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more letters to the elt;from editorial pageschool, war, and laiconsulted. I would like tosuggest that the Conference or any other interested community organization take immediate steps to invite faculty and student body opinion on the many pressing questions and problems that are now being considered by somany community groups. Judith KleinTeacher-Hyde Park HighThe guilt in Nazi Germany lay not only with those who actively participated in the crimes, but with those who,v by failure to protest, silently condoned those crimes. Perhaps those of us who are sickened by the crimes our government has committed, in our names,against our fellow citizens and• 90against the Vietnamese people, have already waited too long to raise our voices inTo the editor:We have sent the following letter to the President of the United States:The United States justifies the bombings of North Vietnam as “vengeance* or retaliation.* Yet we continue to call ourselves a Christian nation.The U ;s thisquestionable as sumption that North Vietnamese soldiersparticipated in the Viet Cong raids on American troops. Yet by the same logic, North Vietnam, if it were capable, would be justified in bombing the U.S. mainland.The United States installsmissiles only 50 miles fromNorth Vietnam border. Yettwo years ago we were outraged by the installation of Russian missiles “only 90 miles from our shores.*The United States has used violations of the 1954Geneva agreement to justify' our presence in South Vietnam. Yet that agreement stated that neither North norSouth Vietnam should participate in any military alliance nor allow any military' base under the controlof a foreign state to be established on Vietnamesesoil; and that agreement was broken first by South Vietnam and the United States.The United States claims to be defending the right of the Vietnamese people to a freely-elected democratic government, while we support a Vietnamese government that was not freely-elected and has consistently trampled on the freedoms of its people.The United States claims to be defending the right of the Vietnamese peopleto a freely-elected democratic government, when we have not yet secured the right of Americans in Mississippi and Alabama to a f r e e 1 y-elected democraticgovernment.Nazi Germany committed atrocious crimes against the Jewish people. The crimes that our country has committed against the colored people of the world, both athome and abroad, are no less atrocious.protest.We must pay for our crimes, either through the agonizing difficulty of building a new and more just society, or through thechaos we will bring upon the world if we pursue our criminal course.Diana L. RaderJames E. Rader... courtTo the editor:May we bring to your attention the fact that one of Chicago’s very' fine old architectural monuments is soon to be destroyed unless very' positive and immediate efforts are made to avertthis tragedy. We refer to the old U.S. Courthouse (Old Post Office) in downtowm Chicago. 1 or the purpose ofmaking a last ditch effort to spare this magnificent old structure from the wrecker, .an emergency committee has been formed, named the Save Our Courthouse Citizens Committee* whoseinitial goal will be the raising of funds with which to seek possible ways to delay further destructive activity' by the government, pendingfurther investigation of thefeasibility' of alternative uses. We feel that the people of Illinois were notaskedif they had an interest inPerfect• •every
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Chicago Hyde Park Herald
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Wed, Feb 17, 1965
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