OW the Americans are gassing the people of Vietnam and bombing
.them at random, whether they are combatants or not. We find ourselves at a loss for words. Whag a savage, filthy parody of American liberalism the Johnson administration has become! The very sight of this empty man, mouthing the words of the martyrs of Selma, “We shall overcome”, while, in open and contemptuous cynicism, he marshals all the horrifying, devilish apparatus of modern scientific massacre against the poor peasants of Vietnam, is vile, sickening, un-nerving. No human being should be reduced to the level of a Johnson, which marks out a new depth in witless viciousness. That the American people should find themselves compelled to “choose” his leadership is their crying and disgraceful misfortune. The irony of this choice is not muted by the fact that it was made precisely to avoid the very policies of Goldwater which Johnson has now made his own. Whether the war escalates further or not, the moral crisis of the USA is at its zenith. Its people will awaken from their nightmare the sooner if we here in Britain will only cut loose from its hegemony. Labour must make this break. To walk at the heels of this carnivorous, pathetic creature is no longer simply dangerous. It is demeaning beyond contempt.