European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 19, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Thi stats and till of s Page f it Van in All a Jehn ii t interpreter the knows 10 Angl wet its teens the Export out wot a smokes irks Tantry Ivory Botev i the government Opp Oart it so. You too of id wry Nosi and no Patton which lower excavation to Roveal. But hit 48-year-old military Man who fought Tho oils to o youth and then twice the communist and now Tuakoi on All the forces of doctrinaire Liberal democracy it very clearly o Man of great will who understands himself Loht engaged in yet another of Mise of duty. Perhaps Power will be Day corrupt my. H if not my impression thai it has done so yet normally Papado Paulot is re Mote with the press it at o coff Rome he mod to to asking Tho journal a pts in we we Wulw or ten in full wow agony of Greece under hit pro fl9c909vfv� e e e if i 0ltljf a 9mw0 4n Felt fmnl4mt0l Vlf it fyn he Mil in icel pf9v9flt9 mi0 from Dotur Ibong to you the tit a Hon Hie greek people had he is prompted to give an example. His cur Ness at the preceding press conference for which to now apologizes he now accounts for. The Day be fore i Mot you gentlemen i had caught an officer of the military judiciary receiving the sum of 60,000 drachmas in his office from a person in order to destroy a file of a Case pending before i court martial. I had reached Tho Point of wondering whether i would move the greek people if i appeared before them As a new Gandhi and asked them to to Cut away rottenness help in the achievement of the Lintt of Hie and having achieved Tuu Oit to com of emf in Civ of a Vvhs we vow Fly doctor papa the surgeon it not to 1 to Olio fool Wool Hal pm pose in discussing Tho Burrou Focy to once said i shall hang an a Over the head of All concerned i shall let the a fall on their Heads where necessary. The knife will unerringly Cut away the rottenness oven h it causes the patient pain oven of it causes the surgeon the warnings Are alike for the mighty. Their Heads will Roll too if they Are caught corrupt ing the of course when a dictator talks about Heads rolling one wonders Quea Sily whether hoho he is using a metaphor. Papadopoulos figures of speech Are Arr Stingly vivid. I will try to make Tho we of the greek communists at comfortable As Aoi Jual 4jgga i of of Fem Mfd pm we wow we wow f new w new we pm Wobig too. I i will not lot of from Leopoid f rom Thor Cago i will to obliged to shoot them in the Tamo Way Tho police shoot a lion that Esca pot from its Cage in the i Isla Lif Dlf boo one new my i the people lather than shooting Thorn and having blood on the streets blood that heretofore you have not seen despite the fact that some of you have re ported having seen it i will not let them free even if it upsets you oven if it May upset the civilized humanity of certain friends of and bore i find Papadopoulos irresistible. Friendship to told the press is what we feel and Friendship is what we want with All the Peoples on Earth. To Are not interested in what they do at Homo and to should like Thorn not Lobo concerned with what we do in our Home. It would to far better if to Wero All to concern ourselves with the development of Hie societies of the totally a Penlight Enod Rathor than with Tho forms of democracy in Greece. Deme Rary is m no danger but human society is. We should cure the weaknesses which Lead human societies to the Edge of the abyss and we should work to create Tho conditions for True democracy. It is not right that we should advocate democracy in theory at a time when we Are face to face with a pack of wild animals which often overruns the boundaries of All social behaviour. I am not referring Here to my own c wait Natoo Star Syndicate. Inc. Hanoi keeping a Sharp Eye on Progress of . Election the two groups of politicians with the highest stakes in the american election outside the United states Are those in Hanoi and among the Viet Cong. All along they have waged Hie War primarily As a political War and have been crucially interested in the state of the american domes tic front. Now they come to turning Point when a leadership choke is being made which is fre Hwght with destiny for Hanoi because it will decide who will be charged both with the War conduct and with peace negotiations. Max it intr no wonder they watch every move and nuance of the election and no wonder they Lake sides Pas to rotely they have been treading wat a in Paris for months because they Don t want to Start real proct negotiations until they see How the american presidency will come out. A talk i had Early in june with ambassador Averell Harriman in Paris convinced to hat he Means it when he says that America will respond Quick a it any Hanoi suggestion for a co. Tho talks have become a charade on both sides. But just important As the Lack of movement in Paris is the fact that the game goes on. Both groups of diplomats have now consulted anew with their Homo 9vornment$, since the Republican National convention and a it May be some changes in a Paru mood when the demo it decision at Chicago is has Long been an under