WORLD OPINION RESOUNDS INSIDE THE UNITED STATES
In a nationally televised press conference April 27, in which he sought to defend his crimes against the Vietnamese people, President Johnson belligerently proclaimed, "I am not concerned with any friends that we have lost” around the world because of the policy of escalating the war in Vietnam.
Echoing in this declaration was the cynical slogan of America's robber barons, “Let the public be damned!"
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—Dan
In accordance with modern times, however, it is not just the fleecing of the public that is involved but their slaughter and the threat of converting our planet into a radioactive desert.
Other people in the United States are concerned about world opinion, This was evident above all by the magnificent demonstration which the vanguard students staged in Washington when they brought together: 20,000 from all over the country on April 18. to. protest on the single issue of the war in Vietnam,
James Reston, editorial writer of the New York Times, admit~ ted April 22 that "the protest movement against the Johnson *administration'ts policy has swept the campuses of the country. There has been a sit-in on the driveway of the White House, and marathon protest meetings, usually dominated by teachers opposed to the Adminis~ tration!s Vietnam policy, have been held all over the nation,"
Among the indications of what is happening among the students, Reston cites a leaflet circulated at the University of California on behalf of the march on Washington which said: "The war in Vietnam is a hideously immoral war, It is a losing war, It is a terrify~ ingly dangerous war. And it is a civil war in which the only out~. side forces are those of the United States. "
"The Young Socialist Alliance," he continues, Nhs stromlating
from New York a pamphlet calling ‘for’ 'inmediate withdrawal of all American troops,!"
The swiftness with which the protest movement has developed among American students frightened the State Department, if it did not disturb the "Great Leader" of the "Great Society."
It was decided to send out squadrons of officials to all the universities to present the "case" of the White House for the war in Vietnam. Their reception by students and teachers who have been intensively studying all the available facts should provide an admirable