Servicemen Refuse to Fight in Viennam

from an American reader More American soldiers have refused to be sent to Vietnam, according to an article in the November 6th edition of the National Guardian. 19-year-old Jack Gorman threw his sea bag into the ocean from a Vietnam=bound U.S. vessel, in protest against being sent to Vietnam. Charged by the military authorities as "refusing to report", he was sentenced to five months! imprisonment and discharged. Michael Yankee, a youth of 20, was charged with "disobeying and order" and "being absent without leave", because he refused to go to Vietnam to fight. He was sentenced to three months* hard labour and discharged. Opposing the U.S. war of aggression in Vietnam, Larry Bobbitt, 18, refused to wear a navy uniform. Since March, he has been courtmartialled seven times for “refusing to report". He was scheduled for sentencing in Honolulu for imprisonment. Yankee and Bobbitt declared that other personnel in their units similarly cbjected to fighting in Vietnam, ~~ 20-year~old soldier Michael L. Fram openly expressed his sympathy with the activities of the "Vietnam Day Committee" against U.S. aggression in Vietname Early this month, when his unit arrived in Oakland, California, a military departure point for Vietnam, -he was detained in the country because the military authorities were afraid he would affect the morale of the other troops. A military spokesman sid that Fram's philosophy conflicted "with the very nature of the operation" conducted by the U.S. soldiers in Vietname It is to be hoped that British socialists will support this movement which is so couragesvs. Messages of support, protests to the American Embassy, the mere spreading of information about these heroes will all help. However readers of the Week can best give moral aid to ‘pot comrades by making it absolutely clear that the Wilson Government does/répresent British socialism on Vietnam, N.B. Messages should go to: WCEWV, PO Box 19249, Washington, D.C. 20036.