the con-
sequences of their actions. I want you to
know that there are many thoughtful
Americans who support your position
strongly.
With best personal'wishes, I am,
Cordially yours,
MIAMI BEACH, FLA.,
June 17, 1964.
DEAR SENATOR: You are, without a doubt,
a great American. I heard your statement
on television and read about you. views on
South Vietnam.
What on earth is Johnson thinking about?
I thought he was supposed to be such a smart
politician. But he is- going to lose the
Democrats millions of votes by getting us,
at best, into another Korea or, at worst, an-
other bomb war.
Does he really believe he can bluff China
and that Russia will not come to China's
aid?
If Johnson is going to do what it looks like
he is going to do, I cannot vote for him. If
fm still alive and not a victim of an atom
holocaust. I hate GOLDWATER but if John-
son persists in this madness, I will not vote.
Again let me tell how much I admire and
respect you. You should be our President.
Sincerely,
EWEN POSTER.
P.S.-I am writing to all my Congressmen,
Senators, and the President.
HERMOSA BEACH, CALIF.,
June 23, 1694.
Senator WAYNE MORSE,
Senate Office Building,
Washington, D.C.
DEAR SENATOR MORSE: We want you to
know that we wholeheartedly support your
efforts to keep our country from plunging
further into war in southeast Asia.
You are performing a great service to the
American people In alerting us to the pos-
sibility that our Government is preparing a
major war behind the scenes.
We know that many other Americans
share with, you the belief that there must
be an alternative to war as the solution to
international conflict.
Our best wishes for your courageous work
in trying to save our country from this dis-
grace.
Yours very truly,
MORRIS HOROWITZ,
JOYCE C. HoRowITZ,
WHITTIER, CALIF.,
June 22, 1964.
DEAR SENATOR MORSE: I want to.enclose a
copy of an advertisement which appeared in
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our local paper last week. We were discuss-
ing this and thought that you might like to
see it because of your splendid work in try-
Ing to end this senseless war In Vietnam.
My husband and I are Quakers and work
with the American Friends Service Commit-
tee and we often look to you for leadership
In so many fields of legislative work. We just
wish there were about, a dozen "WAYNE
MORSES."
Please do keep up your work in trying to
seek a creative solution for the Vietnam
destruction. What do you think about a
neutralization according to the Geneva plan?
Would this be possible?
Cordially yours,
DORIS MILLS,
[From the Whittier (Calif.) News, June 17,
19641
"Two recent South Vietnamese napalm
bombings, which fall Into the brutal cate-
gory,' have grievously hurt the U.S. image
throughout the world. One was widely
dramatized by the publication of an Associ-
ated Press photograph on March 20 which
showed a child in his father's arms, badly
burned by air-launched, jellied, gasoline
bombs which had fired a Vietnamese village.
Publication of the AP photo resulted in the
U.S. Defense Department's acknowledging for
the first time that napalm has been
furnished South Vietnam-under the mili-
tary aid program, and, that it has been
dropped by Vietnamese planes provided by
U.S. assistance plan.
"[Washington Post, Mar. 29, 19641
"DO YOU APPROVE?
"Senator WAYNE MORSE, of Oregon, March
25, 1964:
"'We should never have gone in there, we
should not have stayed in, we should get out
now.'
"Senator ERNEST GRUENING, of Alaska:
"'The time has come to reverse our policy
of undertaking to defend areas such as South
Vietnam. A return of troops to our own
shores should begin.'
"Senator MIKE MANSFIELD, of Montana:
"'There has not been and there does not
exist today a basis in our national Interest
which would justify the assumption of pri-
mary American responsibility in this situa-
tion which might well involve the sacrifice
of a vast number of American lives.'
"Senator WAYNE MORSE, of Oregon, March
30, 1964:
" 'By what right did the Secretary of De-
fense go over to South Vietnam and pledge
U.S. support for a "thousand years, if neces-
sary," in behalf of the American people. He
had no, such right. The American people
should answer him, In no. uncertain terms.'
"Whittier Peace Council recommends im-
mediate withdrawal of all American forces
from southeast Asia and urges settlement of
the. war by the 14-nation Geneva Conference
of 1962 under the auspices of the United
Nations.
"Write President Johnson, Senator KUCHEL,
Senator ENGLE-today. This message is
brought to you by the Whittier Peace Coun-
cil and the following groups:
"Whittier Chapter American Association for
the United Nations, Peace and Service Com-
mittee-First Friends Church, Whitleaf
Monthly Meeting of Friends, Whittier
Friends Unprogramed Meeting, Whittier Area
Women Strike for Peace, Whittier La Mirada
Unitarian Fellowship.
"For further information-or to help defray
cost of this ad-please send requests and
contributions to: Whittier Peace Council, 821
East Sunrise Drive, Whittier, Calif."
Los ANGELES, CALIF.,
June 25, 1964.
Senator WAYNE MORSE.
DEAR SENATOR MORSE: Please accept the ap-
preciation of an old lady for your courage.
Some of my 82 years I have spent in leisurely,
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unconducted travel in all continents except
Australia. I remember the political cam-
paign. of 1896. I voted Democratic first in
1932. In 1960 I could vote for neither. In
1964? The belief in civil rights and anti-
poverty legislation is contradicted by our
foreign policy.
Respectfully,
FLORENCE It. SCHOLL.
PALO ALTO, CALIF.,
June 21, 1964.
President LYNDON B. JOHNSON,
The White House, Washington, D.C.
DEAR MR. PRESIDENT: This headline ap-
peared on the front page of the San
Francisco Chronicle this morning: "U.S.
Would Risk War in Asia" with the following
opening paragraph:
"United Press, Taipei. Adm. Harry D. Felt
said yesterday that the United States is will-
ing to risk an all out war to check Com-
munist aggression in southeast Asia."
Is this top military officer speaking for the
administration or making administration
policy? No man speaks for us who is willing
to risk nuclear war for any purpose what-
soever.
In fact, we consider the continued pres-
ence of U.S. military forces in South Viet-
nam constitutes an immediate threat of
nuclear war.
We agree with Senators like MORSE, GRUkN-
ING, MANSFIELD, and AIKEN that we should
get out of Vietnam-and the sooner, the
safer for the world.
Keep up the good fight.
Cordially yours,
Mr. and Mrs. FRAN& R. KENNELL.
ROWAYTON, CONN.,
June 23, 1964.
Senator WAYNE MORSE,
Senate Office Building,
Washington, D.C.
DEAR SIR: You are a refreshing island of
integrity and courage. Please don't lose
heart.
I wish, too, that you would emphasize
what would be the outcome if we do go ahead
with our grandiose and arrogant plans-
at best, another Korea; at worst, a nuclear
holocaust, and our country thenceforth
would make Nazi Germany appear sweet
smelling by comparison.
PLABETImD, N.J.,
June 24, 1964.
Hon. WAYNE MORSE,
Senate Office Building,
Washington, D.C.
DEAR SENATOR MORSE: I was horrified last
night When I heard the news that Gen. Max-
well Taylor is to replace Ambassador Lodge,
confirming the rumors that we are going to
be more belligerent in southeast Asia.
Thank goodness, when you were inter-
viewed, you expressed alarm at this prospect.
Before this I've felt I should write to let you
know that I highly approved of your recom-
mendation that we seek to keep the peace
in that sensitive area by negotiation, not by
military might, and find a-solution under the
United Nations Charter procedures.
More power to you and Senator FULBRIGHT
and the others who are calling for a review -
of our foreign policy. We can't travel two
directions at once. If we want peace we
must use peaceful means.
Hopefully yours,
KATHERINE VANDERBEEK.
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.,
June 23, 1964.
Hon. WAYNE MORSE,
Senate Office Building,
-Washington, D.C.
DEAR SIR: I agree with you thoroughly on
the President's choice of General Taylor as
the new Ambassador to South Vietnam, and
wish you well in your efforts to block con-
firmation of the appointment.
JUNE 19, 1964.
DEAR SENATOR MORSE: I wish to Commend
you on your opinion regarding our present
policy in Vietnam. I am in accord with those
who feel that any help we give should be
economic and that our military forces should
be withdrawn. I don't feel that either we
or our opponents could win another was.
PHILADELPHIA, PA., .
June 22, 1964.
DEAR SENATOR MORSE: You are so right.
We should have never gotten Into this dirty
war in Laos and Vietnam. There must be
some honorable way to stop the fighting and
start negotiating and pull back from the
brink.
BAYSIDE, N.Y.,
June 21,1964.
DEAR SENATOR MORSE: I admire your op-
position to sending our troops to Vietnam.
I am afraid that the troops will be sent
in force nevertheless. And I am completely
frustrated not to be able to do anything
about it except to write the President.
Perhaps I go beyond your position. Not
only would unilateral fighting in Vietnam
(South or North) be a criminal act because
of the illegality, but the more so since the
fighting would be for the purpose of crush-
ing what appears to be a genuinely popular
revolutionary movement, if I can believe the
-long series of dispatches by David Halber-
stam, in the New York Times.
With a compliant populace and a Republi-
can opposition that would applaud such an
intervention and with only a handful of per-
sons of conscience like yourself, what is
to stop the President?
It seems that a lot of Americans are going
to be dying for the incredible purpose of
bringing misery and death to an already
wretched people and for the purpose of
thwarting that people's will.
Yours very truly,
LAWRENCE D. HOCHMAN.
Senator WAYNE MORSE.
DEAR SIR: I am not from your State, but
feel impelled to write you, after reading your
statement in Time magazine and hearing
you on TV on our involvement in - Asia. I,
too, am much concerned and want to voice
my protest, although it will be like the
"voice crying in the wilderness." How in
heaven's name can we cure the many ills
of the world-alone at- that-in countries
so divided among themselves, so indifferent
and In such a chaotic state. Many of those
countries have expressed dislike for us and
want us to leave. To risk a world war for
those countries is unthinkable to me, and I
resent with every ounce of me, every soldier
lost over there. Nothing I've read has made
any sense as to why we are there, except
formaterial gain, and even if those countries
are lost to the Communists, we can still
live. We seem to be getting along, even
though we have Russia, Cuba, and other
countries in, that category.
My husband fought to save Europe in the
First World War-my son-in-law in the See-
and-but I'm blest it I want my grandson
trying to save Asia. Let us save ourselves
first, and here in this hemisphere. "What
profit a man to gain the world if he loses
his soul."
Sincerely,
senator VIAYNE MORSE,
Senate Office Building,
Washington, D.C.
DEAR ant: On the radio on Saturday, I
heard a commentator state, "We will risk a
war with China in order to preserve the
peace." How casual can one get about an-
nihilation?
On a David Brinkley 1-hour showing of an
average town, three women and a man were
asked how they felt about dropping an atomic
bomb and the general consensus was, "Sure
drop it and let's get it over with." Don't
these people know anything? Bless you for
your wonderful support of peaceful alterna-
tives in southeast Asia.
Sincerely,
NEW YORK, N.Y.,
June 23, 1964.
Senator WAYNE MORSE,
Senate Office Building,
Washington D.C.:
Bravo for your statement on southeast
Asia. War with China is unthinkable.
Mr. and Mrs. A. TUBARSKY.
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF.,
June 24, 1964.
Senator MORSE,
U.S. Senate,
Washington, D.C.:
Congratulations strong stand against ex-
tending war southeast Asia. Many support-
ers here. Continue fight for peace.
DONALD PATON.
PARAMOUNT, CALIF.,
June 24, 1964.
Senator WAYNE MORSE,
Senate Office Building,
Washington, D.C.
DEAR SENATOR MORSE: People of this coun-
try should not be forced to chose between a
Johnson war and a Goldwater war or what
have you. A war with Red China which
seems to be in the making as you yourself
have been quoted to have said could easily
accelerate into a East-West thermonuclear
war.
