European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 20, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                              20, 1968 the stars and stripes Page lower our voices and give greeks time the report. Ca Tion in Greet submitted Hie Council of h a hostile i the revolution government and Reeoma hat the Council  ores ure on the greek govern men to a Liberal lie a current draft of the Constitution b grand full Freedom of All non common it parties to organize them ulves prior to the vote on the new Constitution and c pledge itself to activate in Tanly the whole of the Constitution the Day after t is voted on always As suming of course that the judg ment is favourable. And so on and so on and so on. The subject becomes tedious not because the destiny of per Sonal Freedom in Greece is a tedious subject but because every body and his Mother hat been instructing Greece on How to pro cited to bring about True democracy and the maximization of Freedom. British newspapers for instance speaking for a people which would probably give a Mailer percentage of their vote to the Wilson government than the greek people would give to Morrow to the Papadopoulos government. The United nations commission on human rights among whose members Are representatives of Stater that Haven t had general elections free speech Hareas Corpus or la Bor unions since before the first world War. If the Council of Europe votes to oust Greece As a member nation the foreign minister or. Pipi Nelis observed wryly then perhaps Greece could proceed As Poland Czechoslovakia and rus Sia do without any of the obligations of member  under such a barrage it is no wonder that Many greeks while adamantly holding by the Neces sity to reintroduce Freedom in Greece Are cynical about the concern of Western democrats. Suddenly everyone has become an expert on democracy and its shortcomings in Greece. We shall not be surprised wrote an Athens newspaper Eleftheros Kosmos if the critics print vis iting cards mentioning demo crat1 As their  the salient Points Are these 1 the government is pledged to put Forward a Constitution by september. The present draft of that Constitution permits a constitutional court to proscribe political parties or organizations whose goals Are Likely to Over throw the established social or  it is maintained in Athens that this in t really different from the workable West German Constitution which has similar arrangements. In fact there Are differences the West German code talks not about the social order but about the demo cratic  2 All the ministers in or. Papadopoulos s government Are pledged to come Forward with a Constitution which guarantees individual human rights Asun Equi vocally As the human rights provisions of the United nations and the Council of Europe. These rights Are not yet elaborated but no one is discussing a postponement of the september deadline. And critics who insist on instant application of the paradigm tend to forget that the existing government exists be cause the antecedent situation proved unworkable at any rate that is the rationale of the Revo Lution if it were As simple As founding a new political party and setting things right observed or. Ladas Secretary Gen eral of the ministry of Public policy we should simply have done  you have to accept said or. Stamatopoulos the socialist who is now direct or of press and information for the new government that this is a  3 i doubt if it will prove to be such by conventional stand Ards. Certainly it is not a social revolution. If it proves to be any thing of strategic significance it will be a revolution against parliamentary chaos something on the order of the change Between the fourth and fifth French republics Only one Hopes More successful. No Constitution will Ever produce a divine and Eter Nal equilibrium Between Freedom and order. Papadopoulos is not Likely to succeed where Plato and Aristotle failed. The principal democratic contenders for the presidency of the United states Are under severe pressure to denounce the Junta in Greece. Or. Nixon quite wisely declined to do so. If Greece is headed for a Long night of tyranny there is time to bring pressure. But on the existing record Greece is engaged in trying one More time previous attempts having failed to bring Freedom and a National regeneration. We should lower our voices and give them time. C Washington Star Syndicate inc. Alan Emory the contenders did Lindsay grab gop s brass ring question of the Day did mayor John v. Lindsay grab the brass ring at the Republican n tonal convention by not Bim nominated for vice presides there is already some polite. Speculation that Lindsay s failure to land the second spot on the ticket headed by Richard m. Nixon might prove to to the same kind of Good Luck that be fell the late John f. Kennedy when he missed out on a vice presidential nomination in 1956. The democrats got swamped 12 years ago and Kennedy built on his near miss at the Conven Tion by winning a landslide re election to the Senate two years later and a first ballot presiden tial nomination in 1960. Lindsay May now be setting in motion a similar Long Range political plan. A number of party Strong men have already advised him to make the rounds of gop meetings across the country in the next four years amassing leadership Good will to to trans lated into