Richard Nixon grabbed ball for GOP on Lyndon Johnson charge that Republicans would cause the nation “to falter and fall back and fail” in Vietnam. Nixon, in letter to White House, pointed out that 25 senators and 90 congressmen who have been most prominent in peace movements are Democrats. . . . Students to the rescue ; since fall term opened 70 chapters of Student Committee for a Free China have been organized on college campuses ; more are in the works. GHQ: 521 Madison Avenue, N.Y., N.Y. 10022. … Yale undergraduates, headed by John Meyer, gathered 500 signatures in single evening to protest sending of medical aid to North Vietnam by Yale Quakers and the (inevitable) Rev. Wm. Sloane Coffin. New Haven insurance man Irwin Schiff, who never before engaged in a single political activity, so outraged he gathered 3,500 town signatures of protest . . . .Dr. Spock has warned young mothers they’ll have to do with less of him: he’s moving from Cleveland to New York to devote more time to SANE. . . . Latest and worst attack on LBJ, Barbara Garson’s play Macbird in which the ambitious “Macbeth” Johnson is guilty of the murder of king “Duncan” Kennedy. Leftist intellectuals trying to raise money to stage Macbird off-Broadway in December.
According to National Guardian, Bertrand Russell expects his war crimes trial of Lyndon Johnson, Rusk, McNamara et al. to last twelve weeks. It won’t be held in Paris, de Gaulle has said “non.” . . . Newest recruit to Peking’s rampaging Red Guards is American journalist Anna Louise Strong, 80. . . . Swedish tourists, crossing into Russia from China at Siberian border, report. all Chinese books they had were seized ; Soviet authorities told them they would be burned. Books by American and British authors were not seized.
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