B. H. LIVINGSTON.
SAN JOSE, CALIF.,
June 24, 1964.
Senator WAYNE MORSE,
Senate office Building,
Washington, D.C.:
Thank heaven for your
long may it be raised.
BEVERLY HILLS, CALIF.,
June 24, 1964.
Senator WAYNE MORSE,
Senate Offlee Building,
Washington, D.C.:
We do not support war in southeast Asia.
Urge use? of United Nations.
Dr. and Mrs. TED J. GOLDSTEIN.
PASADENA, CALIF.,
June 23, 1964.
Senator WAYNE MORSE,
U.S. Senate,
Washington, D.C.:
' Thank you for your courage in opposing
the war plans in South Vietnam.
Dr. and Mrs. WILLIAM A. MVSGRAVE.
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Senator WAYNE MORSE,
Washington, D.C.:
Sending this to you because I fear screen-
ing from President Johnson's notice. Am in
full accord with your views on South Viet-
nam. The administration is showing very
blind expediency in reaction to the loud
no-nothings who are trying to change U.S.A.
policy and image.
Mrs. ETHEL D, KING.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR,
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles, Calif.
DEAR SIR: Those who think we should
continue the war in Vietnam should have
read the story in the Los Angeles Times
April 16, 1964-"Maimed, Scarred Child Vic-
tims of Vietnam War Horrify Doctor."
Dr. Ellmore, well known in southern Cali-
fornia, tells us that there are only 800
trained doctors in South Vietnam; 600 of
these are in the army, leaving 200 doctors to
serve 15 million people. (By contrast, a pro-
posed community, Laguna Hills, near Los
Angeles, will have 500 doctors for the resi-
dents of 18,000 homes.)
Dr. Ellmore says there is not one plastic
surgeon in the country though many are
needed. We provide white phosphorus,
trinitrotulene, and other kinds of bombs.
If a civilian loses part of his face in a
grenade explosion, or has his skin burned
off he stays that way.
Dr. Ellmore did, not say, but it is kown
that our military activities in Vietnam cost
us $2 million a day and that this and 17,000
American troops are not enough, for our
position has become steadily worse. We
have lost the people in that miserable coun-
try. Love and victory cannot be won by
herding millions of people into barbed wire
"strategic hamlets" and bulldozing their
villages and spraying their animals and
crops with insecticides. Our Army advisers
complain that the Vietnamese army does
not fight with spirit and sometimes refuses
to fight at, all. I shouldn't wonder.
The policy of Madame Nhu and her hus-
band led us this far. Will the policy of
Maj. Gen. Nguyen Khanh lead us to world
war III? I believe that this thing we are
doing in Vietnam is immoral and indecent.
I agree with U.S. Senators WAYNE MORSE, ER-
NEST GRUENING, and MIKE MANSFIELD that
we should stop it.
WORDEN C. MCDONALD.
EL MONTE, CALIF.
CHICAGO, ILL.,
June 23, 1964.
Hon, WAYNE MORSE,
Senator, Oregon,
Washington, D.C.
DEAR HONORABLE SIR: For several years I
haven't thought too good of you, not since
you became a Democrat and started a boiler
factory noise against the'Republicans who
honored you previously.
But, of late I note you are going straight
to the dolly of our being in a war in Vietnam,
and letting the President know it. The folly
of our being in about every quarrel in the
world, armies here and there accomplishing
but little or nothing of good, are thoughts
the common citizen should resolve. Our
President and those about him will do noth-
ing other than get more deeply involved.
Also the overdoing foreign aid goes on apace.
Yes, I'm still a Republican and hope to
vote for BARRY come November. I'm not a
"Nervous Nellie" in politics.
Respectfully,
-JOHN W. REEVES.
DETROIT, .MICH.,
June 24, 1964.
Senator WAYNE MORSE,
Washington, D.C.:
Unequivocally support your position on
southeast Asia. Keep the pressure on.
E. J. GEHRINGER.
[From the Plain Dealer, June 18, 1964]
NEEDED: AN APPROACH To END THE WAR IN
VIETNAM-AN OPEN LETTER TO THE U.S.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE
The United States is a foreign party to a
civil war in Vietnam. Fifteen thousand U.S.
uniformed personnel have been committed
to the battle. Casualties include American
soldiers.
Acceleration of the American war effort in
South Vietnam invites increased aid by
China to the Communist Vietnamese. Step-
ping up the war effort risks the use by either
side of nuclear arms. Nuclear war offers no
victory.
What is the alternative?
Negotiation is urged by. Senator Wayne
Morse, Senator Ernest Gruening, Columnist
Walter Lippmann, and others. Recognizing
it takes both sides to make peace, we urge
our Government to initiate a conference of
nations to guarantee a neutral Vietnam.
We support U.S. efforts to insure enforce-
ment of agreements. The United Nations
can assist direct negotiation. Inspection
teams must be free to operate wherever
needed. They can be backed by frontier
patrols.
The best guarantee of enforcement is the
mutual advantage of the agreement. The
goal is a Vietnam whose independence is
guaranteed and respected.
Robert R. Archer, Professor; Raymond S.
Beard, Business Counselor; Marguerite
S. Bellamy, Housewife; Keith C. Bill-
man, Social Worker; Evelyn A. Black-
burn, Insurance Agent; Isabel N. Bliss,
Homemaker; William M. Bliss, Engi-
neer; Edith O. Brashares, College In-
structor; Edwin 4. Brown, Minister;
Rilma Buckman, Sociologist; Bronson
P. Clark, Businessman; Sheldon D.
Clark, Lawyer; Lila Cornell, Home-
maker; Marie F. Cotton, Homemaker;
Wendell P. Cotton, Salesman; Natalie
C. C3'outer, Housewife; Elfrieda S.
Daiber; Secretary; Alan J. Davis, Min-
ister; Hortense M. Davis, Teacher; Jack
0. Day, Lawyer; Steven Deutsch, Uni-
versity Faculty; Mort Epstein, De-
signer; Gail R. Gann, Homemaker;
Donald S. Gann, Surgeon; Joel M.
Garver, Lawyer; Paul Gitlin, Social
Worker; Henry Gluck, Psychologist;
William F. Hellmuth, Jr., Professor;
Arnold A. Herzog, Lawyer; Fred Husa,
Office Worker; Sidney D. Josephs, Busi-
nessman; Mrs. Harry Kirtz, Home-
maker; Waldo H. Kliever, Consultant;
Dennis G. Kuby, Minister; Jerome
Landfield, College Professor.
Ada N. Leffingwell, Homemaker; George
Levinger, Educator; John P. Marhevka,
Male Hair, Stylist; Mrs. Edward A.
Marshall, Homemaker; Charles R.
Miller, Lawyer; Paul I. Miller, Profes-
sor; Hans F. Mueller, Retired; Laura
Mueller, Homemaker; Sarah B. Nenner,
Housewife; James M. Newman, Ad-
vertising; Paul Olynyk, Professor;
Clyde Onyett, Public Relations; Wil-
liam W. Outland, Order Analyst;
Samuel Prellwitz, Industrial Research;
Harold J. Quigley, Minister; Willard C.
Richan, Educator; Eldon P. Rpe, Mer-
chant; Marian Rosenberg, Social
Worker; Ralph Rudd, Lawyer; Audrey
Sabadosh, Librarian; Nicholas Saba-
dosh, Teacher; Wilmer L. Sa .
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Painter; Vera A. Schwartz, Legal Secre-
tary; A. L. Sherwin, Lawyer; Frank
Spigel, Lawyer; Benjamin Spock,
Physician; Sam Sponseller, Retired;
Vera Smisek, Teacher; Oscar H. Steiner,
Businessman; Helen Stewart, High
School Counselor; Edward A. Taubert,
Photographer; Warren E. Thompson,
Educator; Hugh Tyson, Graduate Stu-
dent; Harry O. Way, Bacteriologist.
NEW YORK CITY,
June 20, 1964.
DEAR SENATOR MORSE: I know you are al-
most alone in your efforts to bring a sense
of sanity to the growing bad situation in
Vietnam and to the extreme views being
spread by the Secretary of Defense and his
aids that it is necessary to consider what
further steps we should take so that we may
not "lose the nonactive" war we are con-
ducting in Vietnam, which you have desig-
nated as "McNamara's war."
You may have noticed Mr. Max Frankel's
article on the front page of the New York
Times this morning which is quite disturb-
ing. It would appear that even threats of
war are so close to the actual start of -war
that I am at a loss to see where the "assent
of Congress is being given any thought by
the administration and its supporters under
the Constitution. The loss of so many
Americans in our "assistance program"-
termed nonmilitary by some-is, as you have
said, unconstitutional.
The support that you deserve in your ef-
forts to bring an end to this situation is
too little.
Sincerely yours,
PALO ALTO, CALIF.
SENATOR MORSE: Lately I have been read-
ing very short remarks in the local press
referring to your opposition to the adminis-
tration's southeast Asian policy. I too
strongly oppose our country's position which
is a stupid continuation of the same mis-
takes which cost us such terrible defeats in
China, Cuba, and in countless other areas.
The United States has a revolutionary his-
tory and yet we have become the opponent
to modern revolution. It is time for our
country to recognize that the revolutionary
aspirations of the world's underdeveloped
peoples are not necessarily Communist in-
spired or controlled-these movements do
become Communist controlled after all other
democratic and socialistic elements are de-
stroyed by the reactionary governments
which we continue to aid and support.
There seems to be a virtual "blackout" on
your statements-the press has not seen fit
to carry any details about your speeches.
Would you kindly send to me any pertinent
information.
Keep up the good work.
ALAN L. OLMSTEAD.
NEW YORK, N.Y.,
June 21, 1964.
Senator WAYNE MORSE,
Senate Office Building,
Washington, D.C.
HONORABLE SENATOR MORSE: I reread your
statement on the war in South Vietnam, and
I would like to express my admiration
and support for your stand. Unfortunately
many people are not familiar with all the
facts, and therefore I especially appreciated
your informative speech.
I am deeply concerned about the expan-
sion of this disastrous war and the loss of
so many lives. I hope you will continue
your efforts to bring the question of aggres-
sion to the United Nations and so reach a
peaceful solution, I also wonder what we,
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ther spread of this war? speech.
Respectfully yours, Sincerely yours,
HERTA MAYER.
OAKLAND, CALIF., June. 21, 1964.
Senator WAYNE MORSE,
Senate Office Building,
Washington, D.C.
DEAR SENATOR: Enclosed is news item in
this morning's San Francisco Chronicle
which I am sure will interest you, Yester-
day's Oakland Tribune owned by William
Knowland also carried the same article.
Thank God that we have an outstanding
champion in the U.S. Senator' who has the
courage to speak out against these warmon-
gers, and I wish you would take this article
to-the-floor of the Senate and try to silence
these eanille-who like the war dogs, trained
to war, know nothing except war and are
not satisfied until they give the world its last
blood bath.
Respectfully,
BROOKLYN, N.Y.,
June 20, 1964.
DEAR SENATOR MORSE: The increasing bel-
ligerency of the United States in Laos and
Vietnam is terrifying- Can you tell me what
on earth is so important down there? Is
there some American millionaire who owns
real estate there? Is there some great nat-
ural resource secretly promised to an Ameri-
can corporation? Is there any conceivable
reason why the American people should take
a 50-50 chance on their present survival to
prevent the development of a million-to-one
chance against their future survival? Is this
country going crazy or has it always been
thstt way?
For God's sake, you must do more to pre-
vent this. Not that you haven't done plenty,
but who else is there?
Sincerely,
P.S.-Would you try to ask the President
how he can reconcile his noble sentiments for
"Peace and an end to the threat of nuclear
destruction" (No. 1, right column) with Ad-
miral Felt's declaration that the United
States "is willing to risk an all-out war to
check Communist aggression" etc.?
