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WORLD OUTLOOK PERSPECTIVE MONDIALE Un Service De Presse Ouvrier PARIS OFFICE: Pierre Fronk, 21 Rue D'aboukir, Paris 2, Fronce NEW YORK OFFICE: World Outlook, P a labor press service =====================:::::;, WORLD OUTLOOK PERSPECTIVE MONDIALE Un service de presse ouvrier PARIS OFFICE: Pierre Fronk, 21 rue d'Aboukir, Paris 2, Fronce _ NEW YORK OFFICE: World Outlook, P. 0. Box 635, Madison Sq. Station,- New York, N. Y. 10010 Vol. 4, No. 14 May 6, 1966 In this issue Page "The Country Wants Out" ...... .............. .. _ 1 Impressive Antinuclear March in Brussels . 7 Israeli Youth Demand U.S . Withdraw Troops from Vietnam ... __ _ 7 Behind the Curtain of Censorship in Rhodesia -- by John Walters 9 Oginga Odinga's Opposition to Kenyatta -- by Juan Santos ...................... ............... ,.............. ............... 10 Student Protests Continue at Waseda 12 The Twenty-Third Congress A Preliminary Appraisal -- by Henri Vallin ..... 13 Opposition Strong in Philippines to Sending Troops to Vietnam ._ 16 The Sinister CIA 17 Koreans Demonstrate in Tokyo ................. 22 Is Nuclear War a Family Matter? ................ ......... ................ .. 23 A Letter from Cuba .... .. ... .............................. ............. 25 One-Day General Strike in Aden ···------ 26 Gus Hall Answe rs a Question on Revolutions __. 27 Gus Hall's Formula for Dooming Revolutions -- by Joseph Hansen ....... .................... _ 30 "THE COUNTRY WANTS OUT'' "America is showing some signs of that fatal presumption, that overextension of powe r and mission, which brought ruin to ancient Athens, to Napoleonic France and to Nazi Germany. The pro­ cess has hardly begun, but the war which we are now fighting can only accelerate it. 11 These were not the words of some somber historian interested in the doom of empires. They were spoken by J .W. Fulbright, head of Reba Hansen, Business Manager, P. 0 . Box 635, Madison Sq. Station, New York, N.Y. 10010 WORLD OUTLOOK specializes in weekly political analysis and interpretation of events for labor, socialist, colonial independence and Negro freedom publications. Signed articles represent the views of the authors, which may not necessarily coincide with those of WORLD OUTLOOK. Unsigned material expresses, insofar as editorial opinion may appear, the standpoint of revolutionary Marxism. To subscribe for 26 issues send S7 .50 or£2/15s. or 37.50 francs to: Reba Hansen, Business Manager, P.O. Box 635, Madison Sq. Station, New Yark, N. Y. 10010. •"• a labor press service WORLD OUTLOOK PERSPECTIVE MONDIALE Un service de presse ouvrier PARIS;.OFFICE: Pierre Frank, 21 rue d'Aboukir, Paris 2, France. NEW YORK OFFICE: World Outlook, P.Q. Box 635,· Madison Sq. Station,· New York, N. Y. 10010 May 6, 1966 In this issue Page "The Country Wants Out" ......................... 1 Impressive . Antinuclear March in Brussels ................................................................................ 7 Israeli Youth Demand U.S. Withdraw Troops ' from Vietnam ................. .. 7 Behind the Curtain of Censorship in Rhodesia -- by John Walters ...... ........ ... .................................... · 9 Oginga Odinga's Opposition to Kenyatta -- by Juan Santos .......................... 10 Student Protests Continue at Waseda ..... 12 The Ttr1enty-Third Congress A Preliminary Appraisal -- by Henri .Vallin·:·:--······: ......................................... .. 13 Opposition Strong in'Philippines to Sending Troops to VJetnam ... 16 The Sinister CIA 17 Koreans Demonstrate in Tokyo 22 Is Nuclear War a Family Matter? .......................................................................... 23 A Letter from Cuba .......................................................................................................................................... 25 One-Day General Strike in Aden..................................... ........ ...... .................. 26 Gus Hall Answers c;i. Question on Revolutions ........................... 27 Gus Hall's Formula for Dooming Revolutions -- by Joseph Hansen..................................................... ........ .................. 