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Archbishop Robert E. Lucey
a i n Antonio, Texas, ended
4299 sermon by saying of

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““Mérica’s presence in Viet-

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™: “Such intervention is not ~

foal allowed and lawful; it
Sad and heavy obligation

pened by the mandate of

WARSAW GHETTO
=H sot Canadians living today
1943 unborn that -spring in
a8 When the hideous Nazi
x eoenne was being driven
oe grave. Millions more of
AS too young to recall the
Rea ig in which 40,000 Jewish
ae @, herded into the in-
up Sus Warsaw Ghetto, rose
theres their peoculone
years ago, but it is
a pet Part of the present. It
fhe a of the present just as
Stak cology which created the
© feeds on today's reality.
G ae essence of the Warsaw
resent uprising however rep-
mani, the other reality of
pa seg Whatever the odds,
ot aaa the terror, man
ea and submit to
Wee fire and blood of the
the fe Ghetto merges with
Hae istory of man’s fight for
me om and humanism. It is a
a mark, and yet part of the
Nstream of this movement.

E 9,308. SIGN AD
Teo Sunday's New York
ar S carried ‘an ad with the
San number of signatures
ve ever appeared in

t
en Paper calling for support
t. Benjamin Spock and his

co-defendants. Headed, “On
U.S. Policy in Vietnam,”
»308 signatures

rial:

the
cover

three pages. It was inserted by
the Teachers Committee for
Peace in Vietnam. ,

Calling for the dismissal of

the charges against Spock and
the others, the statement add-
ed: oe

“If the Johnson Administra-
tion-is-seriously seeking a de-
tente in the war in Vietnam, it
should demonstrate its sin-
cerity by initiating moves to de-
emphasize the war at home. A
first step would be to quash
the indictment at next Wednes-
day’s hearing.”

UP TO DATE

No-one can say that the
British are not keeping abreast
with the times. Parliament has
just been asked by the law
commission to repeal 155 stat-
utes, some dating back to the
reign| of Edward I. Among
them, is the act of Charles I
(1660-1664) which condemned
to death Roundheads who
“horribly murdered” his father.

In connection with the month
of national memory, the Presi-
dium of the Central Board of
the Socio-Cultural Society of
Polish Jews has published a
statement which reads in part:

“We recollect and bow our
heads this month to the mil-
lions of people... murdered,
tortured to death and gassed
by the Hitlerites. We bow our
heads and pay homage to all
people who fell in the struggle
against Hitlerism, for our inde-
pendence, freedom, demo-
cracy and peace...

“We shall always remember
with great reverence all those
nameless heroes, thousands of

Poles, who risking their life
rendered assistance to Jews:

supplying them with arms, do-
cuments, medicine and shelter.
Thousands of Poles showed a
selflessness which can be
hardly equalled in the annals
of history. Thousands of people
who exposed their lives and
the lives of their closest and
further relatives were murder-
ed or fell in battle.

“Apart from small groups of
“money-grabbers” the entire
Polish nation participated in
the struggle against the com-
mon foe — against Hitlerism.
At the same time, in those
times of the terrible Nazi ter-
ror, the Polish people had
courage enough to help Jews
in all parts of the country...

“These facts are indisput-
able. It is not the first time that
we stigmatize various reac-

tionary and nationalist circles, °

their slanderous accusations

‘against the Polish nation that

it is Co-guilty for the murder of
millions of Jews.

“We celebrate this year the
25th Anniversary of the Warsaw
Ghetto Uprising. We condemn
categorically and determinedly
the hue and cry raised at pre-
sent in West Germany, the
United States, Britain and Is-

rael against People’s Poland, |

against the Polish nation.

“We dissociate ourselves
from our ‘defenders,’ from
Jewish pseudo - activists
abroad, who during the Second
World War remained silent
and diminished the immensity
of our disaster, who. didn’t
evens lift a finger to help us, to
save us.

“We condemn the slanderers
recruited from reactionary
Zionist circles, who were the
first to stretch out their
hand to the successors of Hit-
ler, who in return for monetary
compensation exonerated Nazi
murderers, remaining to this
very day at large in West Ger-
many.
“Together with the entire
Polish nation we raise our
voice of protest against the
anti-Polish hue and cry organ-
ized for strictly defined politi-
cal aims, which has nothing to
do with the good and future
of Jews in Poland.”