I wish these warmongering admirals and
generals would speak for themselves only
and leave we the people alone.
What's wrong with taking up these mat-
ters in the United Nations-which was or-
ganized for just such purpose?
Let's stop the military before they stop life
on earth.
Senator WAYNE MORSE,
Senate Office Building,
Washington, D.C.
DEAR SENATOR MORSE: We applaud your
speeches on foreign policy. We also support
your every effort, to find a peaceful solution
to that unjust war in Vietnam; through
negotiations, let us terminate our involve-
ment there.
To save your energy, time and money, we
do not expect you to reply.
Yours very sincerely,
MARIA KOVAC.
WEST ACTON, MASS.,
June 23, 1964.
Senator WAYNE MORSE,
Senate office Building,
Washington, - D.C.
MY DEAR SENATOR MORSE: Some weeks ago,
your office sent me, at my request, a copy of
your speech in the Senate which dealt with.
the history of the southeast Asia conflict. I
have now had an opportunity to read this
material in full, and I must say that I am
very grateful indeed to you for compiling
this most remarkable document. It is cer-
tainly unfortunate that your speech went
so little noticed in the press.
About the mistakes of the past of course
'there can be no complete rectification. Sec-?
retary Dulles policy of "brinksmanship"
made many shudder at the time. But just
now, the administration is following this very
policy to the hilt; indeed it was clearly
delineated as such in the recent article by
W. W. Rostow in the New York Times maga-
zine (a singularly depressing document, in
my opinion).
We of the public at large can indeed be
grateful for the very few voices in Washing-
ton, like yourself and Senator GRUENING; but
if there are similar voices within the admin-
istration, they evidently have been hushed
(even, to the dismay of all of us, Ambassador
Stevenson). And Senator FunsateHT's speech
of not very long ago on foreign policy was as
weak on southeast Asia as it was good on
Cuba.
ROGER W. BOWEN.
GLENDALE, CALIF.,
June 16, 1964.
Senator WAYNE MORSE,
U.S. Senate, -
Washington, D.C.
MY DEAR SENATOR: I was glad to see in
today's papers where you had a confronta-
tion with Dean Rusk and Senator FTLBRIGHT
on the Vietnam situation.
McNamara and FvLBRIGHT have been in the
area several times, and know that the Chi-
nese are ready to pour thousandsof troops
in the country, the same as they did in
Korea, and yet we continue to give aid in
increasing amounts.
You have been urging that we get out and
leave the country to the Chinese. We are too
far away for our leaders to know what they
are doing.
Best wishes in your efforts.
OAKLAND, CALIF.,
June 16, 1964.
FRED D. GIBBS.
Senator WAYNE MORSE,
Senate Office Building,
Washington, D.C.
DEAR SENATOR MORSE: I wish to whole-
heartedly endorse your position on our con-
tinued military involvement In South Viet-
nam and hope you will continue your efforts
for a more rational policy in that critical
area.
Sincerely,
Senator WAYNE MORSE,
Senate Office Building,
Washington, D.C.
HONORABLE SIR: I wish to commend and
encourage you for your brave and coura-
geous stand on the southeast Asia situation.
Few have had the integrity to take this
much-needed stand. We have been read-
ing your speeches and other sources of in-
formation on Vietnam and feel with you
that the United States is waging a highly
unpopular war which may escalate into a
nuclear war.
If that course is hopefully averted, you
will have played a significant part.
ABERDEEN, WASH.,
June 16, 1964.
Senator WAYNE MORSE,
Washington, D.C.:
I am in complete accord with your views
on southeast Asia. Under no circumstances
must we become involved in a war thats none
of our business. Under the United Nations
Charter no outside country has a right to
interfere in a civil war. We would not per-
mit Russia or China in Mexico or Canada
without becoming terribly alarmed and take
immediate drastic action. Our present
action could provoke similar reaction from
them with a serious danger of global war
resulting.
Yours truly,
P.S.-Keep up the good fight, we need more
men of your caliber.
ST. PAUL, MINN.
June 18, 1964.
To the EDITOR, THE MAIL BAG,
The St. Paul Pioneer Press-Dispatch,
St. Paul, Minn.:
I agree with Senator MORSE, of Oregon,
that the United States should withdraw its
military forces from South Vietnam, and
discontinue its aggressive acts in that area.
Young American men are being killed there;
it is a war without a declaration by Congress
as provided by our Constitution. Most of the
major countries signed the 1954 Geneva
Treaty which provided for free elections. Al-
most immediately, the Eisenhower adminis-
tration supported hated Diem family dic-
totarship who would not allow free elec-
tions. After the Diem dictatorship was
overthrown, a military dictatorship took its
place which the United States is still sup-
porting.
Many freedom loving people in Europe and
South America cannot understand why our
so-called democracy can support foreign dic-
tatorships all over the world. The answer
can be found by examining the interests of
big business that controls the Government in
Washington. Their greedy plan has but one
purpose, foreign markets and profits. If
they can control the sea routes and large
land areas, they can grab and hold most of
the world markets. If a few American Boys
get killed and the taxpayer gets "soaked" In
carrying out his plan, does not bother the
big capitalist.
J. OSBORNE.
BASKING RIDGE, -N.J.,
June 18, 1964.
Hon. WAYNE MORSE.
DEAR SENATOR MORSE: The brevity of this
communication does not represent the con-
cern I have about our policy in Vietnam.
I am in full agreement with the sugges-
tions made by you and Senator GRUENING
as this situation threatens world peace. As
a member of the U.N., it should be placed
before that organization. It is a wise and
mature man or government that can change
its mind when it finds it is wrong.
Sincerely,
PRESQUE ISLE,
June 18, 1964.
Senator WAYNE MORSE, -
Senate Office Building,
Washington, D.C.
DEAR SENATOR: I understand there is seri-
ous discussion of extending the Vietnam war
to North Vietnam, which would be a terrible
thing to do.
You have consistently fought against un-
wise and unnecessary war through all the
years, and I appeal to you to do your utmost
to help prevent this unnecessary extension
of the terrible war in Vietnam. More power
to you.
Yours sincerely,
MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.,
June 17,1964.
DEAR SIR: It was a breath of fresh air to
hear your views of southeast Asia. It was
a courageous and intelligent statement in
my opinion. With the air so full of hate and
ignorance, your views stand out as forth-
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right and wise. 'You may take some abuse
for your 'statements now but the future
will show your wisdom, I am sure.
Hon. WAYNE MORSE,
U.S. Senate,
Washington, D.C.
June 19, 1964.
MY DEAR SENATOR: Just a note to tell you
I have up until recently been a registered
independent Republican politically, but I
want to say to you I stand 100 percent with
you in your fight to cut out this foreign
aid gimmick which the executive branch of
the Government is always wanting.
Its time we quit allowing the President
to engage in wars without the constitutional
provision which gives Congress this author-
ity alone. Congress has abdicated in many
respects its duties and responsibilites to the
people. Its time we quit making our boys
sitting ducks for enemy snipers. Its time
we cut oS all aid to our enemies abroad
whose only interest is what they can get
out of us. Its time we made other nations
stand on their own lazy bottoms. How much
longer our people are going to pour their
money into Washington, no one knows. Most
of us hope a revolt if it comes will be
a peaceful one but we may need a police
state in many ways if these giveway policies
are continued.
Keep up the fight to stamp out this
damnable racket before we become bank-
rupt ourselves. The American people need
some consideration, which is and has been
woefully lacking in the past.
Sincerely yours,
DEMOCRATS OF NEW YORK,
June 19, 1964.
Hon. WAYNE MORSE,
DEAR Sig: The people of our country are
against sending groundtroops (our boys)
to Asia. We agree with you to get our boys
out of Asia lock, stock, and barrel, where it
is none of our business. The people of our
country depend upon smart Senators like
yourself to see that we do not get into traps
such as Vietnam and Laos, etc.
Respectfully,
Senator WAYNE MORSE,
U.S. Senate,
Washington, D.C.
DEAR SENATOR MORSE: I cannot begin to
tell you how grateful I am to you for sending
me the reprints of the CONGRESSIONAL REC-
oaos containing your speeches in the Senate
on: "McNamara's War in Vietnam;" "The
Foreign Policy of the United States," and "Is
An American Protectorate in Asia Worth
War"?
I only regret that it was not printed in the
entire U.S. press throughout the country be-
cause many millions were deprived of access
to the truth.
I cannot begin to tell you how much I
admire your courage as an apostle of the
truth. It is indeed a pity that the two Wash-
ington newspapers did not have the courage
to bring your message of truth at least to the
people of Washington. It is a pity too that
there is not even one among the wealthy
magnates of the United States who could see
the need of using some of their tax-free
money, as does Hunt of the Life Line, to
counteract his pollution of the air with
poisonous propaganda, by bringing to the
people, at least from time to time, excerpts
from the CONGRESSIONAL RECORDS Of the
speeches of Senator WAYNE MORSE On the
No. 129-11
vital issues of world peace and the needless
sacrifice of American youth in South Viet-
nam.
If only the American people had access to
your messages of the truth beyond the
boundaries of the CONGRESSIONAL RECORDS.
If only there was an organization to under-
take mailing millions of reprints of your
messages in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORDS, over
the heads of the newspapers' "cordon sani-
taire" who do not find it "fit to print" the
truth.
The Life Line will die a slow death in years
to come but your message, dear Senator
MORSE, will continue to embrace more and
more people and will remain a living monu-
ment through the future historians for gen-
erations.
May God give you many, many years of
good health to carry on your apostolic work
in the U.S. Senate. May all your nights of
sleep be, as you said in your speech: "I sleep
much more comfortably knowing that I have
raised my voice again in a plea for taking the
problem to the United Nations."
However, even if your speeches should only
reach a small number of people who apply
for it to your office, they all must become
inspired by you, as I am, to carry your
message and reach as many others as possi-
ble, either by word of mouth, by sharing the
obtained text from you, or both.
Sincerely,
SEATTLE, WASH.,
June 25, 1964.
DEAR SENATOR MORSE: My husband and I
are very glad that there is someone of your
stature who will speak up and express the
opinions of most of the people who concern
themselves over our country's action in
South Vietnam, You are so very right.
We do not seem to have a Senator in our
State who will favor international law and
order through U.N, action.
I feel a bit safer knowing that there is one
'Senator who is unafraid of the military and
willing to go along with the feelings of the
majority of Democrats.
Sincerely,
SKOKIE, ILL.
Senator WAYNE MORSE.
DEAR SIR: Your brutally frank statement
Tuesday regarding the United States and
world peace may meet with much public dis-
approval, but it was a needed jolt.
You are not my Senator, but I sincerely
wish you were.. If I ever move to Oregon,
you will be the reason.
Sincerely yours,
Hon. WAYNE MORSE,
U.S. Senate,
Washington, D.C.
My DEAR SENATOR MORSE: Again (yester-
day) you spoke out warningly against our
growing military involvement in Vietnam.
I can only commend you for your vision and
try to speak the same truths in my own cir-
cle of acquaintances. May power develop
from the repeated expressions of these truths.
And may enough time remain.
Sincerely yours,
Hon. WAYNE MORSE,
Senate Office Building,
Washington, D.C.
EVANSTON, ILL.,
June 25, 1964.
DEAR SENATOR MORSE: I agree with you
wholeheartedly on the South Vietnam situa-
tion and am writing a letter to the President
to say the same. It is ridiculous to be in
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this thing on our own and heading toward
war when the U.N. is the proper agency to
handle these things and keep peace. It looks
as though the administration is letting the
Goldwater-type Republicans bug it into
this type of action-and the trigger-happy
Armed Forces.
Please exert all your influence to put this
where it belongs.
Sincerely,
Senator MORSE,
Washington, D.C.:
WESLEYVILLE, PA.,
June 25, 1964.