30 "THE COUNTRY WANTS OUT" "America is showing some signs of that fatal presumption, that overextension of power and mission, which brought ruin to ancient Athens,. to Napoleonic France and -to Nazi Germany. The pro­ cess has hardly begun, but the war which we are now fighting can only accelerate it .. " These were not the words of some somber historian interested in the doom of empires. They were spoken by J.W.Fulbright, head of Reba Hansen, Business Manager, P. 0. Box 635, Madison Sq. Station, New York, N.Y. 10010 WORLD OUTLOOK specializes in weekly political analysis and interpretation of events for labor, socialist, colonial independence and Negro freedom publications. Signed articles represent the views of the authors, which may not necessarily coincide with those of WORLD OUllOOK. Unsigned material expresses, insofar as editorial opinion may appear, the standpoint of revolutionary Marxism. To subscribe for 26 issues send S7 .50 or£ 2/15s. or 37 .50 francs to: Reba Hansen, Business Manager, P. 0. Box 635, Madison Sq. Station, New York, N. Y. 10010. • 12, -2- the U.S.Senate's Foreign Relations Committee, in a speech in New York April 28. Fulbright's warning to the ruling class came in reaction to Johnson's latest escalation of the war -- the use of B-52 bombers in north Vietnam -- and the beginning of aerial skirmishes between U.S. jet fighters and Soviet-built MIG planes. With the first aerial combats, a spokesman of the State Department, Robert J. McCloskey, reiterating official policy as laid down by Secretary of State Rusk last July 11, said April 26: "There is no sanctuary." This clearly implied that the Pentagon had been given a green light to either pursue the MIG's into China, if they went there, or to bomb their bases in China, if it was decided that they came from bases in China. Such an action could mean the beginning of World War III. In his overall estimate of the current situation, ,Fulbright indicated the bellicose nature of Johnson's foreign policy: "The · principal reason why things are not a lot worse than they are is the restraint shown by the Russians with respect t'o the waro They· are providing the North Vietnamese with a steady flow of supplies,. including the ground-to-air missiles that are used against American aircraft~ but they show no inclinat.ion to participate directly in the war and even their anti-American· propaganda is comparatively mild. "If positions were reversed, if the Russians were conduc_ting daily bombing raids against an American ally, it is just about t:ncon­ ceivable that we would confine ourselves to providing equipment to the country under attack. If we did, one can well imagine the field day.. the superpatriots would have charging our Government with coward­ ice and treason." Why do the heads of the Soviet Union act with such "restraint"? Can they be counted on to act that way indefinitely7. Here are Ful- bright's answers: · "My feeling about the matter is that the Russians are fright­ ened of us, not only because of our enormous power but also because of our erratic behavior-in s-qch pla~~:s as Vietnam and the Dominican Republic, which may make our ··-policie·s seem, from their viewpoint, dangerously unpredictable. "'··· uWhat is wrong with tP:?t? it may be asked. What ·.is. wrong with it ,is that it puts Soviet-Am'3:rican .:z;-elations'. gn .an exceedingly ... unstable basis. Though not as ,_powerful as the .'U:q.i ted States, Russia is a very great pm.,'er and it is unlikely to be restrained iridefin­ itely by fear of the United States. "As long as the Vietnamese war is fought .on its present scale., the Russians may remain essentially outside of the conflict -- Rl though that is by no means certain But if the war is significantly -3- expanded, the Russians will be brought under mounting Chinese goad­ ing for standing aside while the Americans devastate ·a Soviet ally. With their prestige thus impaired, fear could give way to anger, and the Russians might ... then take the enormous risk of direct inter- vention in the war." · Fulbright considers the present foreign policy of the White. House to be both unproductive and exceedingly dangerous. "One detects in·Europe," he declared, "a growing uneasiness about American policy, a feeling that·. the United States is becoming unreliable and .· · that it may:be better -- safer, that is -- to keep the Americans at a distance." He cited France's withdrawal from NATO.as indicative of "a general loss of European confidence in American policy and judg- ment." On the· home front, Fulbright said he detected "the beginning of a war fever in the minds of the American people and.their lead-· ers. 11 Aside from the witch-hunt atmosphere this tends ·to engender, it also has an effect on foreign policy. As "the war goes on and the casualty lists grow longer and affect more and more American homes, the fever will rise and .. the patience· of the American people will give way to mounting demands for.an expanded war, for a lightning blow that will get it -over.with at·-~. stroke." "The first demand," the senator· continued; "might be a block­ ade of Haiphong; then, if that doesn't work, a strike against China; and then we will .have a ·global war." In his opinion, "East-West relations now hinge·on the war in Vietnam. If it goes on indefinitely, or.: if it is. ·greatly escalated, it will destroy prospects for accommodation on issues ranging from trade to arms control and the future of Germany, and eventually it may bring the Russians -- to say nothing of the Chinese -- into direct conflict with the United States~ .If these
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