NGUYEN HUU THO MOURN DEATH OF A.J.MUSTE
In a message sent February 14 to the Committee for Nonviolent Action, whose headquarters is in New York, President Ho Chi Minh mourned the death of A.J.Muste, a leading figure in the antiwar movement in the United States who did much to help bring together antagonistic radical political tendencies into a nonexclusive united front committed to active struggle for the immediate withdrawal of American troops from Vietnam.
"I am deeply grieved to learn the demise of Abraham J. Muste, an outstanding _ fighter of the peace and democratic movement in the U.S.A. and the world, a loyal and valiant friend of the Vietnamese people," said Ho Chi Minh. "I wish to convey to your committee and through it to the bereaved family my deepest sympathy and condolences."
Nguyen Huu Tho, president of the Presidium of the South Vietnam National Front for Liberation, sent a similar message:
"Our people and the people of the world will bear in mind with deep gratitude the noble contributions of Reverend Abraham J. Muste to the struggle against the brutal war of aggression waged by the U.S. government in Vietnam and to the ‘building of the enjoyable friendship between the People of our two countries."