I heard you on "This Is Today," Hugh
Down's program. You were so right about
South Vietnam. John Foster Dulles was a
fake as Secretary of State. You mentioned
England, Australia, New Zealand, France,
and other countries who got out. Why not
the United States? I for one want you as
Senator to press your voice in this matter,
because of Red China and Russia. They will
intervene if the going gets tough. You
mentioned Australia doubling their force
from 30 to 60 men, what about the United
Nations handling this delicate situation?
You mentioned France losing 240,000 men
in southeast Asia. They got out. Why?
Because you said the United States wants
to police Asia. It can't be done. So you
are so right about our troops in that troubled
area. Yes, they could knock the Vietcong
out of business but then you got Red China
to deal with. Please advise President John-
son of the peril. You also said they put
Max Taylor in as Ambassador and he will
stir things up because of his war record.
Thank you Senator MORSE for your splen-
did speech. I knew you would be for getting
out of Vietnam.
Yours respectfully,
M. R. SULLIVAN,
A Veteran.
MOUNT JOY, PA.,
June 25, 1964.
Hon. WAYNE MORSE,
Senate Office Building,
Washington, D.C.
DEAR SENATOR MORSE: The views you ex-
pressed today on the NBC "Today" program
were like a breath of fresh air on a muggy
day. We are very concerned over the increas-
ing power of the Pentagon in domestic and
foreign policy. We heartedly endorse your
sane ideas in this matter.
Respectfully,
Rev. and Mrs. WM. W. LONGENECKER.
HARTSDALE, N.Y.,
June 25, 1964.
Senator WAYNE MORSE,
U.S. Senate,
Washington, D.C.
DEAR SENATOR MORSE: Heard you on TV
program "Today" and just want you to know
that I am (and I am sure millions of other
U.S. citizens) with you in your attitude
toward the southeast Asian situation and
our involvement in it. I greatly admire you
for your courageous stand. More power to
you.
SHARON, MASS.,
June 25, 1964.
DEAR SENATOR MORSE: I heard you this
morning on the today show, and all I can
say is "Thank God" for you. All the women
I talk to are very frightened at the escalat-
ing war threat, and I know hundreds of
thousands of mothers are praying that the
insane trends will be reversed.
Do you think that the women of the coun-
try could appeal to the United Nations
somehow?
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I pray that you will get the response to
your appeal, in the millions.
We mothers dread to think that we raise
our sons, send them to school to train them
to be useful members of society only to have
them the in some jungle thousandsof miles
away, for what we don't know.
Please Senator MORSE continue to speak
out. You seem to be our only hope,
thing about opportunities for body develop-
ment and just plain fun.
Automation will soon rob men and youth
of employment. Its coming so fast the re-
adjustment period cannot be handled with-
out ail-out effort now to channel energies
toward physical and emotional outlets of
another kind.
Keep up the good work. You are-a brave
man.
Mrs. MYRTLE TJERANDSEN.
BRIGHTON, MASS.,
June 24, 1964.
DEAR SENATOR MORSE: Bravo for your posi-
tion in attacking the appointment of General
Taylor in South Vietnam. This furthers the
militarist image of the United States. Please
continue your stands on other controversial
issues also. You have a brave spirit.
Sincerely,
ROBERT S. TARPEY.
LONG BEACH, CALIF.,
June 25, 1964.
Hon. Senator MORSE.
DEAR SIR: Please accept my deepest grati-
tude andrespect for your courageous state-
ment against the war in South Vietnam and
that the problem be handed over to the U.N.
where it belongs. This country has never
been in greater need of men like you than
at the present time.
I feel like moving to Oregon so I could
vote for you in the next election.
K. A. ELIASSEN.
GLENDALE, CALIF.,
June 25, 1964.
Senator WAYNE MORSE,
Senate Office Building,
Washington, D.C.
DEAR SENATOR MORSE: I want to thank you
for speaking out strongly against our Gov-
ernment's reckless and rash policy in Viet-
nam, Laos, and the other Par Eastern coun-
tries. I feel so deeply that it is aggressive,
and. morally wrong for our country to take
such a step. It is very frustrating to be one
of the masses in days such as these, with no
alternative but to stand idly by and watch
our Government make such a tragic ill-
advised decision. Aside from writing letters
which - I am sure in many cases never get
read, what can we do? Thank you again
for always speaking out clearly and with-
out party bias. If we had more men with
your honesty and wisdom, we would perhaps
not be standing at the brink of world war III.
Very truly yours,
Mrs. MARILYN ELLIS.
BRONXVILLE, N.Y.
DEAR SENATOR MORSE: Whenever I hear you
speak t feel like the sun has suddenly come
out from behind a dark, thick cloud.
I hope you will read my letter.
You are so right about Asia. I have won-
dered about the military and our foreign
policy too.
Since our son will soon be drafted, I have
watched with horror-U.S. people being
killed in Asia. Whenever I speak about how
angry I shall be if he is sent to Asia, every-
one speaks up with the same feelings. Peo??
pie are frustrated about our policy but afraid
to say anything. There is a slow rising anger
developing.
If we must use the Army for a WPA,
let's use it at home. They can build swim-
ming pools, recreation centers for the middle.
class, better housing for the aged, bicycle
paths, etc.
Armies are used for peace needs in other
countries, let's do it here. The boys can
learn Army discipline and defense methods
but they can improve many needs too.
Boredom Is a great developer of misdeeds.
We are going to have great chaos and de-
linquency very soon if we do not do some-
EAST ORANGE, N.J.,
June 25, 1964.
Senator WAYNE MORSE,
U.S. Senate,
Washington, D.C.
MY DEAR SENATOR MORSE: Thank you for
your clear remarks on the "Today" program
concerning Vietnam.
We should bring all our troops home from
that postage-stamp-sized country immedi-
ately. Anyone who wants war with China
is an idiot.
We should declare a month of mourning
for our young men who have died in that
country and should hang all flags at half
mast during that period. These men have
died for nothing.
As you say, our intervention in Vietnam is
against our Constitution and the United
Nations.
There is just one point on which I disagree
with you. If the Republicans win In No-
vember, the Intervention in Vietnam-if it
is not by then a war-will not get worse.
Remember, World War I, World War It,
and the Korean war were all the fault of a
Democratic administration.
It was a Democratic President who ordered
the nuclear bombs to be dropped on Hiro-
shima and Nagasaki, the only atom bombs,
up to this point, that have ever been dropped
on people.
I am a Republican-as you used to be-
and I hope that BARRY GoLDwATER gets the
nomination. He is the only one who has a
chance to beat Johnson.
Very truly yours,
Mrs. M. D. CLAUDER.
BROOKLYN, N.Y.,
June 25, 1964.
Senator WAYNE MORSE.
HONORABLE SIR: We saw you this morning
on the "Today" show and were very much
impressed by your views on our foreign pol-
icy. Yours is the only right and honest at-
titude. We want peace and we won't get it
unless more of our Congressmen back up
your position.
How can the people help?
Respectfully yours,
THELMA and DAVID KAGAN.
Los ANGELES, CALIF.,
June 25, 1964.
DEAR SENATOR MORSE: My husband and I
have just watched the "Today" show and
listened with respect to your remarks. We
support your position and .now you are cor-
rect when you say that the majority of
Americans object to the prospect of a war in
Vietnam where we do not belong. May you
continue to use your lonely voice to acquaint
more people with the truth of thesituation
and it is our fervent hope that millions rally
to your side. Again, thank you for speaking
for us. I would vote for you for President,
believe me.
Cordially,
HATHOME, MASS.,
June 25, 1964.
Senator WAYNE MORSE, of Oregon:
Today on television you put your finger on
the whole trouble in Vietnam as far as the
United States is concerned-that is-that we
are fighting without having declared war
and therefore each soldier Is being forced to
fight a war on his own initiative.
By all means I say that the U.S. President
should take the issue to the United Nations,
If this policy continues we could have more
of a dictatorship in this country than we
think.
Sincerely,
JACK'S HEALTH CENTER,
West-Palm Beach, Fla., June 25, 1964.
Hon. WAYNE MORSE,
Senate Ojlce Building,
Washington, D.C.
DEAR MR. MORSE: We want you to know
that we are very happy to have heard you so
earnestly and effectively express the opinions
relative to South Vietnam this morning on
the 'Today" program.
We have written to President Johnson to
this effect and hope and pray that more
Americans are doing the same.
Much can be said but we shall stop here,
In deep gratitude to you.
Sincerely,
JACK SOLOMON.
ROSE SOLOMON.
MONTICELLO, N.Y.,
June 25,1964.
Senator WAYNE MORSE,
U.S. Senate,
Washington, D.C.
DEAR SENATOR MORSE: I saw you on TV
("Today" program) this morning and liked
what you said and how you said it. I almost
wish you may be a candidate for the
Presidency.
Sincerely,
LOS ANGELES, CALIF.,
June 25, 1964.
Hon. Senator WAYNE MORSE,
U.S. Senate,
Washington, D.C.
DEAR SIR: Your courageous stand on our
war in southeast Asia arouses our admira-
tion. If our country continues to do
what it is doing, we fear that it will even-
tually destroy itself and the world, besides
the moral issue involved.
Keep up the good work, and we will in-
form as many people as we can of your posi-
tion on this question.
Respectfully,
JACK and SYLVIA R. PaIMACK.
GLENDORA, CALIF.,
June 24, 1964.
DEAR MR. MORSE: I applaud the forthright
stand you are taking and have taken against
our dangerous policy in southeast Asia.
I hope one hundred million Americans
feel as strongly as you put it that we are
launched on a Hitlersque venture.
Democracy, self-determination, human
considerations are all going by the board.
We are hiding murder and aggression under
the false label of freedom and covering
all with so-called aid.
I tremble for my country and for the
safety of all mankind when the backlash of
retribution sweeps over us.
Sincerely yours,
STELLA FALK.
CROTON-ON-HUDSON, N.Y.,
June 25, 1964,
Hon. WAYNE MORSE,
U.S. Senate,
Washington, D.C.
MY DEAR SENATOR MORSE: My wife and I
were very much impressed and - moved by
your presentation of your views on the war
in southeast Asia during your appearance on
the "Today" program this morning. We
want to take this opportunity to express our
wholehearted support of your stand against
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the problem to the United Nations. We are
writing accordin iy to President Johnson and
to our Senators, ENNETH KEATING and JACOB
DAVITS.
Sincerely yours,
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Hon. Senator, WAYNE MORSE,
Senate Office Building,
Washington, D.C.
DEAR SENATOR MORSE; I am fully in agree-
ment with your opposition to the appoint-
ment of Gen, Maxwell Taylor as Ambas-
sadorto Vietnam. Without question, the
evidence of a military buildup in southeast
Asia is clearly established by this appoint-
ment. I hope your efforts to resist this ap-
pointment will meet with some success.
I am attempting to make known your op-
position to the appointment of Taylor, as
the focal point of the expansion of the "war
effort" in Asia. I would like to kngw the
names of other U.S. Senators who may op-
pose this appointment, so that I may write
to them, and influence others to do so. If
possible, will you let me know if ,there are
other Senators who share your view on this
appointment.
I am curious, also, regarding the back-
ground of Alexis Johnson. What ambassa-
dorial or military positions has he held in
the past?
Please let me know if you have suggestions
about what ,else can'be done by private cit-
izens in resisting the haste toward expansion
of the war in southeast Asia.
Very sincerely, -
VERONICA LYONS,
BROOKLYN, N.Y.,
June 25, 1964.
SENATOR WAYNE Moasz: Your courageous
forthright warning against the full scale war
brewing on the Asian mainland gives us
hope that there ire some sane voices in the
land, who. are trying to save the American
people and the world from horrible destruc-
tion
Gratefully,
Mrs. MILLICENT SAPOLSKY.
Sty
`.. ,'dos ANGELES, CALIF.,
June 25, 1964.
