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It may be bye-bye baby for Dr. Benjamin Spock and SANE. Last week SANE announced that none of its officers hereafter might sponsor any other peace organizations without the okay of the board of directors. It was slap at Spock for joining the Communisttinged Spring Mobilization for peace and the Martin Luther King, Robert Scheer (Ramparts) Vietnam Summer group. . Rep. Emanuel Celler of N.Y. furious at King, Stokely Carmichael. Celler says their recent inflammatory statements have “severely injured the civil rights movement,” made it almost impossible for liberal congressmen to get any civil rights legislation through Congress this year. . . . Unexpected attack by former New Dealer Thurman Arnold on his onetime pals Walter Lippmann, John K. Galbraith, Henry Steele Commager, Eugene Carson Blake for their opposition to the Vietnam war. Says Arnold: “Their military advice is to stop shooting the enemy on the theory that if we did the gratitude of the enemy would be so great as not to take advantage of it.” m@ Jean-Paul Sartre says it was Hubert Humphrey, on his recent trip to Europe, who persuaded de Gaulle to give Bertrand Russell’s war crimes tribunal its walking papers. . . . Ralph Schoenman, Russell’s American aide, was escorted by French police from Orly to Le Bourget airport when he had to change planes on a Prague-to-London flight a fortnight ago. . . . Swedish lawyer Frank Hallis Wallin has volunteered to defend the United States before the Russell tribunal… . (Russell himself will not be attending the trial because of his age. He’s on a liquid diet that includes seven double shots a day of Red Hackle Scotch.) mM Busy campaigning: former Gov. Orval Faubus of Arkansas. He’s making hawkish statements all over the state, will probably make primary run against J. William Fulbright next spring. Another hawk, former Rep. Robert Duncan (he put up brisk fight against Mark Hatfield in ’66) is expected to take on dove Wayne Morse in Oregon Democratic primary. Duncan. has LBY¥s full backing. . . . Republicans for Progress (group which is what it sounds like) has weighed new GOP freshmen congressmen: rates 32 of them more or less conservative, sixteen more or less liberal. . . . Latest Gallup shows Hubert Humphrey shading Robert F. Kennedy in Vice Presidential preference poll for first time in a year. It’s now HHH 51 per cent, RFK 49 per cent; last November it was RFK 61 per cent to HHH’s 39. Probable reason: discontent over Manchester book episode plus impression that Humphrey did well on European trip. . . . Los Angeles maverick Democratic Mayor Sam Yorty says he’ll support Lyndon Johnson in ’68, but adds, “I can’t think of anyone I wouldn’t support against Bobby.” m Bad news: Tocsin, the well-informed West Coast anti-Communist journal, is in danger of folding:, no funds. Exclusive, Fulton Lewis II?s newsletter, claims that federal funds are being used through New York’s Mobilization for Youth, to defend ten peaceniks who demonstrated against Cardinal Spellman a month ago. . National Guardian carries on front page (April 29) an article it claims was written by long-missing Che Guevara. It’s billed as first message from Che since he left Cuba… Very latest rumors place Guevara in Bolivia, but he ain’t there, according to Bolivian Communist leader Jorge Kolle Cueto, who says: “If I knew where Guevara was I could seij the information and support our guerrillas for tife.” @ Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia, neutralist par excellence, has re_ jiggered his cabinet, assumed emergency ~ powers. Sihanouk in heap big trouble: Communist rebels have attacked police stations, started terrorist campaign in Battambang Province. In _ addition, Sihanouk is just discovering that Red Chinese arms he was receiving for his army are being diverted to Vietcong elements in .Cambodia’s privileged sanctuaries. . . . North Korean newsman Lee Soo Keum, who made spectacular getaway at a recent Panmunjom conference, says North Korea hasn’t the slightest intention of sending troops — to Vietnam despite threats of its leaders. Red China and Indonesia on verge of diplomatic break after respective ouster of remaining top diplomats from Jakarta and Peking. (Incidental note of no importance: the now-expelled Indonesian Chargé in Peking is Baron Sutadisastra.) m Cold, Clear Light of Day Note: Statement by President MassembaDebat of the Congo (Brazzaville) upon notification that Congolese unions were demanding nationalization of all busi-_ ness enterprises: “Let’s be sensible. What can we nationalize in the Congo? Nationalization here is senseless.”

