Pressure for pea ce on ea rth-specifica lly in Vietnam-has come upon the Nixon Administration from a powerful quarter: s ome leaders in big business. This is unexpected. An assortment of students, poets a nd preachers provided the first a nd still the mo st voca l wa ve of protest. They oppose the war on mora l and religious grounds, as does this magazine. The leaders in big business kept quiet, as they norma lly do. But in recent months some of the most powerful leaders h a ve been getting in­ volved, quietly but firmly, in statements before select government committees a nd leading councils of business a nd industry. Louis B. Lundborg, chairman of the board of the huge Bank of America, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee tha t, in his opinion, the Vietnam wa r is a "tragic n a tiona l mista ke." He added that "no a mount of coverup, r a tiona lizing, a libing, or ducking the facts will a void the inevitable da y of reckoning: It only compounds the cost." Then he drew a n a na logy: "If a compa ny in priva te business were guilty of ma king such a bad judgment as we have made in Vietnam a nd then of pursuing that judgment until so l a rge a pa rt of its total re- sources were committed to the ill-starred project, the management of the compa ny would be under a tta ck by the directors a nd ultima tely by the shareholders of the company. "In my judgment, it is time that the shareholders of America ­ the people- b egin to call for a n end to the squandering of America n blood, morale a nd res ources on wha t is in essence an Asian wa r of nationalism." Thus, in part, spoke the head of the na tion's l a rgest bank. Simila r views were expressed by the heads of two of the biggest chemica l companies-John T. Connor of Allied Chemical a nd Charles B. McCoy of E. I. du Pont de Nemours . Mr. Connor spoke t o the prestigeous Business Co uncil and Mr. McCoy to the Manufa cturing Chemists As­ sociation. And Thomas J . Watson, Jr., head of IBM, added the weight of his own views on behalf of peace in a statement to the Senate Foreign Relations committee. Behind some of their words lies a feeling of moral conviction • and also economic fact. In the four years before the escalation of the Vietnam conflict in 1966, corporate profits after taxes rose by 71 percent. In the years since then, corporate profits after taxes have risen only 9.2 percent. Moreover, the dive of the stock market into the doldrums late last year is telling us that war ruins profits. Note how the market trembles upward at each prospect of peace. War protesters should ponder this. Some have condemned big business and the stock market on the grounds that they favor the war because war is profitable. Vietnam demonstrates that the opposite is more generally the case. In our developed economy, war is very, very bad busi­ ness ••• which means that it hurts jobs, housing and the supply a nd price of food and other goods. Those who cry for an immediate end to the Vietnam war on moral grounds have also the support of economic facts. New1111/11 Series Vol. XXXI No. 4 Whole Series Vol. LX No. 12 DECEMBER, 1970 • • Letters 4 Editorials 5 My Soul is a Stranger 6 Florence Hooper Why the Vietnamese Want a Cease-fire 8 Woodcuts and Text by Vo-Dinh Belfast's Madness 12 Text and Photographs by Miriam M. Reik A Prayer for Peace 17 J. Barrie Shepherd Behzad-A Disciple and a Searcher 18 Changing Mission in Northern New Mexico 22 Christmas Foldout 27 Receiving the Incarnation 33 Hei nemann/ foto-present Mary to Joseph 39 He len G. Jefferson A Visit to Bennett College 40 Amy Lee Letters From Overseas 42 Without Sound of Trumpets 44 Window on the UN Books 46 Moving Finger Writes 47 COVER Madonna and the Infant Jesus, Medieval Norwegian Wood Carving, Three Lions Photograph Editor, Arthur J. Moore, Jr.; Managing Editor, Charles E. 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Pp. 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, Hei nemann/ fo to-present; P. 39, Anne Ga yler ; P. 44, Un ited Nations l.cffcrs CHILE NOT COMMUNIST buildings. Never a mention of the professional I must register a strong protest for the way students who enrolled in one course, never at­ in which, in the first paragraph of your October tended a class, and continued to be classified editorial "Spotlight on Chile," yo u joined with as "college students" fo r twenty years. The clear the rightist press in calling the newly elected assumption that a student should not have to government of Chile "a communist govern­ obey the law, but should have an "island of ment." Such a designation, suggesting the though. Thank God for our Christian President freedom." deliberate surrender by the Chilean people of and freedom to worship. The condition of the Indians in the Chaco their political freedom in order to embrace a ROSLYN ( MRS. G.) H UFF ( Indians Pay the Price of South American totalitarian system, is completely misleading and Westerville, Ohio Progress") is sad indeed. I do not know what indeed contradicts the rest of your editorial. The P.S. When did we get so involved with Pres­ can be done for them or with them. Any pub­ statement of the Methodist missionaries serv­ byterians? lished dissertation should include mention of ing in Chile carefully referred to Dr. Salvador the efforts that missionaries of various churches Allende as the "candidate of the leftist coali­ LATIN AMERICAN AUTHORS have made, and those that have given up in tion," and to his coming government as "marx­ I want to express my appreciation for the spe­ frustration. You should mention the land titles ist-oriented" but not as "communist." cial October issue on Latin America and the transferred by the churches to the Indians, who We in Chilean Methodism believe it is im­ Caribbean. After having analyzed the interpre­ then refu sed to farm, and many of whom sold portant for new/ WORLD OUTLOOK readers to tation of the Christian mission in Latin America their land. understand that the overwhelming majority of over the past decade, I feel that the church is Two of yo ur articles surprised me. "Nixon's Chileans neither desire nor expect the loss of at long last beginning to be honest and sensiti ve support among Baptists grows after Cambodia any legiti mate human right. Dr. Allende freely in its focus on the real issues we must face to­ incursion" and . " 1,600 United Methodists rally proclaims his marxist economic views but he gether with Latin American Christians. One of for evangelism" ( Moving Finger Writes). A insisted both before and after the election that the most significant aspects of your October slight bit of rational leaven in a huge left-wing his will not be a "marxist government" but one issue is the number and quality of the articles lump. which will carry out the common program of written by Latin Americans. JOHN WESLEY CARROTHERS his coalition which includes three non-marxist JOHN H. S1NCLAUI San Francisco, California groups. This program calls for the nationaliza­ He is regional secretarv for Latin America, A FALSE IMPRESSION tion of monopoly industries, including the COEMAR, United Presbvterian Church in the By quoting Hank Bryant uncritically ("Cam­ copper, nitrate, and iron mines, and of the U.S.A. paign to win reparations from Michigan banks, while promising greater aid to small in­ Church," Moving Finger Writes, October ) you dustrialists.