Senator WAYNE MORSE,
Senate Office $uilding,
Washington, D .C.
DEAR SENATOR MORSE: You seem to be just
about the only voice of sanity in the Sen.-
ate-and in fact, in our entire Government-
these days;; yet your speeches are buried in
our great metropolitan newspapers and
quoted briefly, if at all, on the air.
I have written letters to my own Senators,
to the President, to newspapers, etc., etc., on
our dangerous course in Vietnam-and the
restults seem nil,
You say it is up to the American people to
make their voicep heard. I cannot believe
our people want to start world war III, but
they seem so brainwashed that they are
completely immobilized and mute.
Do you see any way out of this hopeless
situation?
As far as foreign policy is concerned, it
seems'to me that our next presidential elec-
tion offers us no alternatives at all; both
candidates mouth "peace" but actually
promise war.
Again, I can not believe in a nation being
totally blind, and it is doubly tragic that it
should happen in a nation with the great
tradition ours has.
What can be done?
Sincerply yours,
PISYLLIS J. THOMAS.
REDLAND, CALIF., Thank you very much for your good work.
June 25, 1964. Sincerely,
Senator WAYNE MORSE, - Mr. and Mrs. CLYDE CLANTON.
Washington, D.C. (Democrats).
HONORED Sin:' You voiced my growing con- P.S.-We are calling our friends, reading
viction that we in America are' bearing the your statements and asking them to write.
burden alone.
Further you have emyhasized the technical Los ANGELES, CALIF.,
legal aspect of our position: Violating the June 25, 1964.
Constitution of the United States; also vio- Senator WAYNE MORSE,
lating the letter and spirit of the articles of Senate Office Building,
the United Nations. Washington, D.C.
I have not those documents at hand. HONORABLE SENATOR: We, a group of peo-
Kindly forward to my address checking the ple assembled at a City Terrace Open Forum
ones you referred to in this morning's TV on Wednesday, June 24, 1964, voted to con-
interview, gratulate you on your gallant stand against
We of our household admire your con- the U.S. Involvement in southeast Asia.
fidence and courage in voicing your conic- Too many facts prove that the present
tions. We are very much impressed with the U.S. policy is fanning the fires of unrest and
timeliness of your speech. conflict in that unhappy territory and that
Very sincerely yours, this policy is threatening the peace of the
JOSEPH R. WARNICK. world.
It is up to you and people like you to
Los ANGELES, CALIF. save the reputation and dignity of our Na-
Senator WAYNE MORSE, tion, which is fast becoming the most feared
Senate Office Building, and hated land.
Washington, D.C. The grateful people of this country will
HONORABLE SIR: I pray that your voice remember your courageous flight to preserve
which now seems to be so alone, will be able peace in the world.
to prevail upon our President and the Penta- Sincerely yours,
gon to stop their thirst for war. S. FEINBERG,
France nearly bled to death trying to force Chairman, City Terrace Open Forum.
her will on North Vietnam and was forced -
to give up. Are we going to be next? War M & M FEDERAL SAVINGS
has never accomplished anything in the past & LOAN ASSOCIATION,
and I don't think war will settle anything in Springfield, Ohio, June 25, 1964.
the future. Hon. WAYNE MORSE,
A peace-loving citizen. U.S. Senate,
Respectfully, Washington, D.C.
ESTHER NEWMAN. DEAR SIR: Congratulations on your out-
.
? I spoken interview on the NBC Today Show
Los ANGELES, CALIF., June 25, 1964.
June 25, 1964. I usually can go along with Democratic
Senator WAYNE MORSE, policy, but what you said regarding South
The Senate, Vietnam, President Johnson and our Defense
Washington, D.C. and State Departments has long needed to
DEAR SENATOR MORSE: Again cheers and be said.
congratulations for your unwavering and Keep up the good work.
courageous fight for peace, and your insist- Yours truly,
ence for a peaceful solution to the southeast LEO F. FISCHER,
Asia situation. Keep up the good work. Secretary.
An admirer. -
GERTRUDE REED.
CATSKILL, N.Y.,.:.
June 25,t 1964.
Senator MORSE.
DEAR SIR: Heard you on the "Today" show
and God bless you.
The people of the United States do not
know what is going on; all they know is
what they read in the newspapers.
Keep up the good work. We need men
like you who are not afraid to speak out.
Keep on talking-only louder; maybe
those busybodies in Washington will stop
trying to rule the whole world.
A Democrat, but will vote for GOLDWATER
as he is not afraid to call a spade a spade.
CULVER CITY, CALIF.,
June 24, 1964.
Senator WAYNE MORSE,
Washington, D.C.
DEAR MR. SENATOR: We read a small article
on page 8 of the Los Angeles Times of your
statements in the Senate on Tuesday, June
23.
You are the only man in the Senate brave
enough to tell the Americans the truth.
Today we have written our Representa-
tive JAMES ROOSEVELT, our two Senators.
Tell us what else we can do. (Our President,
also.)
We almost always agree with your state-
ments, that we hear.
What in the .world is.the matter.with the
PEEKSKILL, N.Y.,
June 25, 1964.
DEAR SIR: t support your stand on our
pulling out of South Vietnam. You can
save the world from a holocaust.
Yours truly,
ELSA WEXLER.
STATE COLLEGE, PA:,
June 25, 1964.
DEAR SENATOR MORSE: Thanks for your
stand on Vietnam. You are the only one
who seems to make-sense on the subject.
Let's try the U.N. approach. Keep up your
talk on this subject.
Sincerely,
June 25, 1964.
DEAR SIR: Please continue to urge a peace-
keeping by United Nations in Vietnam.
The airing of this evil which is going on is
one step in the right direction. Thank you
for speaking up.
Sincerely,
EAST ORANGE, N.J.,
June 25, 1964.
Heard you on "Today" show. We should
indeed get out of Vietnam. Why should
any more of our men die for that tiny no-
account country? And as you say, our
,intervention Ss Illegal.
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DEAR SIR: You are right; it looks as if
State Department have lost tieir heads,
starting little wars all over the World. Why
are we in Vietnam, anyway?
Senator WAYNE MORSE,
Senate 0" Building,
Washington, D.C.
W. L. MILLER.
DEAR MR. MORSE: I want you to know how
much I appreciate your opposition to our
war in Vietnam.
Do keep on speaking out against it until
the whole thing becomes a matter for nego-
tiation. We must not continue to make the
mistake of thinking that today a military
solution can be any kind of a solution.
Sincerely yours,
MARION C. FRENYEAR.
P.S.-I'm also writing to the President
about this.
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.,
June 24, 1964.
Senator MORSE.
DEAR SIR: Keep up the good fight. Your
stand on Laos and South Vietnam makes the
only sense coming out of Washington these
days.
Neutralize and share with all comers.
There is more than enough to keep us busy
here, getting our own house in order.
Respectfully,
W. J. JACOBSON.
Senator WAYNE MORSE,
Washington, D.C.:
it his business. 'His followers in the Penta-
gon and the munition dealers must be re-
joicing while thousands await the death
knell.
The pity of it all that we must rely on
men who do not hesitate to plunge our world
into darkness.
On my TV screen I have seen the horrors of
men, women and little children trudging
through fields and swamps, leaving behind
them their straw huts set ablaze by men who
call themselves Christians. They are often
herded like cattle behind barbed wire en-
closures without shelter or food. Others die
by the wayside of malnutrition and disease,
old and young alike. No mercy is shown be-
cause such creatures that drive them on
have no feelings for anyone but their own.
And we are told to go to church and pray.
Is there a God who permits such things
to happen?
Many thanks and best wishes and may
you always be on the right side.
Sincerely,
KANSAS CITY, Mo.
DEAR FRIEND: God bless you and keep you
safe-and all along the way-infold your
life with His infinite good; everywhere, every
day.
FEARS To MEET TAYLOR IN ASIA-SOME AMERI-
CANS IN VIETNAM UNSURE OF MILITARY
WAY-NOTE POI,rrscs LACHING--OTHERS BE-
LIEVE THE DIPLOMATIC ASPECT WILL NOT BE
IGNORED
(By Malcolm W. Browne)
SAIGON.-Gen.- Maxwell D. Taylor, U.S. Am-
bassador-designate to South Vietnam, will
face tough sledding as he takes over leader-
ship of America's war effort here.
Some of his trouble will come from his
own staff.
Some U.S. civilian officials here have said
recently they feel America's involvement is
beginning to look too much like "McNamara's
war," with insufficient emphasis on political
aspects.
President Johnson's appointment of Taylor
will add fuel to this argument. Taylor and
Robert S. McNamara, U.S. Defense Secretary,
have been key architects of the Pentagon role
in Vietnam's war so far, but have not directly
controlled civil matters.
Taylor will be the first career soldier to
serve as American Ambassador here, although
his predecessor, Henry Cabot Lodge, holds
the Reserve rank of major general.
"The trouble is," an American official with
long experience in Vietnam said, "the Com-
munists have cadres who are neither soldiers
nor politicians in our sense-they are both.
We have nothing to match these multithreat
cadres, and this deficiency is hurting us badly
in Vietnam.
"McNamara is a brilliant man and many
of the U.S. military advisers in Vietnam are
extremely capable. But the Pentagon is
not capable of building and executing the
kind of politico-military war plan needed."
Taylor's appointment underscores the
growing American military involvement in
southeast Asia and the probability of increas-
ing armed conflict with the'Communists.
Taylor's supporters note that he is more
intimately familiar with all Vietnam's prob-
lems than almost all other military officers.
They say that an ambassador here must be
more of a, field marshal than a diplomat,
and that Taylor meets the test.
Certainly, Taylor has the prestige that
Lodge brought to the job, and a diplomatic
power vacuum is unlikely.
At the same time, some Americans are
worried about the confusion they feel will
result iron inevitable organization changes
after Taylor arrives. They" note that Gen.
Paul D. Harkins has just turned over the
U.S. Military Assistance Command to Lt. Gen.
William C. Westmoreland, and that the whole
command recently was reorganized.
The Vietnamese Armed Forces and Govern-
ment have been in a continuous state of re-
organization and confusion since the coup
November 1, and the effect of this on the
war effort is still felt.
DETROIT, MICH.,
June 24, 1964.
Senator WAYNE MORSE,
Senate,
Washington, D.C.
DEAR SENATOR: I am in. agreement with
your reaction to the appointment of Gen.
Maxwell Taylor as our Ambassador to Viet-
nam.
Your efforts to prevent the confirmation
of this appointment are praiseworthy.
DARIEN, CONN.,
June 24, 1964.
President LYNDON B. JOHNSON,
The White House,
Washington, D.C.
DEAR MR. PRESIDENT: Last evening, on tele-
vision, Senator WAYNE MORSE said, as nearly
as I can remember his words, that he had
just come from a private briefing of the Sen-
ate Foreign Relations Committee and he left
with the opinion that the United States is
today the biggest threat to world peace. I
have for some time been of that opinion.
On the same program, Senator AIE:EN,
again as nearly as I remember him, said that
the administration's decision (appointment
of General Taylor as South Vietnam Am-
bassador) seemed to indicate a stepping up
of the war and that war would not be very
popular throughout our country. I not only
agree with Senator AmEN, but I condemn
any stepping up of the war in Asia with all
my heart and soul. We should get out of
there entirely.
I am 67 years old. I am not a Communist
nor a pro-Communist. I have only one son,
21 years old. He has just finished a 3-
year hitch in the Army (101st Airborne),
but he is on reserve for the next 3 years. I
think I am just as patriotic as the next guy,
but I would cry out to Heaven if my boy were
to be called back to fight and maybe die half
way across the world for a cause so vague
as "not letting the Communists take over
southeast Asia." I am quite willing to ship
any of these governments all the arms they
need to defend their freedom, a quite du-
bious term in serveral countries I can think
of. But if they don't value their freedom
enough to fight for it, I do not believe that
we should force our own boys to go over
there and die for them-if any Americans
want to volunteer for that kind of business,
let them do so.
