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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Vol 35 no. 16. 1972

MARCH leaves Hunter 6-30 pm ROCK CONCERT 5 pm Union Hall "Prevent The Crime Of Silence" We were taught at school that imperialism ended in 1914. The continuation of the American war in Vietnam proves that we were taught lies. While Nixon and Kissinger tour the capitals of the great powers talking peace', the people of Vietnam are being bombed back to the Stone Age. Their crime is their refusal to knuckle under to the White House's plans for a new global order. When Nixon talks about peace he me…

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MARCH leaves Hunter 6-30 pm ROCK CONCERT 5 pm Union Hall "Prevent The Crime Of Silence" We were taught at school that imperialism ended in 1914. The continuation of the American war in Vietnam proves that we were taught lies. While Nixon and Kissinger tour the capitals of the great powers talking peace', the people of Vietnam are being bombed back to the Stone Age. Their crime is their refusal to knuckle under to the White House's plans for a new global order. When Nixon talks about peace he means subservience. The Americans and their allies may have withdrawn most of their ground troops from Vietnam. But these troop withdrawals do not mean that the war is over. An American physicist, Raphael Littauer, recently calculated that every day American B-52's are dropping bombs that total a force two and a half times the firepower of the bomb dropped at Hiroshima in 1945. Not content with putting the land to the fire and sword, Nixon has asorted to creating rain and flood artificially by bombing the dykes in North Vietnam. Nixon has established at least one claim to fame: he has unleashed more wanton destruction than any other human being in history. On Friday July 14 there is a nation-wide protest in New Zealand against the continuing destruction of Vietnam. It is too eas, us here to ignore the protest, to have 'something more important to do', to go to the pub or the pictures instead of marching to proclaim our horror and anger at the murder of a nation. In 1966 Bertrand Russell told the members of the International War Crimes Tribunal he established to examine the American conduct of the war in Vietnam that we must prevent the crime of silence about this war. Do not forget that the American Government and military have for the last seven years used Vietnam as a combat testing ground, an experimental laboratory for every latest device of destruction. It will not be sufficient for the rest of the world to maintain afterwards that it did not know what was going on. That, after all, was the excuse made a quarter of a century ago by the Germans about Belsen, Buchenwald and Dachau. We knew the answer to them then. We ought to tell it to ourselves and the leaders' of our country now. MOBILISATION July 14

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