FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1966 rUE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE TIMES, FRiDAY, OCTOBER 7,1968 TUE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE ThREE L lies. Welcomes British Addition to Peace By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON (P)-U.S. offi- cials yesterday welcomed British Foreign Secretary George Brown's new six-point plan for peace in Viet Nam although it goes beyond American policy on one vital point. Most important in the calcula- tions of Washington policymakers is that the plan gives a new boost to the big peace offensive present- ly building up alongside President Johnson's trip to the Far East. Demands and maneuvers for peace seem to, be growing on a wider scale than ever before. Underneath the surface of offi- cial Washington activity is a hope, which no top official wishes to state publicly, that within the next months the Vietnamese war can be brought to a decisive point and turned toward negotiations. One reason for this speculation is the, constant heavy military pressure now being applied against the Communist forces in South Viet Nam and therconsequent defeats they are suffering. But what is missing in all the oratory, diplomacy and secret hope is any publicly known evidence that the Communist leadership- the Viet Cong chieftains in South Viet Nam and the rulers in North Viet Nam have any interest what- ever in entering negotiations at this time. The evidence in fact, runs the other way. In Hanoi yesterday, the news- paper Mhan Dan, a government mouthpiece, rejected a proposal re- cently made by U.N. Secretary- General U Thant for scaling down the fighting. In Washington, a few days ago French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville, with diplomatic contacts in Hanoi, is understood to have told President Johnson that the North Vietnam- ese and Viet Cong are prepared to fight on for years. But a constant testing of the determination of both sides goes on. The North Vietnamese report- edly hope that political opponents will force Johnson to make peace. And it is as a test of Hanoi's real position that the U.S. suspension of bombing over a tiny part of the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Viet Nam is most im- portant. North Vietnamese willing- ness to let the International Con- trol Commission begin operating in the zone again would be con- sidered a significant step toward scaling down the war. George Brown made his peace proposals in a political setting-- a Labor party meeting. But they were aimed for a larger audience as well, in the view of American officials. Brown, due in New York today, will speak to the U.N. Gen- eral Asembly next Tuesday and will confer here with Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Johnson at the end of next week. Brown led off his plan with a proposition that confounded some officials here. He proposed that the National Liberation Front, the political facade for the Viet Cong in South Viet Nam, be given a direct voice at the peace confer- ence table. The most the United States has ever said is that the problem could be solved in some manner. But there is considerable opposition within the U.S. govern- ment to giving the negotiating and fhimness against aggression, United States and the Soviet rights of a government to the with the emphasis on peace. Union have also contributed to the Communist rebel leadership in Past peace offensives, notably sense of action on the peace front South Viet Nam. the one which Johnson sparked by renewing talk that the Soviet with his long bombing pause over Union may yet be able to make Nevertheless, officials s a d North Viet Nam last December, some decisive step for an end to Brown's bid for joint action with have often originated in the the conflict. the Soviet Union to reconvene the United States either publicly or The main U.S. contribution to" Geneva Conference on Southeast secretly. The sources of the pres- the mounting peace pressure on Asia as a forum for peace talks, ent movement appear to be more Hanoi so far has been 'a speech his propositions for ending the numerous and therefore to repre- made by Ambassador Arthur J. bombing and getting a cease-fire sent a marshaling of energies on a Goldberg at the United Nations. and his proposals for neutralizing wider scale. He offered a halt in the bombing the country in handling the thorny Pope Paul VI appealed to fol- of North Viet Nam if it would issues of reunification were wel- lowers all over the world to make simply promise to scale down its comed as a contribution to the October a month. of prayer for operations against South Viett general peace offensive. peace, and he now has a papal Nam. He again declared U.S. read- Johnson's theme in the forth- mission in Viet Nam. iness to pull out of South Viet coming Manilla conference of na- U Thant has been reportedly Nam and he promised some kind tions with troops in South Viet engaged in a new and largely of place for the Viet Cong in peace Nam and his visits to Allied capi- secret effort to persuade the lead- negotiations. The first reaction tals in the Far East is certain to ers of North Viet Nam to move : from Hanoi and Peking was to yell be a combination of peace-seeking toward the conference table. fraud. Plans Informed U.S. officials are not particularly optimistic about peace progress in the short range. They welcomed the International