Word: antiwar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...speech "wise"; doubting Democrats like Wilbur Mills bespoke their position with silence; the Republicans tsk-tsked that the President had merely delivered a state-of-the-campaign address. Other non-developments materialized on cue. On opening day, the Senate bickered over whether to admit to the record an antiwar petition by Jeanette Rankin, 87, a former Congresswoman from Montana, who led 3,200 protesting women to the snowy foot of Capitol Hill. It took a roll-call vote to uphold the tradition of delaying such "business" until after hearing the President...
...common objection to the war is that the U.S. is wrong in principle in trying to save South Viet Nam from Communism, especially since, it is claimed, there is no clear proof that the Saigon government represents the will of the people. Few if any of the antiwar clerics advocate handing the country directly over to Hanoi, but they argue that the U.S. has no divine mandate to use war to prevent the spread of Communism. Jesuit Theologian Daniel O'Hanlon of California's Alma College argues that the U.S. anti-Communist policy is "the holy-war theory...
...This means that those who are concerned have to escalate the dimensions of protest." To that end, a group of antiwar Protestant theologians met in Chicago last week in the first stage of an attempt to work out a clear-cut theological approach to situations like Viet Nam. Such an approach would indeed be helpful, since the antiwar churchmen differ widely among themselves as to why the conflict is wrong. Many, moreover, are all too ready to judge the war as "totally immoral" without being able...
...leading editorial, ministerial, theological and professional Cosa Nostra." Thus as long as the war is unresolved, clerical protest will doubtless continue. Next week, for example, when Yale Chaplain William Sloane Coffin Jr. is arraigned on a charge of conspiring to counsel young men to evade the draft, antiwar clergymen will conduct protest services at which they plan to collect draft cards, and dare the Government to arrest them also...
...recent, largely staged film on French TV about an underground railroad for defecting G.I.s, lends their campaign exaggerated importance. West Germany has a law on the books that expressly forbids the recruitment of U.S. deserters, but the radical German Socialist Student Association regularly penetrates G.I. bars, distributes antiwar tracts and occasionally intercepts U.S. soldiers on maneuvers. Helped by other peace groups, the German organization offers to smuggle disenchanted G.I.s out of the country and to provide forged passports if necessary...