Delegate votes in 972 especially if the republicans lose in november. Lindsay helped squelch a last minute bid to put him on the ticket in place of Maryland gov. Spiro t. Agnew but chances Are the bid would have fallen far Short of its Mark anyhow. What the mayor will do for a gop ticket this year is a question. Although he said after being elected that he would virtually Wear off partisan poli he made a real Effort to get gov. Nelson a. Rockefeller nominated for president. The mayor did whatever the Rockefeller staff asked of him m the Way of delegation visits Ond appeals for the governor. Further Lindsay made it Clear he considered a Rockefeller Nomina Tion essential for the party s future although Nixon was con voted Lindsay would take the vice presidential nomination if offered Mutual friends assured him of that he says he ruled it out for the following reasons it would have required a Tricky change of address for one of them to avoid the constitutional Barrier against a state s electors voting for two men from that state. Southerners were dead set against the mayor because of his liberalism and progressive civil rights positions violating the Nixon Unity aim. North american newspaper Alliance if i can just get in close i la talk him to death the clinches i fighting itself does t i worry me it s this terrible fear of winning i try me i got a wicked right to the shins politicians playing War games again under careful cultivation by the leaders of both major Par ties a new Vietnam myth is gaining accept Ance in the . Clayton � is fhe my that we Are making rapid Progress toward turning the main Fritchey Burden of the War Over to the armed forces of South Vietnam to be followed soon after by the withdrawal of american forces. This questionable but lulling line of thought is no alternative to a negotiated peace although it won much favourable attention at the Republican convention under the soothing Label of de american zing the War. It is Al so the Johnson administration s favorite new pacifier and we will hear More of it this week when the democratic platform committee begins its hearings in Washington and Chicago. Despite the government s propaganda about the rejuvenation of Arvn army of the Republic of Vietnam no disinterested observer believes it is capable of fighting the War on its own now or in the foreseeable future. Arvn has Baen enlarged and is being better equipped but it is still afflicted by corruption in difference and Many desertions. It is no match for the enemy. The politicians know this of course but they also know that millions of peace hungry americans would like to see the War turned Back to South Vietnam. Shortly before the gop Conven Tion the Gallup poll asked the following question suppose that in the coming presidential Campaign one candidate said that we should turn Over More of the fighting in Viet Nam to the South vietnamese and that As of next Jan. 1 the . Should withdraw some of our troops. Other things being equal would you vote for or against this candidate sixty six per cent said they would vote for and Only 18 per cent were against so it is easy to understand Why the major parties Are paying lip service to the idea even though neither has a reliable plan for carrying it out. Sen. Eugene Mccarthy and sen. George Mcgovern May succeed in forcing the democratic platform committee to face up to reality this week but it won t be easy. Although the administration has hedged its statements with escape clauses it has encouraged the Public to believe that the South Vietnam army is successfully being groomed to take Over the Brunt of the fighting. Moreover president Thieu has gone so far As to say that some . Forces could be phased out by the end of this year. After a recent Vietnam inspection trip defense Secretary Clark Clifford was More cautious than that but he was lyrical about Thieu s army. The 1st Arvn division he said is compar Able in effectiveness and fight ing Quality to any division in the .  if Only this were so. From a . Point of View it would be Ideal for Arvn to take Over the War. The drawback lies not in the idea but in the notion that America can confidently look Forward to it happening. It is this kind of Wishful thinking that the opinion expressed in tha column Sand cartoon on Thi Page represent Troio of tha authors and Are in no Wayt a considered to representing tha views of tha  and Stripe itself or of the United Sut deprives the Paris peace talks of any real urgency. Why Stop the bombing and make other con Cessions to obtain peace if we can unload the fighting on Arvn it is an old pipe dream. Even Back in 1954, Eisenhower was talking about the need for the South vietnamese not Ameri cans to do the fighting. A few weeks before his death John f. Kennedy was saying the same thing. In 1964 it was Johnson s chief Campaign theme. This year Nixon Rockefeller and even Robert f. Kennedy took it up. Let s help them fight the War said Nixon and not fight it for  the Campaign Ora tory in 1968 resembles 1952, when there was also much talk of de american zing the Kore an War. In Korea said president Eisenhower we must make cer Tain that koreans can be pre pared to defend their own Fronef lines. If there must be a War there let it be asians against  but in the end we got out of the War not by turning it Over to the koreans but by peace negotiations. 1c Tiai