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Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan of Atlanta has signed a petition
“Negotiation Now!” asking the United States to end the bombing of
North Vietnam and take steps toward a truce.
Archbishop Hallinan was the third American Roman Catholic prelate
to sign the petition. Earlier, Bishop Victor J. Reed of Oklahoma City-Tulsa and
Auxiliary Bishop John J. Dougherty of Newark, president of Seton Hall
University, agreed to be listed among the drive’s sponsors.
The petition has three major points:
- It seeks support of a call by U Thant to bring about
negotiations among all parties to the conflict, leading to a political
settlement of the war.
- It asks the United States to take the first step and end
bombing of North Vietnam without conditions. It asks the U.S. government to
take further initiatives leading to a standstill truce.
- It asks South Vietnam to respect and join in these steps.
Among other sponsors of the statement are Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr., theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, Episcopal Bishop George Barrett of Rochester
N.Y., William L. Shirer, author of “The Rise and Fall of the Third
Reich,” and Norman Cousins, editor of Saturday Review. |
