The final session. was. addressed by. Konni Zilliacus, a member everything it could to convince the Labour party congress and the Trades Union Congress, scheduled for later in the year, that Wilson must change his attitude towards the Vietnam war. Zillidcus said that he was sure the left would have an antiwar majority in both congresses and could put tremendous pressure on the government through the parliamentary group.
Claude Bourdet, a municipal councillor of the Parti Socialiste Unifié [United Socialist party] in Paris, warned that the USA, not knowing how to escape from its self-entrapment, might start a third world war.
For the German trade-union youth, a secretary of the Wood — Workers read a resolution in the name of his organization which had been adopted by the congress of the Confederation of German Trade Unions. The resolution called for an immediate cease-fire in Vietnam and negotiations on the basis of the Geneva agreement.
Heinz Brandt, who spent ten years in a German concentration ~ camp and three years in a Stalinist prison in East Germany, and who is now on. the editorial staff of the Metal Workers paper Metall, said: aah & a
"Vietnam may be far away, but ‘Auschwitz is ‘hear. ‘How can we overcome the guilt of the past, if we assume responsibility -- if only by keeping Silent -- for the guilt of today?"
“He ‘called for opposition to any. chauvinist ‘anti-Americanisn and for support . to.."the other America" which is. fighting against the war in Vietnam’ _just as;we are. a
Two telegrams were sent by the ‘meeting: one ‘to Senator Morse to encourage him in his fight against the war in Vietnam; the other to Chancelor Erhard, telling him that he has no right to speak for the German people when he declares that Germany is giving "moral support" to the USA.in its war in Vietnam.
HEKMATDJOU'S WIFE APPEALS FOR HELP
Mahine Hekmatdjou, the wife of Parviz Hekmatdjou, who was sentenced to death by an Iranian military tribunal in a secret trial, has appealed for help to save her husband. She is at present in Europe with her two children. In a letter to Le Monde, she said:
"Knowing the profound patriotism of my husband, his humane sentiments and his sincere love for everything concerning the legitimate interests of the Iranian people, I am absolutely certain he is innocent and I can assure you that he is being persecuted only because of his political and social opinions."'She hopes that international opinion will persuade the shah to commute the savage sentence.
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