UN Secretariat Item Scan - Barcode - Record Title Page 50 Date 30/05/2006 Time 9:35:53 AM S-0871-0004-01-00001 Expanded Number S-0871-0004-01-00001 Title items-in-Peace-keeping operations - Vietnam - organizations and general public (correspondence with) Date Created 02/02/1967 Record Type Archival Item Container s-0871-0004: Peace-Keeping Operations Files of the Secretary-General: U Thant - Viet-Nam Print Name of Person Submit Image Signature of Person Submit <£ " HEARST HEADLINE SERVICE UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. 10O17 O "tit * /.:J' Karai&Bwniliisr UM JCswipwSefil «S& | • Eiifl *.,o tee Mst'5iflTft2c:G .WOK tte iTwfe VLctiira^'i'irt.-iI'M-ii ; haa begua. ta prevail it. elo'iisti docs crmsuit on Hu-jvol OH lies. B &»d M, cluM to t"ne sccre cspreaa tlae iitsp tlsai ell '?-sj:t-£3 to tliu •tici ve feeea svijfc GUS to U^l mR;,v fea rsafiy feT 4r United Ets£K> and tte tTnifsiA Snr'Kie saas Mmo, .possM;/ Easi iLittNjpa, . 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S. and North Vietnam). The situation is very difficult. It is very gloomy. "There is no possibilityjLpf direct negotiations between the United Eg.ti.ons/ and North Vietnam". sr^ We compliment you for your candid statement. We would like to quote you on occasion and would appreciate your verifying the accuracy of this quotation. We question the last paragraph. Did you mean direct negotiations between United Nations and North Vietnam, or between United States and North Vietnam? Sincerely, Wallace John WJrajm 3.0 March 8th, 196? International lbmenrs Bay My very dear U Thantr I am certain I spe:ak for an untold number of women round the word, who would1 "be happy to greet you on this day and thank you for the untiring effort you put forth to end the war in Viet Nam which you have so rightly called, one of the most- barbarous in history. Please accept my greetings and my most profound gratitude; while personal, they are more than gust one woman can feel, they are universal. ¥e are trying to help and we know, how far short we have fallen in being effective. This makes us the more determined to work harder to support you in the almost insuperable task you have consented to continue to carry through a second term of office.Be assured you are in the. minds and hearts of millions of people, espec- ially, I believe,of women whose hearts are touched by your reverence for life and your compassion f r humanity. My organizations, the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and' Women Strike for Peace are among many organizations that are joining in THE NATIONAL SPRING MOBILIZATION TO END': THE: ¥AH IN VIET NAM. It will be the' greatest peace action in the history of the peace movement in the United States... and significantly it will fercus on the United Nations. People west of the Mississippi River will converge on San Erancisco, at the Opera House where the UN was founded, those east of the Mississippi will come to the headquarters of the world Organization in New York. By so? doing, it is hoped in the words- of David7 Bellinger, vice chairman of the Spring Mobilization, that on AT?HI!H 15 "Everyone will become a part of the effort to stop this war- and awaken to the psychological. reality that it can be stop- ped and" to; the political reality that it will be stopped*" Lueien has doubtless told you we5 have spoken abo-iit having the. Re/verend James BevaZ (Dr. Martin Luther King's associate) who is chairman of the Mobilization, David Dell- inger, and possibly Dr. Benjamin Spock of SANE and Dr King of the Southern Christian Leadershop Conference, to call on you to acquaint you with the plan and, receive your blessing upon it, as. it were. I have been asked to accompany them. Now,. Josephine has told me that you will not be in New York on April I5th, which is indeed a great pity. But we shall have to think of something next best to being welcomed at the United Nations by the Secretary General. To Lueien I mentioned the possibility of having a taped message from you that could be heard over the loudspeaker system by the many thousands of visitors who will gather before the UN. And I also suggested the desirability - and suitability,of having Under Secretary Dr^ Ralph Bunche welcome the people. Lueien will keep me informed. Again, dear U Thant, loving thanks. WE ARE JICW GOING TO RESUME OUR ROLE AMON£ WOMEN Ad Hoc Women's Committee to Celebrate International Woman's Day New York, N. Y. 10003 Co-Chairmen February 27, 1967 Louise Patterson Ruth Gage-Colby Sponsors Dorothy Burnham Dear Alva Buxenbaum Esther Carrol We urge you to sponsor an observance of Clara Colon International Woman's Day this year. We believe that this Ruth Gage-Colby Frances Goldin spring is the time to rise above differences and face the fact Grace Hutchins that where women are concerned there be no East or West, Esther Jackson Black or White, Right or Left. Women are possessed of a Lillian Martinez Clara Bodian Masso cardinal ideology expressed in their day by day dedication to Mildred McAdory life and its ongoing mystery. Women are one in their Elizabeth Moos determination that life shall be good and beautiful for all Louise Patterson people and their children. Viola Brothers Shore Edith Siegel Jessica Smith We women whose country claims to lead the (partial list) "free world" are weary of words that distort the meaning of our national tradition and we seek to join with women everywhere who demand the truth in the conduct of affairs. Embodying this attitude, the celebration of MARCH EIGHTH as an international festival has grown into worldwide propor- tions. Although initiated by an American woman many years ago, women in the United States of America have remained aloof from the celebration of Woman's Day lest we be con- sidered "Leftists" or "Communists'". Let's stop all this nonsense NOW, let's stop the war in Viet Nam NOW, let's get on NOW with building the kind of world where children will never be afraid. Will you lend your name as a sponsor of a meeting to be held in New York on March 19th where we shall pledge to unite with women who put life first? March 8th will be past; but we will be ready for another year. Kindly phone us at WAtkins 4-1081 now to let us know you are with us. Yours in friendship and solidarity, LOUISE PATTERSON RUTH GAGE-COLBY THE OF THE REVEREND JAMES REPORTS: A young, attractive Negro mother, Mrs. Diane Bevel, has the distinction of being the first black woman to interview the heroic President of North Viet Nam, Dr. Ho Chi Minn, in a recent fact-finding trip to Hanoi, Despite the unhappiness of the U.S. State Department, Mrs. Bevel, accompanied by three other woraen, brought back an objective and documentary account which supports the outlook of most independent African and Asian leaders and that of France's President DeGaulle. Upon her return, Mrs, Bevel insisted that her story be printed first in the black press. "Three elderly womrn! (Pan African Press) stopped us at one point in' i against the Vieteiatxiese peo- i "Sweethearts, mothers and Phuc Tan Street.." she' con-, I pie "genocide" (the deliber-j other relatives of black sol- tinucd, "and pointed out.! J ate and systematic destruc-! diers fighting in Viet Nam whore an oi«h(,-month-pre- ;-, jtiori of a racial, political or I can forget any notions thatj t |cultural group). She added! the Vietnamese people will nant woman had h;ul her un- ; 'that the war "has grave ra- give in to American aggres- born child blown out of her cial implications" for the sion. The only way white body. They said the bodies of; Vietnamese people and for-, America will defeat the peo- the mother and her unborn black youths from America. \ ple of Viet Nam is to mur- child were recovered some : der each and every one of distance from each other. : "THE PERCENTAGE o5:i them." "WHILE standing there, | black soldiers being killed is we saw lying on the ground , much too high/' she as- Tins is., one of th„„.*, e cohclu-W«»W.