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Lieut. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, director of Selective Service, on whether
a
-declaration of war against North Vietnam would make his job easier:
'-'I've lived under situations where every decent man declared war first,
and I've. lived under situations where you don't declare war. We've
been flexible enough to kill people without declaring war."
(New York
Times,
March 17, 1968 )
AIR FORCE CHIEF CHAPLAIN IN VIETNAM,
SEES FIVE NEW CHAPELS
SAlOON -
Msgr. (Maj. Gen.) Edwin R. Chess, chief of U.S. Air Force
chaplains, has visited the 10 U.S. air bases in Vietnam....
"I know of no more heart-warming experience as chief of chaplains
than to participate in the dedication of a new chapel," he said at
Phan Rang.
"As long as we as a nation continue to build chapels, wherever
we are, for God's glory, as long as we are given a place for our wor–
ship. As long as each of us fulfills his obligations as Christian or Jew
dedicated to God, we have the assurance that God will be with us," he
told the congregation at Tuy Hoa.
Five new chapels have been completed on U.S. air bases in Vietnam
since his last visit one y.ear ago.
"No other nation provides chapels such as ours around the world,
especially in a war theater," he said.
(NC News Service,
December 2,
1967 ) Contributed by Martin
.J.
Corbin, Tivoli, N.Y.
MAJOR DESCRIBES MOVE
BENTRE,
February 7 (AP) -
"It
became necessary to destroy the town
to save it," a United States major said today.
He was talking about the decision by allied commanders to bomb
and shell the town regardless of ci\'ilian casualties, to rout the Vietcong.
(New York Times,
February 8, 1968) Contributed by John Brereton,
New Brunswick, N.]., and by .lim Cole, also of New Brunswick, N.
.J.
The South Vietnamese President, Nguyen Van Thieu ... was
asked about the arrest of two prominent politicians opposed to his
Government in Saigon.
"We have just protected them against any kidnapping from the
Vietcong," President Thieu said.
(New York Times,
February 26, 1968 )
Contributed by Nicholas Macdonald, N.Y., N.Y.
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