of belief among some in America and Europe the Pari deadlock would broken before Chicago Andor went Johnson has a Lucor Cea de plan for suspend Ujj bombing and storming in convention for bit a columns own presidential ambitions. Except on the theory that every thing is possible this seems to mean an immature kind of conspiracy thinking at once Over imaginative Over romantic and Over cynical. I am certain that lbs does t want to give up the presidency with its Giddy ing Power and its history defining role any More than Charles de Gaulle does. But lbs has made his Choice and must stick to it having no option. Hanoi s recent attack on Rich Are Nixon did t mean that North Vietnam likes him least of the possible presidents i omit George Wallace who can wreck the election but not win it. Of the democrats Hanoi doubt less Hopes for a Eugene Mccar thy nomination but would Settle for Hubert Humphrey As against Nixon. Obviously this is not an argument against or for any candidate but a simple statement of known fact. Hanoi is aware that any new president even Nixon will try to get peace As fast As he can. But with what timetable and what script writ ten by whom Nixon talks vaguely of using Carrot and stick to get peace but his main Reliance seems to be pressure of the soviet Union which might be a Long and dangerous process. Humphrey talks of getting a cease fire and has based his language about what he would regard As adequate response for suspending the bombing. Sen. George Mcgovern talks of de escalation and de american zing the War As in deed almost every Antiwar spokesman does today. But it is Mccarthy who goes furthest. In a glowing piece about him in the new York re View of books Hans Morgenthau Points out that Mccarthy regarded the War As basically lost despite american Powers that he would first replace the Mili tary government in Saigon by a Broad based civilian one and then lot to make peace directly with Hanoi and the Viet Cong. C 1968, lot Angeles tinier Mother this is to first Tine voting. Never Tinc Maea is to ii err huh won t accept Glamor boy to l govern Manv or Hubert Humphrey probably will bypass Eugene Mccarthy for the democratic vice presidential spot for the same Basic reason that led Republican Richard Nix on to pick Spiro t. Agnew. Neither Humphrey nor Nixon wants a Glamor boy for a run Ning mate. That May sound capricious but it s a very human and understandable motive. Nixon it is now possible to say used Al most that pre Cise language in conversation with his closest Campaign advisers in reject ing California gov. Bonald Rea Gan new York mayor John v. Unsay and to a lesser degree Illinois sen. Charles h. Percy. I ran against a Glamor boy in i960," Nixon is understood to have told his staff aides. I m not going to run against one j. F. Ter Horst now on my own Nixon was referring to his de feat by John f. Kennedy eight years ago. To Long has Felt that Kennedy s personality was the Factor that won the 1960 Tele vision debates and the novem Ber election. To his advisers Nixon conjured an intolerable situation for anyone running for the presi Dency. He raised a vision of the Public the press and the to cameras paying More attention to the vice presidential candidate than to the Man who actually headed the ticket. A Lindsay or a Reagan would have been the prime attraction of our Campaign one Nixon aide acknowledged. Dick would have had to play second fiddle while hit running mate shaped the Campaign. No candidate could tolerate the same would loom for Humphrey were he to pick Mccarthy As his no. 1 Man. Mccarthy s performance on to and in the primaries already has had incalculable effect. From Vietnam to the question of an open convention it has been Mccarthy not front running Humphrey who has shaped the course of the democratic pre convention Campaign. Humphrey men concede it would be almost impossible for Humphrey to willingly choose Mccarthy As his running mate. It could Only happen they Sug Gest if the politics of the convention were such that Mccar thy forced his Way on the ticket. On the other hand they be Lieve Humphrey could select someone with Mccarthy s political views perhaps someone like South Dakota s sen. George Mcgovern the late Blooming third entry into the race. Nixon originally had set a High Standard for choosing his no. 2 Man saying he must first of All be a Man qualified to be president some Day. It is hard to believe that Nixon really rates Agnew above All other republicans in that respect. It s More logical to assume that Agnew got the nod because he was acceptable to the South Ern republicans who held firm for Nixon at the convention and because Agnew in t Likely to compete with Nixon for head lines. Humphrey will have to use the same Basic considerations. He can choose a running mate who will placate his opposition meaning somebody from the Mccarthy anti War Wing or he must choose a Man who is acceptable to the regular democrats who comprise his Delegate strength. In any event Hubert Humphrey won t seek a no. 2 Man who is Likely to upstage him on the to screen or on the Campaign Trail. Amaru in Nev Pip a Ali inc
