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...Love, Not War. Many left-wing Americans-including Senior Socialist Norman Thomas-refused to throw in with King, Carmichael & Co. Because the pitch of their protest made it seem that Hanoi was innocent of any aggressive role in the war, even the Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy refused to take part, though SANE Co-Chairman Dr. Benjamin Spock spoke at the New York demonstration...
Most of the groups joined the coalition with misgivings. The National Council of Students for a Democratic Society refused to endorse the march at the December meeting and finally came around just two weeks before the demonstration. Ronald Yank, a Harvard Law student and SDS co-chairman, commented on the hesitancy. He said many SDS people were turned off by King's position on the war, "which ignores the fact of U.S. imperialism." He said King was primarily concerned because the poverty program was suffering from the war, and Yank thought that was a pretty superficial basis for opposition. "They...
...National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy, 23,000 strong, split over the Mobilization. It never endorsed the demonstration although Dr. Benjamin Spock, SANE co-chairman, was a Mobilization leader and many SANE members marched. It is understood that SANE withheld official endorsement because some members found the Spring Mobilization too one-sided in laying blame for the war--almost all on Washington...
...Cambridge Fair Housing Committee, according to Mrs. Witt, one of the co-chairman, has already found numerous instances of discrimination in the City. Until now, the Committee has been devoting its efforts to aiding and advising specific Negro families and individuals seeking housing in Cambridge...
Three of the panelists -- two organizers of the PBH group and a past co-chairman of SDS -- discussed Lodge's "criteria' 'in relation to their work in this country...