Con- trol Commission's proposal for try- ing to get at least a part of the Demilitarized Zone actually demi- litarized. That is why they stopped the bombing in the eastern end of the zone. Yet no one here would be sur- prised if the Communists turned the whole thing down, since they have been moving masses of troops and supplies through the zone for months. Yet in the longer range- looking toward March or April of next year-there is considerably more hope that the combination of heavy military damage and the readiness here to make a nego- tiated peace wlil lead to an end of the war. President Confirms RUSK Makes !PARTY CONFERENCE: i First WASHINGTON (M)-Lyndon B. Johnson confirmed officially yes- terday that his first presidential trip overseas will be the most ex- tensive visit to the Far East ever launched by an American chief executive. It begins. Oct. 17 and winds up Nov. 2 and in between Johnson will cover roughly 25,000 miles and visit the capitals of New Zea- land, Australia, the Philip.pines, Thailand, Malaysia and Korea, The over-riding objective of the trip is to help the cause of an honorable peace in Viet Nam. This will be a focal point of a confer- ence in Manila, which in turn will be the focal point of the journey Overseas that will cover the distance around the earth. But as for visiting Viet Nam it- self, Johnson said that: "No consideration has been giv- en at this time to any such pro- posal or any such visit." Viet Nam is a combat area, of course, and ordinadily Presidents stay out of them. None has been in one since the late Franklin D.. Roosevelt went to North Africa after most of the World War II fighting there had subsided. Still, it would cause no undue amount of surprise should Johnson show up suddenly and unan- nounced, under strictest security precautions, somewhere in Viet Nam sometime during the Pacific expedition. As a courtesy to the nations he is visiting, the White House let them spread the first word that the President is coming. Travel Plans In sketching out some of the details of travel plans, Johnson told a news conference that the First Lady will join in most of his official schedule. But while he is conferring, she will be looking in on "various projects and historic sites" to gather ideas for such things as the beautification pro- gram at home. The President was ready for any questions on the Pacific tour [rip. and the Manila conference, and' these topics and related ones took up the bulk of his nationally tel- evised and broadcast session with reporters. But he started off by announc- ing several diplomatic appoint- ments, including a decision to send Roving Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson back to Moscow for an- other stint as U.S. ambassador. Thompson already had served' there for almost five years - the longest time ever served in the post. Toward the end, Johnson was asked to outline his hopes of what would result from the Pa- cific tour. He turned the answer largely into one applying to the conference in Manila, which he visits from Oct. 23 to 27. He summed up by sayisQg: "I think generally speaking it will give an opportunity for the lead- ers of the men who are committed to battle in Viet Nam to meet and explore ways of finding peace, for bringing an end to the zonflict, for making that area of the world prosperous and peaceful in the years to come. "The invitation, as you know, was extended by other countries. I am sure that they will have some specific plans to suggest. "I want to be a good listener as well as an active participant." All the countries contributing military help to the allied cause in Viet Nam are sending their chiefs of state to Manila. Malay- sia is the one country on the trip which will not be represented, lacking a military commitment in Viet Nah. New Effort To Negotiate Sounds Out Diplomats On Signs of Interest In Promoting Peace British Labor Party Revolts, Attack Wilson's Viet Policies BRIGHTON, England 0P-Two gressor and his victim on an equal few minutes before they were former Cabinet ministers led Brit- footing which makes the proposals taken Brown had advised the 1,250 ish Laborites into rebellion yester-;uncetb."dlgastoretthm day against Prime Minister Harold unacceptable." delegates to reject them. Wilson-winning votes by de- Brown's program, which he said In Britain governments of the manding embarrassing changes in' he would urge on U.S. Secretary of day are not bound to obey-only his Vietnam and defense policies. State Dean Rusk and Soviet For- to be guided by-decisions of the UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. Secretary of State Dean (A")- Rusk made new efforts yesterday to But the British leader is certain eign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko sound out Communist diplomats to shrug aside the demands of his after he reaches the United Na- on anysignCofminerstdinpo Labor party's annual convention, tions today, includes a call for a on any signs of interest in pro- knowing if he met them his gov- peace parley as soon as possible at Nam. There were no indications ernment would soon be in serious which the Viet Cong would have Nfscm.hr rn dconflict with President Johnson's a place. of success, administration. The second resolution, approved Secretary-General U Thant said One resolution adopted by the 3,470,000 to 2,644,000 called on the through a spokesman he was conference puts the onus on the