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It may be bye-bye baby for Dr. Benjamin Spock and SANE. Last week SANE announced that none of its officers hereafter might sponsor any other peace organizations without the okay of the board of directors. It was slap at Spock for joining the Communisttinged Spring Mobilization for peace and the Martin Luther King, Robert Scheer (Ramparts) Vietnam Summer group. . Rep. Emanuel Celler of N.Y. furious at King, Stokely Carmichael. Celler says their recent inflammatory statements have “severely injured the civil rights movement,” made it almost impossible for liberal congressmen to get any civil rights legislation through Congress this year. . . . Unexpected attack by former New Dealer Thurman Arnold on his onetime pals Walter Lippmann, John K. Galbraith, Henry Steele Commager, Eugene Carson Blake for their opposition to the Vietnam war. Says Arnold: “Their military advice is to stop shooting the enemy on the theory that if we did the gratitude of the enemy would be so great as not to take advantage of it.” m@ Jean-Paul Sartre says it was Hubert Humphrey, on his recent trip to Europe, who persuaded de Gaulle to give Bertrand Russell’s war crimes tribunal its walking papers. . . . Ralph Schoenman, Russell’s American aide, was escorted by French police from Orly to Le Bourget airport when he had to change planes on a Prague-to-London flight a fortnight ago. . . . Swedish lawyer Frank Hallis Wallin has volunteered to defend the United States before the Russell tribunal… . (Russell himself will not be attending the trial because of his age. He’s on a liquid diet that includes seven double shots a day of Red Hackle Scotch.) mM Busy campaigning: former Gov. Orval Faubus of Arkansas. He’s making hawkish statements all over the state, will probably make primary run against J. William Fulbright next spring. Another hawk, former Rep. Robert Duncan (he put up brisk fight against Mark Hatfield in ’66) is expected to take on dove Wayne Morse in Oregon Democratic primary. Duncan. has LBY¥s full backing. . . . Republicans for Progress (group which is what it sounds like) has weighed new GOP freshmen congressmen: rates 32 of them more or less conservative, sixteen more or less liberal. . . . Latest Gallup shows Hubert Humphrey shading Robert F. Kennedy in Vice Presidential preference poll for first time in a year. It’s now HHH 51 per cent, RFK 49 per cent; last November it was RFK 61 per cent to HHH’s 39. Probable reason: discontent over Manchester book episode plus impression that Humphrey did well on European trip. . . . Los Angeles maverick Democratic Mayor Sam Yorty says he’ll support Lyndon Johnson in ’68, but adds, “I can’t think of anyone I wouldn’t support against Bobby.” m Bad news: Tocsin, the well-informed West Coast anti-Communist journal, is in danger of folding:, no funds. Exclusive, Fulton Lewis II?s newsletter, claims that federal funds are being used through New York’s Mobilization for Youth, to defend ten peaceniks who demonstrated against Cardinal Spellman a month ago. . National Guardian carries on front page (April 29) an article it claims was written by long-missing Che Guevara. It’s billed as first message from Che since he left Cuba… Very latest rumors place Guevara in Bolivia, but he ain’t there, according to Bolivian Communist leader Jorge Kolle Cueto, who says: “If I knew where Guevara was I could seij the information and support our guerrillas for tife.” @ Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia, neutralist par excellence, has re_ jiggered his cabinet, assumed emergency ~ powers. Sihanouk in heap big trouble: Communist rebels have attacked police stations, started terrorist campaign in Battambang Province. In _ addition, Sihanouk is just discovering that Red Chinese arms he was receiving for his army are being diverted to Vietcong elements in .Cambodia’s privileged sanctuaries. . . . North Korean newsman Lee Soo Keum, who made spectacular getaway at a recent Panmunjom conference, says North Korea hasn’t the slightest intention of sending troops — to Vietnam despite threats of its leaders. Red China and Indonesia on verge of diplomatic break after respective ouster of remaining top diplomats from Jakarta and Peking. (Incidental note of no importance: the now-expelled Indonesian Chargé in Peking is Baron Sutadisastra.) m Cold, Clear Light of Day Note: Statement by President MassembaDebat of the Congo (Brazzaville) upon notification that Congolese unions were demanding nationalization of all busi-_ ness enterprises: “Let’s be sensible. What can we nationalize in the Congo? Nationalization here is senseless.”