Statement of Socio-Cultural

Society of Polish Jews.
NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE

“| have spoken at many
universities and other places,
but nothing like this has ever
happened before,” said M. R.
Tate, after a scheduled lecture
for engineering students at Sir
George Williams University in
Montreal was cancelled.

Tate is a representative of
Canadian Aviation Electronics
which makes bombsights and
other equipment for American
planes in Vietnam, Students
had arrived at the lecture to
ask Tate to justify his presence
on campus in view of his com-
pany’s involvement in the war.
The engineering students fin-
ally decided to cancel out the
lecture half an hour after it
was begin, when Tate declined
to answer the questions.

Youth protest
mounts in G.F.R.

BERLIN
Twenty-eight year old Rudi

Dutschke, leader of the left-wing .

Socialist Student Federation
(SDS) ‘was shot in broad day-
light in West Berlin streets on
Thursday afternoon. With seri-
ous injuries to his neck, face and
head, Dutschke underwent a five
hour operation in hospital where
he is now recovering from the
attack. He is married to an
’ American girl, a student of theo-
logy; his thesis for a doctorate

is yet to be completed and they -

have a child.

‘His assailant, 23-year-old Jo-'
sef Bachmann, who has been
arrested, came to West Berlin
all the way from Peine, West
Germany, with the special aim
of carrying out a conspiracy to
assassinate the student leader.
He is identified as a neo-N

-youth. A police search of his flat .

: % , A
e is

in Peine recovered nazi litera-
ture and a: picture of Hitler
drawn by

ihe is proud to be a professional
“Mala” (interior decorator) like
Hitler was. During first question-

ing, he confessed that news of .

the murder of Martin Luther
King in the U.S.A. encouraged
-him- to’ make up. his mind to
‘shoot Dutschke.: Police are. re-

fusing to divulge further details .

of the conspiracy. ;

_ Rudi Dutschke, who left East -
‘Berlin a few months before con- =.

struction of the Berlin Wall to
avoid G.D.R. military training,
became a militant youth leader
in West Berlin. American aggres-
sion in Vietnam was a turning
point in his life. He became a
sharp critic of West German gov-

ernment policies, especially its

support of the U.S. role in Viet-

nam and Kiesinger’s enactment.

of fascist emergency legislation.
Dutschke led several large de-
monstrations

cies. On February 18, an unpre-

cedented demonstration of some

20,000 students marched in the

Water hoses against West Berlin students.

Bachmann. He is.
a Hitler lover and he told police.

: in West Berlin.
against American and Bonn poli- |

main streets of West Berlin call-

ing not only for peace in Viet-

nam but also for victory for the’
National Liberation Front; hoist-

ing not only red flags but also

Vietnam freedom flags.

Since then neo-Nazis have

been beating up student activ- -

ists arid have prepared a secret
list of student leaders, including .
Dutschke. <

Leaders of CU, CSU and SPD,
ruling parties in West Germany
and West Berlin Social Demo-
cratic mayor Schutz then un-
leashed ,a smear campaign
against Dutschke ‘and _ students,
Public opinion manipulator, Axel
Springer who controls 80, percent
‘of: newspapers spearheaded the
‘attack against the militant. anti-
fascist student movement mark-

on

- ‘Thousands of -indignant stu-
dents all over West Germany
came on the streets to demon- |

- strate in protest against the neo--

Nazi’s dastardly crime. They.
draw excellent parallels bet ¥
Memphis and West Berlin, Mar
tin Luther King’s assassination.
and the attempt on the life of
Dutschke. ~ : -

In West Berlin, Munich, Frank-

joined student marchers.

Police used water cannons and —
tlubs to attack these demonstra-
tions directed against three main:

- culprits: the Bonn government, '

the West Berlin Senate and the
West German multi-millionaire -
Springer newspaper chain who
were behind the attack against
progressive student agitation.

Chancellor Kiesinger, inter-
rupting his vacation, ordered po-
lice to be firm and vigilant.

In West Berlin, police had to
erect a barbed wire cordon
around headquarters of the
Springer concern to save it from
the students.

Mounted police ride into demonstrators.

= APRIL 19, 1968—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 3

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