Word: unjustness
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Rusk received some assistance in his own confrontation from South Vietnamese Foreign Minister Tran Van Do, who wrote a 1,300-word letter to Democratic Senator J. William Fulbright, warning that the Arkansan's "unjust" criticism of the U.S. war effort was grist for Hanoi's propaganda mills and inviting him to Saigon-which he has yet to visit. Fulbright, however, seemed fully occupied in Washington with the latest round in the hearings on Viet Nam before his Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The sessions followed a familiar pattern. Retired General James Gavin, who last year urged...
Gregory B. Craig '67, president of the Harvard Undergraduate Council, and John W. Rawls, professor of Philosophy, agreed that the demise of II-S was a step in the right direction. Both were surprised by the Times' story In December the HUC passed a resolution calling II-S "unjust." Rawls presented the same resolution to the Faculty in his unsuccessful attempt to put Harvard on record agains student deferments...
...serious debate about the draft at this time (as opposed to 1963, for example, when a vote on this issue last came up in Congress, and a group of pacifists led a little known campaign to abolish conscription) is that our government is fighting an undeclared, unpopular, and unjust war in Vietnam. Without the draft this war could not be fought; without an increased manpower pool, it could not be escalated. Our opposition to the draft is part and parcel of our opposion to the war in Vietnam and American aggression all over the world...
...white job-holders give up their jobs so Negroes won't have twice the unemployment rate (the Negro unemployed, let alone the white worker, would scarcely thank us for winning such "reforms" of the system!). We demand more jobs for everyone NOW! Being free not to fight in an unjust war is a right that belongs to everyone, just as having a job is. So we demand an end to the draft and short of that, exemptions from combat for those who object to a particular war such as this...
This is acknowledged in principle by many of the critics, who concede that one cannot rule out the need for violence in the fight for justice and who can even visualize hypothetical future wars or revolutions (for example in Latin America) against unjust or tyrannical regimes; yet they feel that this does not apply to Viet Nam. The evil represented by Communism simply is not as clear or overwhelming in the minds of most people today as was the evil of Nazism. Britain's Oestreicher allows that "tyranny is not peace" and believes that the use of violence against...