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fAGC EIGHT A Mansfield, 0., News Journal Sunday, April 21, 1066 Monks Hewed 'To 'Communist Line Buddhists Exploit In Name Of Democracy ft By BRIG. GEN. S. L. A.

MARSHALL To stage elections, it will be necessary virtually to call i) The time must come when there will be mutually porting progress along both avenues of advance. But it will not be prior to the hour when military operations have topped the hill and are on the high road to success. A trend toward political stabilization may only develop When the average Vietnamese adult sees some real prospect of better times, through an improvement of local security and what Still, it was diabolically clever humbug. It sounds holy, even to unthinking Americans, since our own statesmen put the words in their mouths: "The political solution must come first." This is uttered in such a contest as to imply that there can be no advance through battlefield success until here is a decisive degree of political stabilization through civic action. off all movement and confine all military to the task of guarding the apparatus.

Then, even if the Viet Cong cooperate by stacking arms during the exercise, only a minority of the population will be polled. When the Buddhists moved In to exploit in the name of democracy, the unrest in the north caused by the dismissal of Gen. Thi, that was sheer hypocrisy and humbug, perpetrated under the cloak of religion. he gains through his toil. After 20 years of war, could be no other way Military Affaire Analyst The main wheels of the administration In Washington, including military types who should know better, have continued to trumpet that the political solution in Viet Nam must precede military success.

It Is part of our folklore that a return to free elections and an acceptance of the democratic process will purge any thicket or jungle of violence and subversion. The danger of such an idea is that it can be used by any power-hungry crowd elsewhere to undermine the direct interests of the United Stales. That is precisely what the Buddhist bonzes are doing in South Viet Nam. They have taken over part of the official line of the United States and are using it to shake down their own government and sabotage the war effort. Thus, our official voice is in no position to utter a word in even mild reproof.

ALWAYS FIRST QUALITY Elections Not Possible There is no reason to doubt that Thick Tri Quang and other members of the Buddhist political conspiracy know what they are doing and understand what they are asking the impossible. These are quite clever men possessed of great sincerity, as are all power-seekers who determine to have their way through the heavens fall. Is it within reason to believe that the principle of free election is sacred to Tri Quang and his fellow mongs? Not more so than is the thought that they are so remote from the world and from the conditions of their war-torn country as not to see that what they demand is wholly beyond the power of government to deliver. Yet protected as they are by their religious robes, they are safe to sound an empty shibboleth with the insidious object of thwarting any progress toward free government. We hear it said over and again that all efforts to tie Tri Quang to the Communist Party have proved vain.

It's irrelevant. Ever since General "Iron Mike" O'Daniel headed the U. S. Military Assistance Mission in Saigon, it has been known that the monasteries had been penetrated and that a large segment of the Buddhist priesthood hewed to the communist line. So the dreary farce will be played out.

If Premier Nguyen Cao Ky is tossed out to appease the Buddhists, and somehow the military junta is saved in deference to wishes in Washington, that will be but one more round in a fight-to-the-finish contest. The Buddhists will be as loath to cooperate with anyone in Saigon as Americans are reluctant to see that in the prevailing situation none but a military government is fit to cope with the problems. In a guerrilla-ridden country, where every town and hamlet, if not semi-engaged is at least immediately threatened, there cannnot be meaningful free elections. Boys' Batman or AK" it Robin polo shirt Boys' Batman or I yV 1 lji Robin sw 1 ,98 miKHii If I I SWS II IJTt I I II Judges Named For May Art Show Charles F. Gunther, supervisor of education in the School of Design of The Toledo Museum of Art, and Selden Washington, assistant curator and registrar of the museum, will be judges for the Mansfield Fine Arts Guild's forthcoming May Show of works by Mansfield and area artists.

Gunther, graduate of Williams College, Williamstown, where he majored in Art History, received his masters degree in Painting and Graphics from the University of Colorado, Boulder, Colo. He has been a juror for the following shows: First National Bank Downtown Toledo Exhibit, High School section and Art Interest Scholarships since 1959; Northwestern Ohio Regional Scholastic Art Awards, 1965 and 1966; 8th Mid-West Biennial, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, in 1964; and Baycrafter fourth annual Juried Art Show in 1965. Gunther has exhibited in Bay Printmakers Society, Oakland, Mulvane Art Center Topeka, Society of Washington Printmakers, Ohio Printmakers, Oklahoma Print-makers Society, National Black and White Print Exhibition, Honorable Mention in Ball State Art Gallery. His work is also included in the collection of Dallas Museum of Fine Arts and included in the Toledo Annual Artists Exhibitions since 1958. Selden Washington, a native '-S'i! iTrwC M(m ldAWh LW Flicker rings Bcmanwnst I I I Batman eardfi Jf 1 1 flashlight .88 AtjM WF 1 Mil I I BaHeiy-powered SELDEN WASinNGTON jy I VJU LJ Wallet.

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