We have enough to do right here at home
to maintain freedom. How about the three
missing youths in Mississippi. Is this free-
dom?
I think the whole southeast Asia thing is
first a moral question. Morals aside for the
moment, however, and to talk about the
practical-when are we going to get our boys
out of Korea? Ever? Are we going to get
bogged down that way in southeast Asia?
And after that, are we going in with troops
to all parts of the world, including vast
Africa, to maintain freedom? It doesn't
seem very sensible to me.
I know, Mr. President, you know far more
about all these things than I do, but you
may not be quite as free to speak up about
them. I voted for Mr. Kennedy, and, at this
time, would certainly vote for you. Please
do not let the political criticism, especially
of the Goldwater variety, cause you to act
against your conscience.
Finally, I wonder, to what extent do the
forces of the industrial-military complex,
Saw "Today" show. Hurrah for your stand
about South Vietnam. Am wiring YOUNG
and LausCHE for support.
PAUL TENNIS.
NORTH HOLLYWOOD, CALIF.,
June 26, 1964.
Senator WAYNE MORSE, ..
Senate Office building,
Washington, D.C.:
Have repeatedly written., wired President,
supporting your position. Am horrified and`
terrified current activities southeast Asia.
Mrs. ELSA CLAY.
READING, PA.
MR. MORSE: I heard you on the "Today"
show and I'm glad somebody speaks up. But
they have maybe no sons to send and they
don't care about others. I have a wonderful
grandson in training and he and all of us
are worried. Why send our boy's over there?
I also say McNamara has too much authority,
as did Dulles. Eisenhower couldn't think
for himself, and Johnson thinks too fast.
Tpredict after we are busy across, the Com-
munists in Cuba will start on us, so why
didn't they start on them? They do too
much lying to us people, but we can think
also, that's why they are fighting. GOLD-
WATER, he /bill tell the people what's going
on, and they won't tell us. Keep up the good
work. So you say this was in the making' a
couple of years.
- Respectfully,
Mrs. KLECKNER.
BISHOPS HEAD, MD.,
June 14, 1964.
Senator WAYNE MORSE.
DEAR SENATOR: How happy I am to find you
in the forefront of those who fervently desire
peace in southeast Asia.
I am disappointed and grieved that Presi
dent L. B. Johnson has surrounded himself
with military leaders and their. followers. I
have read enough to know that Maxwell Tay
for is a man who thrives on war and makes
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against which President Eisenhower warned,
act upon you and perhaps cause you to do
things that you do not in your heart believe
in?
I do not think we have been getting the
real truth about Asia, .and other places, If
it ever came to a choice, Which God forbid,
between patriotism and morality, I would
not hesitate to side with morality.
Please forgive this long letter, which I am
sure you personally will never read, but I
had to get these things off my mind.
Respectfully yours,
CONGER F. SHUR.
Blind to Senator MORSE: I am grateful that
we have a man of your courage in the Senate.
BROOKLYN, N.Y.,
June 24, 1964.
DEAR SENATOR MORSE: I hear that you have
been making daily speeches opposing the
Vietnam war. The news tonight of the de-
clared intent to move in with U.S. bombers
openly, and probably to attack North Viet-
nam-Is just almost unbelievable.
Can't there be forced in the Senate by some
of you on the Foreign Relations Committee
a challenge on the basis of war without dec-
laration or consent of Congress?
Or does Congress give its consent-with the
exception of nine (I am told) of you non-
subservient ones?
Does the President and Mr, Rusk really
think that we are so successfully brain-
washed? That we have swallowed the old
wornout line of the danger of communism?
It is sickening to think what our country has
sunk to, The viciousness of the whole affair
makes me ashamed; breaking international
agreements, intervening with force in a
small country's affairs,
Are we then committed to warring on
ideology? That a small helpless country that
has freed itself by herculean sacrifice from
a colonial master shall not be allowed to fol-
low its own leaders?
Maybe you Senators who see, must start a
demonstration on the White House steps?
You could call up a few thousands to support
you. In Greece they had a peace march of
300,000 souls. This was not published in our
free press.
We are worse than a nation of sheep; we
are a nation of criminals, who are demon-
strating the failure of so-called democratic
government.
What;can we do? Are we totally lost? If
the Senate does not act?
I congratulate you for your courage, Mr.
MORSE, but apparently the power that is rul-
ing the President also holds down the free
press, Never a, line do we see, or a word on
the air, about your speeches-not one word.
Most sincerely, but downhearted,
MARIANNA SCHULTZ,
BEST, OREG.
WASHINGTON COLLEGE, TENN.,
June 24, 1964.
Hon, WAYNE MORSE,
Senate Office Building,
Washington, D.C.
DEAR SENATOR: During the centuries of
constant intermittent warfare between
France and England, probably no statesman
on either side had the courage to say, "Our
country is the world's greatest threat to
peace" (at least not publicly).
Voltaire said something like, "It is not to
those who would destroy the universe that
we owe our reverence, but to those who
understand it."
We must then wonder how many liberals
there are in the U.S. Senate with courage,
understanding, and intellectual integrity.
If mankind is to survive, it is to you (plural,
I hope) that history will pay tribute.
.Cordially yours,
HOWARD MCCRACKEN.
P.S,-Will the administration (consciously,
subconsciously, or unconsciously) try to out
GOLDWATER the, Republicans between now
and November?
Senator WAYNE MORSE,
Senate Office Building,
Washington, D.C.
DEAR SENATOR: While watching the "Today"
program this morning, I was deeply touched
by the position you are taking on Vietnam.
You see, my husband and 1 ,were discussing
the war in South Vietnam just before you
appeared on the TV screen and I was deeply
touched by your convictions, as our senti-
ments are exactly the same as yours.
You see, Senator MORSE, we have one boy
in the U.S. Army, training as a fixed wing
pilot and another son in college in the ROTC
Air Force and naturally I'm deeply concerned
about their future. These two boys are the
only children I have. My husband was
called into the Army when these children
were mere infants. I realize there are mil-
lions of other families in this same situation
and I'm sure they must feel the same way
as I do. I'm a hundred percent for our boys
fighting to protect our freedom and our be-
loved country, but to send these young boys
into South Vietnam to fight, especially when
they don't want us there, is beyond reason-
ing, in my estimation. You can be assured
that I am a very worried mother as I under-
stand my son is being trained to pilot planes
over Vietnam in this war.
I have to admire your stamina to be able
to project your convictions as a Democrat,
especially now as we have a Democratic
President in office. This is a wonderful coun-
try, especially where we're allowed to disagree
with our colleagues. We are very lucky to
have such a clear-thinking Senator such as
yourself occupying a seat in our Senate, and
I do hope that the citizens of Oregon value
your guidance and will reserve that seat for
you for many years.
Thanking you for taking the time to read.
this letter.
Sincerely,
Mrs. MARION HARPER.
COLUMBIA, MO.,
June 23, 1964.
The PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES,
The White House,
Washington, D.C.
MY DEAR MR. PRESIDENT: This letter is to
express my dismay at our expanding involve-
ment in the war in southeast Asia. I have
the uncomfortable feeling that such actions
as the construction of the big airbase in
South Vietnam and the sending of new
stockpiles of weapons to Thailand will only
tend to cause the war to spread and increase
the risk of an all-out war with China. Such
a war would, I believe, be most unpopular
with most Americans.
It seeins to me that we would be much
better advised to follow the alternate sug-
gestions of Senators WAYNE MORSE and
ERNEST GRUENING that we make a real at-
tempt to settle the problems of southeast
Asia at the conference table.
Won't you please work for peace in this
part of the world rather than for an ex-
panded war?
Sincerely,
LANCASTER, CALIF.,
June 24, 1964.
SENATOR WAYNE MORSE: Praise to you.
You are definitely speaking for millions of
us who understand the situation in south-
east Asia and know the United States is fully
to blame for the explosive condition there.
Placing General Taylor in the responsible
position of carrying on the war without
limited conditions most certainly means pro-
ceeding to the point of no return.
Thei peasants, intellectuals, religious lead-
ers, and other factions are determined that
the invaders must be removed even at the
cost of losing all their lives.
Complete disregard for responsibility to
U.S. citizens, and to people everywhere, is
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being shown up by the lack of speaking out
against this terrible move of the administra-
tion by the majority of the legislators.
All power to you in your efforts.
Sincerely,
PEARL R. GOODING.
LA JOLLA, CALIF.,
President LYNDON JOHNSON, June 24, 1964.
Washington, D.C.
DEAR MR. PRESIDENT: Is-it not rather un-
usual for our country to appoint a military
man as our ambassador to a foreign country?
We think it was a very bad choice, as it is
being interpreted in the press as -a truly be-
ligerent move.
We are very much opposed to the war in
Vietnam and we feel that you and your ad-
visers have gone too far in that you have
been bombing military installations in Laos
and in North Vietnam. We thought it had
been decided that war is unthinkable in this
atom bomb era.
Yours most sincerely,
W. LEROY GARTH,M.D.
(COpy to Senator MORSE.)
DEAR SENATOR MORSE: Thank you so much
for standing up on your hind feet and tell-
ing the administration off.
The people of the world are unalterably
opposed to war, and you are smart enough to
know it.
Your friend,
TRENTON, Mo.,
Senator WAYNE MORSE, June 23, 1964.
U.S. Senate,
Washington, D.C.
DEAR SENATOR: I heartily endorse your
stand against a war with China, or any other
conflict in Asia.
Sincerely,
Hon, WAYNE MORSE,
Washington, D.C.
V. Cl. ROaSE,
Attorney t Law.
GOUVERNEUR, N.Y.,
June 24, 1964.
DEAR SIR: I entirely endorse your position
in regard to Vietnam. It is preposterous to
regard Asiatics as "outsiders" and ourselves
as "insiders" with a mandate to occupy
Vietnam.
I would like someone to tell me where
and when the people of that country invited
us to overrun their land.
It is deplorable that .t'our's is the only
voice in Congress to speak out against this
travesty of justice and humanity.
Yours truly,
S. H. AUDERMAN, D.D.S.
BALTIMORE, MD.,
June 25, 1964.
Senator WAYNE MORSE,
Senate Office Building,
Washington, D.C.
DEAR SENATOR MORSE: Thank you very
much for speaking out on the situation be-
tween our country and Vietnam.
We are with you and appreciate being in-
formed. Good luck and God bless you.
Sincerely,
MARY R. D. CRISPING.
VISTA, CALIF.,
Senator WAYNE MORSE, June 18,1964.
U.S. Senate.
DEAR SIR: Please accept my congratulations
for having the courage and honesty to stand
up and tell the American people the truth
about our involvement in Vietnam.
I agree with you 100 percent that we (the
United States) do not have vital interests in
South Vietnam and I also agree that U.S.
troops should be withdrawn.
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The United States would have more friends
and respect in the world if we would turn
toward peace. The people of the world do
not want the United States to lead them into
a possible nuclear disaster. Most of the peat
pie of the world want to live, not die.
Thanking you again for your honesty and
leadership, I remain,
WELLESLEY, MASS.,
June 25,1964.
Senator WAYNE MORSE,
Washington, D.C.:
Bravo. Keep your voice of reason speaking
Mrs. D. C. ARNOLD.
ORLANDO, FLA.,
June 24, 1964.
DEAR SENATOR MORSE: The news last night
was most distressing. It seems that the
Government has decided to make war on
China. I have been convinced for sometime
that they meant to do so, but I had no idea
it would come so soon.
The only bright spot is your protest. I
have written the President; he will not see
it, but someone will-if only a great many
would write it might have some effect, but
not many will.
At least you Senator MORSE will lead a few
who see the awful implications in such a
move.