government to pull British forces striving through diplomatic chan- Americans to end the Vietnam out of Malaysia, Singapore and the nels to achieve an atmosphere war by, among other things, end- Persian Gulf-"ending ever-de- congenial for negotiations, but ing their North Vietnam bomb pendence on American support" that he was making no new peace strikes. and to cut the nation's $6 billion initiatives. Vote annual defense bill by at least parties they represent. Wilson and his colleagues nev- ertheless set out to put the best possible face on what clearly was a day of paradoxes in laborite at- titudes. They were quick to point out that during the same process of voting the conference overwhelm- ingly accepted a statement of for- eign and defense policy issued last weekend by the leadership. In it the government's over-all record Korea's Volunteer' Proposal Raises Problem for Moscow MOSCOW (A)-Proposals that Communist countries rush, "vol- unteers" to fight in Viet Nam and then hold a Communist unity meeting posed a problem for the Soviet Union yesterday. The Soviet press did not report the proposals of North Korea's Communist leader, Kim Il Sung. His speech Wednesdyain Pyong- yang criticized both the Soviet and Chinese positions in the Moscow- Peking rift but urged that all Communist countries unite in sending "volunteers" to Viet Nam. Nam. The chances that the speech would infuence the Kremlin's at- titude toward sending "volunteers" looked remote to experienced ob- servers here. North Korea was long under Moscow's influence, then moved into the Peking orbit. Last Aug. 12, it declared its independence. Kim was harsh with both sides in the struggle for world Communist influence. The position of the Soviet Union and Its East European friends is that they will send "volunteers" if Hanoi asks for them. Some ob- servers here suspect that a secret understanding with Hanoi makes further consultation necessary be- fore the North Vietnamese govern- ment makes any public request. China also has said it would send "volunteers" if needed. But the basic Chinese line is that Viet- namese communists must rely upon their own resources in fight- ing the Saigon government and its American-led allies. Rusk met privately with Vaclav one-eighth. and aims were spelled out. They David, the- dzech foreign minister, This was voted 3,851,000 to Sponsors were, at relevant points, totally and arranged-a meeting with Hun- 2,644,000, in the face of a decla- E garian Foreign Minister Janos Pe- ration by Foreign Minister George Chief sponsors were leftwinger opposite to the demands in yester- ter. It was his third scheduled con- Brown, in presenting a six-point Frank Cousins and° rightwinger day's rebel resolutions. The confer- ference wsithrd u counterpart from Vietn peaenplg has t Chistopher Mayhew. Both quit ence adopted this statement by a ference with a counterpart from The trth euplata : Wilson's government earlier this margin of nearly nine to one. the Communist bloc countries in "The truth, unpalatable as it year in protest against his econo- Brown's text for Vietnam was the last,m24 hours. may be to some, is that only when ic and defense policies.- stark: Theere had been some specula- someone can persuade Hanoi to go For the Wilson government the "There cannot be, nor should tion that David might be relaying as far as the Americans have al- adverse votes represented polit- there be, a military solution to this word from Hanoi. Jozef Lenart, ready gone shall we be on the way ically damaging setbacks. Only a conflict:" the Czech premier, returned to to creating the climate and find-.- Prague recently from a talk in ing the situation and the moment Hanoi with Ho Chi Minh, the when a peaceful settlement may be North Vietnamese leader, achieved."L But David told a reporter that Ina first reaction, Radio Mos- RU M M A G E SALE he had no message to give Rusk, cow said Brown's proposals were and added: "We mentioned North "unacceptable" because his plan ooks c' othe' urn ture- Viet Nam only in general terms." for de-escalating the fighting is '.3CJ1Il, sIfu nitur "almost an exact copy of Amer- He said that he discussed world ican proposals." for the affairs in the more than hour-longSc talk with Rusk, including Euro- The English-language broadcast Ch a ,dr 'm s C*m u*n y ' ch pean security and some issues heard in London said both the pending before the U.N. General American and British proposals SATURDAY, October 8, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Asseblycall for simultaneous reduction in Assemblyo sisoboth side. SUNDAY, October 9, noon-6 p.m. Rusk also met Yugoslav Foreignhonb es. 206-8 N. Fourth Ave Minister Marko Nikezic, who told 'This puts the American ag- reporters afterward that nothing ~ specific on Viet Nam was discuss- , ed., C11RC"'DIDT InMC C"T"A DT AAQMflA Y 1 World News Roundup By The Associated Ptess NEW YORK - The battered stock market took another beating yesterday, and dropped to its low- est level since 1963. There was no dramatic news to account for the decline. Analysts blamed continued concern over the war in Viet Nam and tight money. t* * JAKARTA, Indonesia-Student pressure mounted yesterday for the ouster of President Sukarno, charged by many students with leading the Communist coup at- tempt a year ago. -Unoffically student sources said new demonstrations against Sukarno appear likely. 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