European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 07, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes surely Tho Rwm a beef to handle the Young protesters and demonstrators than to on hit Chicago Polico used. No on can doubt that Tho Tough loaders of the National Mobell Talon comm life want a a confrontation on nomination night or that the police violence i red the purposes of la i men admirably looking Back with Hindsight it was a mistake to up them from marching of the Amphitheater where thy could have in stopped without making a Sham Bles of a str to Comer in the heart of the City. It was a mistake to put the Burden of Clearing the Street on an overburdened Polico Force that has been tens for weeks and psychologically unprepared for what they had to do. It would have been better to use the bet Ter trained soldiers and National guard As the Prim Force for keeping civic order and int Hung a peaceful demonstration and re riots aided Case against system a a let 0f a Miller �904 do a of fit the sofa to few a. A Verv minor it a Max Urner police for smaller Dos tur Bancel. If the police had to be used As Tho Prim Force they could have limited them Elve to making arrests instead of clubbing their targets with an indiscriminate Fervour. The obvious result of the meth ods used hat been to increase the polarizing of the opposing groups within the democratic party to Sharpen the already Sharp Gap Between the generations and to hand Over to the untended mercies of the far left groups Art array of Young people who have been radicalized by the whole experience. Mayor Richard Daley and his police com missioner could t have done this More effectively if they had meant to. The leaders of the far left groups have been handed two beautifully effective slogans with which to win Over the Young people. One is the raw Deal which they insist the convention gave the peace forces. The other is Hie cry of police both of them add up to a Case Agar tsp the that is Why Dave Dellinger one of Hie Heads of the National mobilization committee claimed that his group had won a tragic Victory but it is a Victory. For with these slogans the far left can make the same kind of a peal to America s youth that the far left made in Paris during the riotous nights at the University barricades in May. What i wit nested in Chicago is very much scenario i saw when i was in Paris. Most of the youngsters in the demonstrations were not revolutionaries butt decent idealistic kids with a passion for peace in their heart. But a number of those who planned and organized the demonstrations and used the youngsters for their Pur poses Are Tough professional revolutionaries who Welcome the chaos because it is their Only Way of Radical izing the Young the poor the estranged. It does t take Many such Tough and hardened men to control the larger movement any where from 2 to 5 per cent will without a pork Wowe Ottoy Wolf of Homo ineffectual. With those excesses they have largely succeeded loth sides the revolutionaries and the police planned for massive violence and both predicted it and because they did it came. It is a Case again of the self fulfilling prophecy. I had another experience in Chicago which mad me conscious of the problem of social order and the police. Several of us from the Media including Hugh Hefner and Jules Pfeiffer walked Down Wells Avenue around 1 . To see what was happening. We got tangled in a group of spectators and stragglers from an earlier hippie demonstration were chased Down a Side Street by a police car threat ened by a Small Phalanx of guns held by cops who jumped out of the car and barely Man aged to get away without Seri Ous trouble except for an injury to Hefner by a police club. Compared to what happened to at least 30 newsmen and photographers during the week has a very minor event. We or Ferod no Woody Heads As they Ruhl Syf we did learn with an immediacy we had not experienced before something about the rage of the police in such a situation and the helplessness of Ordinary americans who Are Luckiest enough to encounter them when they Are cleaning up some area. At i reviewed the to diet of the bloody Melee at Hie Hilton with its display of Force beyond what was necessary i got a Shock of recognition that went Back to our own experience. In the Case of the National mobilization committee encounter there was something added a rage on both sides a Polar izing rage which emitters both Young militants and police. We had better find another Way More temperate More humanist or we shall find the dream of social peace turned into a Nightmare of civil conflict that can Only play into the hands of Hie extremes on the left and the right. 1968. Lot Angeles Telmet Wallace s Campaign turning anti negro what Are you hanging around for Nosey cant you see i m Busy to the regret of All thought Ful citizens southerners or North Erners the Campaign of George c. Wallace of Alabama hat taken a definite anti negro turn. The race Angle hoi come out from under the table. It hat moved from the Back Row to the front. The Pep Pery candidate who used to deny that he was a racist has Roy Wilkins declared openly his intention if elected to impose racial Segre gation legally. He couples this with a pledge to return Hie handling of racial matters to local authority we Luln the states. As a clincher or. Wallace of course would impose Law and order11 on the negroes that is through the us of police meth ods including troops with bullets in the magazines of their guns and bayonets at Hie muzzle ends. It is depressing to find this kind of Campaign for Tho highest office in the land resting upon parochial and volatile racial feelings or. Wallace is doing no favor to much of the Southern Whit population by using this tactic it i understandable that White southerners with color preference color contempt and Van color hatred bred into their ones and into every facet of a sir lives should have difficulty in shedding the thinking of their forbears. But they Are trying Nard and increasing numbers Are acc Eedeng even if they Don t vow know where the new think "8 will Eod ih0m. The last primary election in jul l publicized Nigger Angle we there All right but was wet out of headlines at the Wii Cago democratic convention 32 htorln8� a Wedon � committee that involved a a Pri Klod with hini99er" approach the Case for Litaud i we pm we in the impeccable Ian it might find in a preme court argument on say offshore Oil. Now comes Wallace trying to turn Back the clock. He wants to Force the Black Genie Back into Hie bottle. He wants Freedom to mean once More what his kind of Whit folks in their fiefdoms Here and there say it Means. He wants no interference from either Black people or from the Federal government. Let the supreme court keep As quiet As it did in 1903. Let Congress fiddle with tariffs or agriculture or some thing. Leave the question of negro citizenship in the United states and in the several states to the several states. C Router and Tribune Syndicate by Ira c. Eaker some lessons from Czechoslovakia the fog of War has lifted Over Czechoslovakia sufficiently and the dust of invasion has settled enough so that the most astigmatic can see the battered bloody Corpse of Freedom lying in the streets of Prague. There Are now some questions which can be asked some pertinent observations which can be made and perhaps some lessons for our citizens and our leaders. How could the men in the Kremlin have dared to commit this brutal crime against inter National Law and human Justice they were realists. They knew that world opinion Seldom Suc Cors the weak and never deters the Strong. They teamed that at the time of the rape of Hungary. Tho user had succeeded in Tho destruction of nato with Tho help of that gang Boss of the nato wrecking Crew president Charles do Saulle and no longer feared any reprisal from that Quarter. Kremlin leaders had watched Hie . Operations in Vietnam where to foiled to take decisive Steps for fear of what Russia or red China might do. They saw to Chi Minh outwit us at Paris. They exulted As our Senate doves castigated our president for responding to the Call for help from the South vietnamese. Our spineless response to the Pueblo piracy removed any worry about . Aid to Czechoslovakia. The reds divined again correctly that the United nations had neither the will nor the Power to punish or halt their aggression. Why did they consider it Nec Essary to punish the czech communists for their deviation the reach for Freedom in Czechoslovakia if allowed to persist might incite the poles and East germans to attempt similar experiments. It could even spread to Russia and Lead to further unrest there. The reds being prac tical always know that it is much easier to extinguish a fire in its Early stages. The opinions a pre i 1968, general feature corp