Thanks for standing up to the issue, as you
always do.
Sincerely,
ELLICO'IT CITY, MD.,
June 25, 1964.
BETHESDA, MD.,
June 25, 1964.
DEAR SENATOR MORSE: Again I admired your
insight and courage as you spoke on the
TV this morning regarding our position in
Vietnam. The U.N. should be our forum.
To identify myself, you very graciously
spoke for the International Outlook section
of the 20th Century Club a couple of years
ago when I was chairman.
Recently, Mrs. Scott, Mrs. Morse, and your
gentle granddaughter had fun at a club pic-
nic. Life has to have this type of balance
amid such a serious world.
MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.,
June 24, 1964.
Hon. WAYNE MORSE,
Senate Office Building,
Washington, D.C.
DEAR SIR: I hope you will do all you can to
keep us out of another war, why can't we
stay home and mind our own business? Let's
try to make the United States safe for its own
people, like what's happening in New York
and the South. Why are they so worried
about Vietnam they don't seem to care about
Angola or the slaves in Spain and Portugal
or the slaves in Haiti and Dominican Repub-
lic? They don't seem to care that democracy
took a setback in Brazil. Why can't these
Countries have the form of government that
they want? Why do we have to force our
way of life on them, when they don't want
it? Have we got a bunch of morons running
our State Department? Do they like to
cause misery and woe?
Do what you can to get the United States
back to sanity and morality; maybe it isn't
too late, but I am afraid so.
May God continue to bless you with a keen
mind and a compassion for your fellow man.
As ever,
Senator WAYNE MORSE,
U.S. Senate,
Washington, D.C.
DEAR SENATOR MORSE: I felt I had to write
to you and congratulate you for your courage
in speaking up about the Vietnam situation
on the "Today" show. It is really a shame
that more of our Congressmen don't have
your courage and foresight. Our policy of
supporting tyrannical governments against
the people in Vietnam and elsewhere, on a
unilateral basis has really gained us nothing
but contempt around the world. We should,
by all means, make more use of the United
Nations in these critical situations. It seems
that the only way we can be forced to do
this is by repealing the Connally reserva-
tion in order to make the U.N. more effective
for all of us. Of course, our military will
not agree-they can retain their prestige only
when there's a war, and right now, Vietnam
Is the only war we have.
Please continue your attempts to educate
the public-we certainly don't get accurate
information from the newspapers or from
our other sources of education. Thank you.
Sincerely,
MERCEDES J. PHILLIPS
We. Mercedes J. Phillips.
GREAT FALLS, MONT.,
June 22, 1964.
HOn. WAYNE MORSE,
U.S. Senate,
Washington, D.C.
DEAR SENATOR: I think it's wonderful you
can speak up as you do about this country's
being so mixed up with affairs in Far East.
I just can't make out just what we are doing
in South Vietnam or Formosa.
It seems as the administration would like
to or is trying to get us in a war in a part
of the world. We have nothing to gain,
everything to lose.
I always listen to you. I have never seen
you take the wrong' side.
Beet wishes to you in an you do.
Yours truly,
R. D. EATON, Sr.
MORGAN HILL, CALIF.,
June 24, 1964.
WASHINGTON, D.C.,
June 25, 1964.
The Honorable Senator WAYNE MORSE,
U.S. Senator, Senate Office Building,
Washington, D.C.
DEAR SENATOR: This morning it was my
good fortune to see and listen to you on the
"Today Show."
I congratulate you on your forthright ex-
pose of the situation of our foreign policy
and admire you for stating so clearly the
"mess" we have made of it.
I have "no ax to grind" and am no mem-
ber of any organization, but as a retired
Foreign Service officer, I have some knowl-
edge of the things of which you speak. Do,
please press the issue. It is later than most
people think.
With Senator FTLSRIGHT, I hope that you
will be able to make the American public
aware of the dangerous path our Govern-
ment is taking in the field of foreign affairs.
Very truly yours,
WILLIAM G. VALE.
SECOND GENERAL HOSPITAL,
APO 180, N.Y., June 24, 1964.
Senator WAYNE MORSE,
Senate Office Building,
Washington, D.C.
HON. SENATOR MORSE: You are to be
congratulated on your intelligent stand
against expanding hostilities in southeast
Asia. There are many of us, including Mrs.
C. B. Luce, who believe that we must come
to at least a talking arrangement with the
leaders of over 500 million people. President
de Gaulle has already made the step, and
since we recognize the governments in Mos-
cow and Belgrade, perhaps we should give
more serious consideration to it too. Our
surplus grain can fill the bellies of China's
millions just as well as the products of Indo-
china's rice paddies, and with our grain
China's leaders could probably be convinced
that their present aggression in Laos and
South Vietnam is unnecessary.
Yours very truly,
LEWIS A. JOHNSON,
Major, M.C., U.S.A.
Senator WAYNE MORSE,
Senate Office Building,
Washington, D.C.
DEAR SENATOR MORSE: We salute you with
very full hearts on your uncompromising
stand on the terrible situation in Vietnam,
or perhaps the most terrible part is right here
in our country, where the truth is so stiffed.
We hope to write your name in for Presi-
dent.
Sincerely,
BERKELEY, CALIF.,
June 24,1964.
Senator WAYNE MORSE,
Senate Office Building,
Washington, D.C.
DEAR SENATOR MORSE: This is to express
my wholehearted approval and gratitude for
your outspoken opposition to the adminis-
tration's outrageous policy re southeast Asia.
Is there nothing that can be done to stop it?
Certainly the Constitution does not give the
President power to declare war, and the send-
ing of an Army general along with many
threats seems tantamount to that-just
about. If a sufficient force in Congress fav-
ored it, could not President Johnson be im-
peached? Does he think that he is not going
to get a devastating response to his avowed
intention of dictating to foreign powers for
not following our way of life? (In Mississip-
pi?)
Granting that the President has favored
many forward-looking policies, the Vietnam
attitude can easily bring a holocaust that will
bring an end to them and the human race at
large. Are there no voices in Congress but
your own to- protest and understand?
Again, with appreciation,
EDITH I. COGGINS.
Senator WAYNE MORSE,
Senate Office Building,
Washington, D.C.
DEAR SENATOR MORSE: This IS my second
letter thanking you for opposing the ag-
gression our country is now committing, and
the full-scale war being contemplated, in
southeast Asia. It takes real courage to buck
the leadership of both parties and most of
the press on this issue. This Nation is be-
ing marshaled to commit a crime against
humanity, and you are one of the few who
both know it's wrong and says so.
I see little difference between the John-
son administration and the Republican on
this issue. I will be voting for the first time
this November, and I- see no reason for try-
ing to make a choice where there is no
choice. Instead, I will write in your name
for President of the United States, with
Senator ERNEST GRUENING for Vice President.
Sncerely yours,
WILLIAM RUSSELL ROTHMAN.
ROCKPORT, MASS.,
June 24, 1964.
Senator WAYNE MORSE,
Washington, D.C.
DEAR SENATOR MORSE: For many years I
have admired your honesty and great cour-
age but never more than now.
I am sure that many people feel as you
do about the war in Vietnam, but we feel
helpless. We have written to the President,
but our letters are ignored. For the first
time in my life I feel I cannot vote this year.
Not unless we have a candidate with vision
and courage, such as yours.
Gratefully and sincerely,
VIRGINIA BATE.
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NORTH TONAWANDA, N.Y.,
June 25,1964.
Senator WAYNE MORSE,
The U.S. Senate,
Washington, D.C.
DEAR SENATOR: This morning I had the
pleasure of listening to your comments on
the "Today" program on television.
In this day of jingoism, of far rightism, of
ultraconservation and of the "Let's land the
Marines in Cuba" school of thought, it is
refreshing and reassuring to hear the voice
of reason in high places on occasion.
Of course, it doesn't make sense for us to
give the United Nations lipservice as well as
financial backing and then to disregard it
completely when an important crisis arises
on the international scene. I refer, of course,
to our unilateral handling of the problems
of southeast Asia as mentioned in your TV
talk, One would imagine that what hap-
pened to the French would serve as an object
lesson yet we appear to be blundering into
the same trap that cost France so dearly.
No doubt I am naive about this but I still
can't understand what there is in the jun-
gles of South Vietnam or Laos that would
cause the French to sacrifice so many of
their finest young men and to drain their
treasury.
Please keep up the good work. Many of us
are with you.
Sincerely yours,
CHARLES GUZZETTA.
SEARSPORT, MAINE,
June 23, 1964.
Senator WAYNE MORSE,
Senate Building,
Washington, D.C.
Honorable SIR: I wish to thank you for
reminding the people of a one-time free na-
tion that we have degenerated into a nation
of outlaws, waging undeclared war in South
Vietnam without the consent of Congress.
May I suggest that Congress impeach the
President of the United States for taking the
law into his own hands.
Sincerely yours,
J. ERNEST BRYANT.
Senator WAYNE MORSE,
Washington, D.C.
NICE, FRANCE,
June 24, 1964.
DEAR SENATOR MORSE: We are attending a
business convention here and are appalled at
the increasing military moves by the admin-
istration in Vietnam, and the appointment
of General Taylor as Ambassador. Congratu-
lations on your efforts In getting the facts
to the American people, and wish you suc-
cess for all our sakes, in stopping the escala-
tion.
Sincerely,
JUDITH FRIEDMAN.
BRIARCLIFF MANOR, N.Y.,
June 25, 1964.
The Honorable WAYNE MORSE,
The Senate Office Building,
Washington, D.C.
DEAR SIR: May I commend you for your
timely and penetrating comments on the
situation in South Vietnam, Millions here
and in our allied countries will agree with
you. Actually some of the Vietcong guer-
illas are South Vietnamese peasants who are
tired of being exploited by the feudal.regime
of South Vietnam. Why do we not hear the
truth about this situation?
Sincerely,
WALTER H. MOHR,
Senator WAYNE MORSE,
Senate Office Building,
Washington, D.C.
views as expressed. on "Face the Nation" in
regard to the U.S. Government's unilateral
action in Vietnam.
It is heartening to hear a statesman
attack the political expediency which ap-
pears to be dictating our Government's
policy in foreign affairs. No information we
ordinary citizens can gather explains to us
why we as a nation level a military assault
on communism in Vietnam, assent to it in
Cuba, and assist in such countries as Ru-
mania and Yugoslavia.
As far as we are concerned our military
involvment in Vietnam is uncalled for.
Sincerely yours,
MARGARET H. HANDY
(Mrs. Gardner W.).
MEYER MANAGEMENT CORP.,
New York, N.Y., June 25, 1964.
Senator WAYNE MORSE,
Senate Office Building,
Washington, D.C.
DEAR SENATOR MORSE: Thank you for your
address of June 23 on the situation in south-
east Asia.
Providence be praised that I read the
RECORD every day. The metropolitan papers
do not print such items or distort them.
I hope, you will make converts in the U.S.
Senate, including Senator FULERICHT. Our
foreign policy-or lack it-is something un-
believable. It is zigzagging and lacks rhyme
and reason. This goes for President John-
son as it did for President Kennedy and
President Eisenhower. Only Truman had
some horsesense.
The Pentagon should take note of your
admonitions-and that very fast. I would
have bounced Admiral Felt for his Formosa
statement. As you so apply express my own
feelings: Soldiers carry out military orders,
they do not determine foreign policy.
A large sign carrying that admonition,
should be hung in each and every room of
the Pentagon.
Thanking you again and with all good
wishes from an admirer of your clear logic
(who does not always see eye to eye with
you, but is fully attuned to the Morse
formula).
Sincerely yours,
DENVER, COLO.,
June 24, 1964.
DEAR SENATOR MORSE: All the world can be
thankful to you for warning that our Gov-
ernment which talks about being peace lov-
Ing, will be a most serious threat to the
peace of the world if the policies advocated
In Vietnam and that region by our militarist
are carried out. Surely this Nation should
be smart enough and moral enough not to
involve humanity in a nuclear war.
