Rep. Richard Roudebush (R. , Ind.) is asking why Gaylord Guy King, 25, under indictment as draft dodger, head of the Indiana U. chapter of the W. E. B. DuBois Club (which Justice Department wants listed as Communist-front) is receiving nearly $5,000 from U.S. Government to pursue his studies under a National Science grant. … In contrast, consider conduct of 19-year-old Jackie Robinson Jr., wounded in Vietnam, who asked to be returned to his unit, not home to safety. . . . Even friends of Yale prof. and Hanoi-trekker Staught on Lynd feel his application for membership in W.E.B. DuBois clubs was eensie- weensiely headline-motivated. .
U.S. maritime union ban on ships trading with Hanoi having some effect. Greek Government ordered all Greek ships trading with North Vietnam to quit same as of March 10. . . . Picket of British consulate in Detroit by energetic right-wing “Breakthrough” group resulted in agreement by Consul L. J. P. J. Craig to pass on criticism of British trading with Hanoi to Her Majesty’s government. . . . U.S. Marines, combing out Vietcong tunnels in Danang area, have turned up facsimiles of a peacenik ad that appeared in U.S. papers last fall, signed by Youth Against War and Fascism. It was attached to propaganda addressed to American troops.




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