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A GERMAN COLUMNIST NAMES JOHNSON'S ACTIONS
There are many signs of uneasiness in Germany over Johnson's belligerent foreign policy. A good indication of the course of.-..: thinking is provided by an article written by Sebastian Haffner in the June 13 issue of Stern. Haffner, one of Germany's best known columnists ran with the pack of cold-war extremists until he came to realize what an atomic war against "Communism" could signify for humanity. Stern is Germany's biggest illustrated pubiication, having a circulation of 1,700,000. It is read by an estimated audience of 10,000,000 people.
"T am not an anti-American," Haffner wrote. "On the contrary, I am an admirer and defender of America. I cherish the still unmatched model of liberal democracy to be found in the United States of America,..Nevertheless I believe it is absolutely necessary to speak out and say that the American actions in Vietnam and Santo Domingo are not merely political mistakes, but crimes. It is difficult to see wherein what President Johnson is doing differs from the deeds for which Ribbentrop was hanged at Nuremberg and the Soviet Union was condemned when it crushed the Hungarian uprising."
"In Vietnam," Haffner continued, "Johnson is conducting a cruel war of destruction against a country that has done nothing at all against America and that only wants to live the way it finds best. That is why everything in Vietnam, painfully constructed in the struggle against poverty, is now being blown to bits by the daily American bombings.
"In Santo Domingo an uprising occurred against a military junta that had ousted a freely elected government. Whereupon a huge American army invaded the country in order to restore dictatorial
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rule through the use of armed force,
"In both instances aggression was involved -- something not only declared to be a crime in the Nuremberg Charter of 1945, but the greatest of crimes...
"At home Johnson is certainly no Hitler. In the racial strife he has even acted as a progressive reformer and he has not ended American democracy. Thank heaven for that! Thus there is still hope that the Americans themselves, through the democratic process, will restore reason to a President now running amok and prevent a third world war. However, Hitler's worst crime, not staying at home but arrogating to himself the right to invade foreign countries by force of arms, has, alas, been committed by President Johnson, too. And unfortunately it is to be feared that this can end in a world WAL eeee
“Americats friends and allies, including the Federal Republic [West Germany] need moral courage. They should warn President Johnson in unmistakable terms -~- if possible all with one voice. This together with the warning voices to be heard inside the country, saving Americats honor, could possibly still prevent the threatening disaster. If through cowardice, we fail to tell the Americans the name of their deeds, the time can come quicker than might be thought when all that remains to be said is "Kach man for himself!"
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