editorial office. Like Nouvel Cbservateur, they upbraid Sartre and his associates for directing their indignation at the Soviet leaders rather than at the American imperialists -- although condemnation (of. Washington ‘s Ss. course is the basis ‘for their. proposals. oF
L' Humanité brands the proposals as "4 presponsible provoca~. tions" on the ground that they incur the risk of. thermonuclear. war.. The Soviet government , it says, is supplying all the aid needed. by:. the Vietnamese to "neutralize the efforts of the aggressor." (The | CP organ carefully refrains from saying "to assure the victory of.. the National Liberation Front.") It seeks to unload :the central -responsibility for ‘the difficulties upon Peking's refusal to form. a united front with the Soviet Union, though it correctly points out that this is one of the factors exploited by Washington to extend its escalation.
L'Humanite's blithe assurance that everyone can count on "the coolness and firmness of the Soviet leaders to hold the military power of the United States. in check" is not shared by Sartre and. the staff of Les Temps Modernes or by growing numbers of revolutionists the world over. While; they reject