Humphrey Gives Vietnam Pledge

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31753, 9 August 1968, Page 11

Humphrey Gives Vietnam Pledge

(N.Z.P. A -Reuter —Copyright) NEW YORK, August 8. Vice-President Hubert Humphrey, who pledged today that there would be no “sell-out” in South Vietnam if he were elected President, also promised to put down violence at home and to give full support to law enforcement officers.

Mr Humphrey told a conference of war veterans in Minneapolis: “We have no intention of leaving the people of South Vietnam at the mercy of an aggressor. We will seek a peaceful and honourable settlement in Vietnam, but I know you don’t want a sell-out, and if I am President of the United States you won’t get a sellout.

“. . . Violence at home and abroad is wrong. We cannot allow aggressors or lawbreakers to have their way.” His address was Mr Humphrey’s only political activity in a week of rest in Minnesota, but he did watch the Republican convention on television before returning to his home in Waverly. Senator Eugene McCarthy, Mr Humphrey’s chief opponent for the Democratic Presidential nomination, said in Columbus, Ohio, that the burden of giving Americans their choice for President had fallen to the Democratic Party.

Senator McCarthy was campaigning to woo votes from Ohio’s 126 delegates to the Democratic national convention opening in Chicago on August 26.

Meanwhile, campaign coordinators for the third party candidate, Mr George Wallace, predicted in Indianapolis that his Presidential bid would lead to the establishment of a permanent third party.