Gratefully yours,
HELEN W. FORD.
Hon. WAYNE MORSE,
Senate Office Building,
Washington, D.C.
DEAR SENATOR: Your recently expressed
suggestion that we turn over the mess in
South Vietnam to the United Nations is the
only realistic course of action left open to
us in southeast Asia.
I have served in that country recently and
retired from the Army in disgust at our inept
handling of affairs in that part of the world.
There is little point in wasting both men
and money to assist a people who are not in-
terested in assisting themselves. We can-
not win their war' for them and we can't
afford to lose a war there or anywhere else.
Please continue your efforts to awaken our
own people to the naive handling of affairs
in Vietnam.
Yours truly,
FREDERICK W. COYKENDALL.
AMENDMENT OF FEDERAL CIVIL
DEFENSE ACT OF 1950
Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. President, I
move that the Senate proceed to the
consideration of Calendar No. 1062,
House bill 10314.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The bill
will be stated by title.
The LEGISLATIVE CLERK. A bill (H.R.
10314) to further amend the Federal
Civil Defense Act of 1950, as amended, to
extend the expiration date of certain
authorities thereunder and for other
purposes.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The
question is on agreeing to the motion of
the Senator from Montana.
The motion was agreed to; and the
Senate proceeded to consider the bill.
Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. President, I
have asked that the bill be made the
pending business for the purpose of hav-
ing a bill before the Senate when it con-
venes on Monday.
ORDER FOR ADJOURNMENT UNTIL
MONDAY
Mr.MANSFIELD. Mr. President, I
ask unanimous consent that when the
Senate concludes its business today, it
adjourn to meet at noon on Monday
next,
The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem-
pore. Without objection, it is so ordered,
VISIT BY SENATOR MANSFIELD TO
SENATOR KENNEDY AND SEN-
ATOR BAYH
Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. President, be-
fore the Senate adjourns, I should like
to state that I had a visit with Senator
EDWARD M. KENNEDY today in Northamp-
ton, Mass., and also with Senator and
Mrs. Birch Bayh. Also, I had the op-
portunity once again to meet with the
wife of Senator KENNEDY and to notify
them of the best wishes of President and
Mrs. Johnson for a speedy recovery and
also of the best wishes on the part of the
many Senators who had approached me
when they learned that I was going to
Northampton, wishing for Senator KEN-
NEDY and Senator and Mrs. Bayh a full
and speedy recovery. They were pleased
to get this word.
I found Senator KENNEDY in excellent
spirits and, according to the best infor-
mation I can get, on the road to recovery.
He is no longer being fed intravenously,
but is now on semisolids. He is not in an
oxygen tent.
Dr. Corriden, Chief of Staff of Cooley-
Dickenson General Hospital, informs me
that his condition is quite satisfactory
and they expect him to progress in the
weeks and months ahead.
Senator BAYH and Mrs. Bayh are both
doing very well. It is anticipated they
may be discharged from Cooley-Dicken-
son General Hospital in a matter of a
week or so. They are in good spirits.
Senator KENNEDY and the Bayhs asked
me to convey their thanks to the many
Senators who have sent telegrams or
called them for thinking about them at
this particular time.
MY DEAR SENATOR: My husband and I wish
you to know we are in accord with your
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It Is a matter of deep sorrow that the
pilot of the airplane, Mr. Zimny and
Senator KENNEDY'S administrative as-
sistant, Mr. Moss, were lost. We'send
to their family our deepest condolences,
regrets, and sympathy.
It is to be hoped that Senator and Mrs.
Bayh will be discharged within a week or
10 days. It is anticipated that Senator
KENNEDY may well be transferred to an-
other hospital in several weeks.
Cooley-Dickenson General Hospital, In
Northhampton, Mass., where our col-
leagues are at the present time, is a first-
grade institution and they are receiving
the very best of care.
I thought I would relay these words to
the Senate because of the interest
shown.
Speaking personally, I am very happy
that they are so far along on the road
to recovery.
ADJOURNMENT
Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. President, If
there is no further business to come
before the Senate, I move, under the
previous order, that the Senate stand in
adjournment until 12 O'clock noon on
Monday next.
The motion was agreed to; and (at 4
o'clock and 39 minutes p.m.) the Senate
adjourned, under the previous order, to
Monday, June 29, 1964, at 12 o'clock
meridian.
NOMINATIONS
Executive nominations received by the
Senate June 26, 1964:
DIPLOMATIC AND FOREIGN SERVICE
Sam P. Gilstrap, of Oklahoma, a Foreign
Service officer of class 1, to be Ambassador
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the
United States of America to Malawi.'
UNrrED NATIONS
Franklin H. Williams, of California, to be
the representative of the United States of
America on the Economic and Social Coun-
cil of the United Nations.
CONFIRMATIONS
Executive nominations confirmed by
the Senate June 26, 1964:
DEPARTMENTor DEFENSE
John T. McNaughton, of Massachusetts,
to be an Assistant Secretary of Defense.
Solis Horwitz, of Pennsylvania, to be an
Assistant Secretary of Defense.
DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
Daniel M. Luevano, of California, to he
Assistant Secretary of the Army.
DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY
Robert Warren Morse, of Rhode Island, to
be Assistant Secretary of the Navy.
DEPARTMENT OF THE Ara FORGE
Leonard Marks, Jr., of California, to be an
Assistant Secretary of the Air Force.
U.S. AIR FoRcE
The following-named officers to be placed
on the retired list in the grade indicated,
under the provisions of section 8962, title
10, of the United States Code:
To be general
Gen. Joe W. Kelly, 612A (major general,
Regular Air Force), U.S. Air Force.
To be lieutenant generals To be brigadier generals
Lt. Gen. Francis H. Griswold, 94A (major Col. Wendell John Coats, 022964, Army
general, Regular Air Force), U.B. Air Force. of the United States (lieutenant colonel,
Lt. Gen. Edward H. Underhill, 421A (major U.S. Army).
general, Regular Air Force), U.S. Air Force. Col. Theodore Henderson Andrews, 033688,
Lt. Gen. Robert H. Terrill, 628A (major Army, of the United States (lieutenant col-
general, Regular Air. Force). U.S. Air Force. onel, U.S. Army).
The following-named officers to be as- Col. Walter Martin Higgins, Jr., 021987,
signed to positions of importance and re- Army of the United States (lieutenant col-
sponsibility designated by the President, in onel, U.S. Army).
the grade indicated, under the provisions of Col. Burton Robert Brown, 021113, U.S.
section 8066, title 10, of the United States Army.
Code. Col. John Joseph Hayes, 032309, Army of
To be general the United States (lieutenant colonel, U.S.
Lt. Gen. Howell M. Estes, Jr., 1211A (major
general, Regular Air Force), U.S. Air Force.
To be lieutenant generals
Maj. Gen. Waymond A. David, 1470A, Reg-
ular Air Force.
Maj. Gen. Keith K. Compton, 1849A, Regu-
lar Air Force.
Maj. Gen. Henry Viccellio, 1728A, Regular
Air Force.
Lt. Gen. William H. Blanchard, 1445A (ma-
jor general, Regular Air Force), U.S. Air
Force, to be senior Air Force member, Mili-
tary Staff Committee, United Nations under
the provisions of section 711, title 10, of the
United States Code.
U.S. ARM`_r
The Army National Guard of the United
States officers named herein for appointment
as Reserve commissioned officers of the
Army, under the provisions of title 10, Unit-
ed States Code, sections 593(a) and 3392:
To be major general
Brig. Gen. Donald Nicholas Anderson,
0375021.
To be brigadier generals
Col. Richard Charles Kendall, 01104680,
Adjutant General's Corps.
Col. Edward Donald Walsh, 0422743, In-
fantry.
The following-named officers for tempo-
rary appointment In the Army of the United
States to the grades indicated, under the
provisions of title 10, United States Code,
sections 3442 and 3447:
To be major generals
Army).
Col. Richard Henry Free, 022926, Army of
the United States (lieutenant colonel, U.S.
Army) .
Col. Wilbur Eugene Showalter, 021794,
Army of the United States (lieutenant col-
onel, U.S. Army).
Col. Walter Ferrell Winton, Jr., 022966,
Army of the United States (lieutenant col-
onel, U.S. Army).
Col. William Merle Fondren, 032481, Army
of the United States (lieutenant colonel, U.S.
Army).
Col. Lloyd Brinkley Ramsey, 023553, Army
of the United States (lieutenant colonel,
U.S. Army).
Col. Charles Morgan Prosser, 031945, U.S.
Army.
Col. Osmund Alfred Leahy, 023106, Army
of the United States (lieutenant colonel,
U.S. Army).
Col. Phillip Buford Davidson, Jr., 021969,
Army of the United States (lieutenant col-
onel, U.S. Army).
Col. Charles Carmin Noble, 022942, Army
of the United States (lieutenant colonel, U.S.
Army).
Col. Robert Beirne Spragins, 022080, Army
of the United States (lieutenant colonel,
U.S. Army).
Col. Leonard Burbank Taylor, 083589,
Army of the United States (major, U.S.
Army).
Col. Donn Royce Pepke, 025188, Army of
the United States (lieutenant colonel, U.S.
Army).
2. The following-named officers for ap-
pointment in the Regular Army of the
Brig. Gen. Kermit Levelle Davis, 019386, United States to the grades indicated, under
US. Army. the provisions of title 10, United States
Brig. Gen. Woodrow Wilson Stromberg, Code, secs. 3284, 3308, and 3307:
020728, U.S. Army. To be major generals
Brig. Gen. David Bennett Parker, 020571,
Army of the United States (colonel, U.S.
Army),
Brig. Gen. Frank -Wade Norris, 021110,
Army of the United States (colonel, U.S.
Maj. Gen. Victor James MacLaughlin,
018580, Army of the United States (brigadier
general, U.S. Army).
Maj. Gen. Ellsworth Ingalls Davis, 018658,
Army of the United States (brigadier gen-
eral, U.S. Army).
Army of the United States (lieutenant Army of the United States (brigadier gen-
colonel, U.S. Army). eral, U.S. Army).
Maj. Gen. John Thomas Honeycutt, 018975, 020658 Brig. Gen. John MStaintes Cone, U.S, Army of the United States (brigadier gen-
Army of the United States (colonel, , U U.S.S . eral,U.S. Army).
Army)' Maj. Gen. Chester Arthur Dablen, 019020,
Brig. Gen. John Henry Chiles, 020295, Army of the United States (brigadier gen-
Army of the United States (colonel, U.S. eral, U.S. Army).
Army) . Maj. Gen. Thomas Ralph Yancey, 042256.
Brig. Gen. William Nels Redling, 031518, Army of the United States (brigadier gen-
Army of the United States (colonel, U.S. eral, U.S. Army).
Army). Brig. Gen. Dines Perez, 030126, U.S. Army.
Brig. Gen. Chester Lee Johnson, 020681, Maj. Gen. John Joseph Lane, 019021, Army
Army of the United States (colonel, U.S. of the United States (brigadier general, U.S.
Army). Army).
Brig. Gen. Delk McCorkle Oden, 020805, Maj. Gen. John Frederick Thorlin, 019067,
Army of the United States (colonel, U.S. Army of the United States (brigadier gen-
Army). eral, U.S. Army).
Brig. Gen. William Raymond Peers, 021368, Maj, Gen. Ethan Allen Chapman, 019076,
Army of the United States (colonel, U.S. Army of the United States (brigadier general,
Army). U.S. Army).
Brig. Gen. Lines Perez, 030126, U.S. Army. Maj. Gen. Richard John Meyer, 019147,
Brig. Gen. Walter Brown Richardson, Army of the United States (brigadier general.
030597, U.S. Army. U.S. Army).
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