Demonstrations Thwart
Asserted Aim of Peace
WASHINGTON — Demonstra
tions against the draft law and
against participation in the Viet
nam conflict may actually be
prolonging the fighting in Vi
etnam, in the opinion of top offi
cials here.
President Johnson, in Bethesda
naval hospital, set the tone for of
ficial condemnation of the demon
strations. White House Press Sec
retary Bill D. Moyers said the Pres
ident feels these demonstrations
“wrongfully portray to our adver
saries i. picture that does not exist
with the general public.”
In this connection, Attorney
General Nicholas de B. Katzenbach
said “everyone knows and has read
recent polls by both Gallup and
Harris showing increased support
for what we are doing in South
Vietnam on the part of the Ameri
ican people.”
Sen. Mike Mansfield of Montana,
Curia Officials
Face Retirement?
VATICAN CITY _(NC)— Vati
can officials have given a “no com
ment” reply to reports that Pope
Paul VI will issue a document on
certain aspects of reform of the
Roman curia, the Church’s central
administrative offices.
The reports said the document
would be published before the end
of the ecumenical council and
would prescribe a mandatory re
tirement age of 70 for all curia
positions as well as papal diplo
matic posts. It was reported the
document would also provide for
automatic suspension from office
of all cardinal heads of curia con
gregations upon the death of a
pontiff, leaving the newly elected
pope free to reconfirm or shift
positions.
Authoritative Vatican sources
said changes are “probable” but
were unwilling to speculate wheth
er they would be announced soon
or be included later in proposals
for a general reorganization of the
curia which the Pope is known to
have been working on for many
months.
Whether the retirement rule
would apply to current incumbents
—who include 28 cardinals, all but
six of them over 70—was not
specified and Vatican sources were
unwilling to speculate.
Senate majority leader, said:
“these people are undermining
what the President is trying to do,
to bring about a negotiated settle
ment in Vietnam.”
Almost immediately there was
apparent vindication of the con
tentions of the President and Sen.
Mansfield. Wire services reported,
by way of Japan, that within hours
the official newspaper of commun
ist North Vietnam’s government
carried a picture of a young man
burning a draft card. The picture
appeared in the newspaper Nhan
Dan, and the North Vietnam news
agency saw that word of it got
around. This North Vietnamese pa
per applauded this action by an
American, and linked it to the Oct.
14 act of Lord Bertrand Russell,
the English pacifist who opposes
U.S. policy in Vietnam, and who
tore up his Labor Party card.
Months ago, dispatches from
South Vietnam to the Catho
lic press warned that demonstra
tions of various sorts in this coun
try staged to protest U.S. participa
tion in the Vietnam struggle were
quickly picked up by the propa
ganda and news media in North
Vietnam and turned against the
U.S.
It is the hope of the administra
tion here that the North Vietnam
ese leaders can be convinced they
cannot win in their attempt to take
over South Vietnam, and that they
can be induced to come to the
conference table for a peaceful set
tlement. It is the contention of
leaders here that demonstrations
and protests in this country, how
ever unrepresentative they may be
of public sentiment, are useful to
our enemies in Hanoi, and provide
them with an excuse for avoiding
the conference table and a peace
ful settlement of the Vietnam con
flict
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SECRETARY GENERAL —
Msgr. Raymond P. Etteldorf,
a former editor of The Wit
ness, Dubuque archdiocesan
newspaper, is secretary gen
eral of the international
headquarters in Rome of the
Society for the Propagation
of the Faith.
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Nuclear War Outstrips
Former Moral Categories
VATICAN CITY —(NC)— Ber
nard Cardinal Alfrink of Utrecht,
The Netherlands, has declared
that modern war with its nuclear,
bacteriological and chemical weap
ons, “would be so disastrous that
it cannot be classified under an
cient ethical categories.”
As a consequence, he asserted,
“war must be considered as an ab
solutely outmoded means of solv
ing problems.”
The Dutch cardinal spoke at a
press conference organized by the
ecumenical council’s press office.
He is the international president
of Pax Christi, Catholic organiza
tion for peace.
“The question is no longer one
of war or peace, but rather one of
life or death,” he said. He de
scribed this assertion as an “ethi
cal problem which must be recog
nized not only by every Christian
of good will but also by every hu
man conscience.”
He said he shares to a certain
point the opinion that all war is in
flagrant opposition to the Gospel.
But he added that this principle
cannot be taken as the exclusive
foundation of work for peace.
“Human weakness is such that sit
uations arise in which the mainte
nance of peace does not depend on
only one side of a dispute ... Self
defense and the defense of others
is a duty which has its roots in the
Gospel,” he stated.
TO PREVENT war, he said,
“new means must be sought out,
new structures and new forms of
regulating international rela
tions.”
In this regard he cited Pope John
XXIII’s encyclical, Pacem in Ter
ris, which declared that “justice,
right reason and the sense of hu
man dignity demand ... that
atomic weapons be outlawed.”
He asserted that this text has
been widely misinterpreted. “In
this context it means not that the
Church should prohibit atomic
weapons but that they should be
prohibited by the community of
peoples itself.”
Referring to the treatment of
atomic war in the council’s draft
document cm the Church in the
modern world as “a veritable trea- *
tise of ethics on the use of arms,”
he continued:
“But it is clear that this has not
abolished war. There still can be
ecclesiastical documents of great
force, and all Christian churches
may proceed to a unanimous com ,
demnation of modern weapons.
But if men are unwilling to listen,
the problem cannot be solved and
war will always remain a terrible
threat.”
He asked whether the criterion
of a just war is still acceptable.
“Those who would discard this the
ory as outdated are becoming in
creasingly numerous,” he said,
"‘because a war which would en
tail the use of ABC (atomic, bio
logical and chemical) arms could
only with difficulty be regarded as
just inasmuch as the harm which
would result from it would far out
weigh the injustice inflicted.”
Cardinal Alfrink, pleading that
he did not want to discuss politics,
declined a reporter’s request that -r
he evaluate the morality of the
war in Vietnam.
Woods Elected President
Donald A. Woods, Jr., a senior
at Belmont Abbey College, has
been elected president of Tau
Kappa Epsilon Fraternity. A resi
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he is a candidate for the Bachelor
of Arts degree, majoring in His
tory. —
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Character is the foundation stone
on which it stands and its aim is
to create a healthy spirit of asso
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students of the college.
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