Women's Peace Talks End

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30807, 20 July 1965, Page 15

Women's Peace Talks End

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) DJAKARTA, July 19. Members of the United States Women’s Strike for Peace mission signed a joint statement yesterday with a delegation of Viet Cong and Communist North Vietnamese women, deploring United States “military aggression” in Vietnam, the official Indonesian news agency, Antara, reported.

“We urge American women to work with dedication to stop the war in Vietnam,” it quoted the statement as saying. The 10 Americans held closed meetings with the Communist Vietnamese women in Djakarta last week under the auspices of an Indonesian women’s movement. Antara said. Before their scheduled departure for London, the Americans were received by President Sukarno. “I am very glad that you have chosen Djakarta as your meeting place,” he told them. He said it was the right place for talks on world peace.

Antara and Indonesian newspapers were silent on the presence of the women last week, but they have extensive coverage to the reported joint peace appeal.

Antara quoted the statement as saying: “This war is an imminent threat to peace not only in South-east Asia but throughout the world . . . the United States has expanded the war far into North Vietnam, where American planes have dropped

tons of bombs on villages, schools and hospitals, as well as roads and bridges. “The American people should not condone this cruel war which is daily killing American men and Vietnamese people. American mothers have not born and brought up their sons to kill the innocent and to sacrifice themselves in an unjust cause.”