{"id":21106,"date":"2016-11-07T19:35:39","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T03:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpmu.library.oregonstate.edu\/osu_archives\/?p=21106"},"modified":"2016-11-07T19:35:39","modified_gmt":"2016-11-08T03:35:39","slug":"whats-new-on-the-pauling-blog-pauling-and-vietnam-father-pires-appeal-for-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/scarc\/2016\/11\/07\/whats-new-on-the-pauling-blog-pauling-and-vietnam-father-pires-appeal-for-humanity\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s new on the Pauling blog? Pauling and Vietnam: Father Pire\u2019s Appeal for Humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_21109\" style=\"width: 335px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/scarc\/2016\/11\/07\/whats-new-on-the-pauling-blog-pauling-and-vietnam-father-pires-appeal-for-humanity\/europe-dominique-pire1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21109\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21109\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21109\" src=\"http:\/\/wpmu.library.oregonstate.edu\/osu_archives\/files\/2016\/11\/europe-dominique-pire1.jpg\" alt=\"Father Georges Dominique Pire with a map and model of refugee villages in Europe.\" width=\"325\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3292\/files\/2016\/11\/europe-dominique-pire1.jpg 325w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3292\/files\/2016\/11\/europe-dominique-pire1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3292\/files\/2016\/11\/europe-dominique-pire1-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-21109\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Father Georges Dominique Pire with a map and model of refugee villages in Europe.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>\u201cOur present object is not to apportion blame among the groups of combatants. The one imperative is that this crime against all that is civilized in the family of man shall cease.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>-\u201cAn Appeal by Recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize,\u201d 1965<\/p>\n<p>On the 27<sup>th<\/sup> of April, 1965, Father Georges Dominique Pire wrote a letter to all of his fellow Nobel Peace Prize recipients from Aberdeen, Scotland. The letter intended to rally this group in opposition to the Vietnam War.\u00a0At the time, public opinion in the United States overwhelmingly supported the recent deployment of troops to Vietnam, as ordered\u00a0by President Lyndon\u00a0<span class=\"skimlinks-unlinked\">Johnson.This<\/span>\u00a0commitment would be increased by December, bringing the total number of U.S. military personnel in Vietnam to nearly 200,000.<\/p>\n<p>Linus Pauling, who had\u00a0been awarded the Peace Prize in December\u00a01963 for his work ushering in a partial\u00a0nuclear test ban treaty, read Pire\u2019s letter with a heavy heart. Pauling\u00a0had received notification of his award just as President John F. Kennedy began to increase American involvement in Southeast Asia, and only a month later the President was\u00a0assassinated. This series of events paved the way for a\u00a0new Commander in Chief, Lyndon Johnson, to further expand the\u00a0American presence in the region.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/paulingblog.wordpress.com\/2016\/11\/02\/pauling-and-vietnam-father-pires-appeal-for-humanity\/\">Read part 1 of 7 no the Pauling blog.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOur present object is not to apportion blame among the groups of combatants. The one imperative is that this crime against all that is civilized in the family of man shall cease.\u201d -\u201cAn Appeal by Recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize,\u201d 1965 On the 27th of April, 1965, Father Georges Dominique Pire wrote a letter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1451,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"What's new on the Pauling blog? 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