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Show WORLD AFFAIRS For the United States, the past year has been one of internal The nation is more divided over the war in Vietnam than at crisis. The contention between any other time since the Spanish American War. the races is approaching something like rebellion in many of our Amer ican cities. Civil disobedience is widely practiced by young anti-war demonstrators in the universities, and their actons have been condoned and even encouraged by influential leaders. President Johnson religious freely into any of the great cities ing picketed by his anti-war critics. cannot go "This is of the nation without be" day," Secretary of Health Education and Welfare John W. said, "of dissent and divisiveness. Everyone speaks with un bridled anger in .behaLf of his point of view or his party or his people. More and more hostility and venom are the hallmarks of any conver sa td.on on the affairs of the nation. There used to be only a few chronically in our national life. angry people Today, all seem caught up in mutual and rich and poor, conservative and liberal, white, recriminations--Negro dove and hawk, Democrat and Republican, labor and management, North and South, young and old." a Gardner What produced this mood of self-questioning and self-doubt? Accord ing to James B. Reston, "The crisis is basically psychological, and while there is a general sense of uneasiness, and even anxiety over the war and the race riots, the majority of people--even the majority of the Univer sity students went along, about as in other year-s doing their jobs and staying apart from the agitation. In this sense, the turmoil was primar ily the work of the minority ·of the people in the. political parties, the radical and activist Negro organizations, the press and the churches._--in short that very minority of articulate people who usually bring about political change in most nations." , And' during all this--what have the Business and Professional Women been doing? Certainly we have been trying to deal constructively and in telligently with these great questions of life. Through our wonderful programs we have dealth with peace and order, the relationship of the individual to the state, technology and philoso phy, the education of the individual to the extent of his capacities, the problem of Leader-shd p ; and the priorori ties of life and politics. . And how have we dealt with these continue to deal with them? great questions? And how can we detailed study of our United foreign policy. During Foreign Policy Week we have had speakers We have from the State Department visit high schools and adult groups. We have made discussed and studied world trade in our every day lives. Many of States our clubs have undertaken a |
