PROTEST AFTER NEWS PICTURE
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NEW YORK, August 11
Dr. Benjamin Spock, a well-known childcare expert, today said a recent news picture showing American Marines burning South Vietnamese villagers’ homes “makes me sick with shame for my country.”
In a letter published in the “New York Times.” he wrote:
“The photograph of United States Marines burning 150 dwellings in a South Vietnam village makes me sick with shame for my country. “Daily our bomters destroy other villages and kill the men, women and children in them on the suspicion that they harbour gue rillas. “When Hitler’s armies used such tactics we called them atrocities.”
He continued: “This kind of ruthlessness is only a particularly vivid example of that truth that for a decade our government has been trying to impose on the South Vietnamese people a dictatorship which a great majority of them reject. “It will increasingly earn for us their hatred, and the scorn of the world. “It will not force our adversaries to negotiate,” Dr. Spock’s letter concluded.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30827, 12 August 1965, Page 13
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