Bob Hope in serious mood
(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) NEW YORK, March 8. The comedian, Bob Hope, replying to criticism of him in connection with a church award, said last night that he had been falsely portrayed as favouring the Vietnam war. “I’ve been falsely accused of being pro-war,” he said. “It’s like accusing a doctor who gives a patient two aspirins for a headache of being pro-headache.” Last year, the New York City Council of Churches reversed a decision to give Mr Hope its annual “Family of Man” award after protests that he was identified with the war.
Mr Hope, who has for years entertained troops in several theatres of war, told guests at the twenty-third annual dinner of Religion in American Life: “I could never be pro-war—l’ve seen too much of it, but it is inconceivable that we would ask our boys to serve in a war without some touchstone of sympathy and support for
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 32861, 9 March 1972, Page 15
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