Mccarthy Here For Talk; Calls War Unjustified

JJV '"il l f Sen. Eugene J. MtfCarthy, DMinn., on the eve of an appearance in Ann Arbor tonight, has blamed the U.S. dilemma in Vietnam on a combination of the treaty-signing zeal of the late John Foster Dulles and a military establishment willing to "program" anything. McCarthy, a critic of President Johnson's Vietnam policies, told 1,500 persons at Macalester College Thursday night that continuation of the war "is no longer justified" on a moral basis. McCarthy is to sample antiJohnson sentiment at the dinner tonight. McCarthy said earlier this week that he might decide to enter four or five presidential preference primaries as an opponent of President Johnson. He would do this, the senator added, in hopes of forcing the Johnson administration to change its Vietnam policy. He was due at Detroit Metropolitan Airport in the afternoon, when a rally was to be held. A 7 p.m. rally on the Diagonal of the University central campus was planned to precede his Second Congressional District dinner speech at the Michigan Union. , Many of the airport rally ticipants will be members of the newly formed Michigan Conference of Concerned Democrats who have been waging a campaign against the President's Vietnam policies. The organization has asked Democrats opposed to Presideni Johnson's handling of the war to submit a $1 donation for a newspaper advertisement which would state the group's case in "an open letter to Presideni Johnson and the Democratie party." Petitions also are being circulated so the names of antiJohnson Democrats can be prirted a 1 o n g with the advertisement. The open letter includes a flea to the President for a halt ir the "bombing and an end to esealation." "We want out of the var in Vietnam," the letter declsres. He said a Vietnam unted under communism should not be a major worry. America, McCarthy iaid, has lost a clear relationshio between its power and its objectives. "The flag has folbwed military forces rather ttmn the traditional order," he said. ■■■ A student asked him wliat b would do if he were 22 and facei a military draft cali. McCarthy said it would b "difficult" if a 22-year-old lij no one was trying to end th Vietnam war. "I think it's in order for you to demónstrate and complain and make speeches," McCarthy said, "All the way to the induction center." He added that he feil there should be room in the draft law for those who object to war on nonreligious grounds. In Vietnam, McCarthy charged, the Johnson administration and its military chiefs have escalated their objectives. This has reached the point, he said, where invasión of North Vietnam is a possibility. McCarthy blamed the treaty-signing penchant of Dulles, secretary of state during the Eisenhower administration, for the start of a trend to commit the United States to a policeman role for the entire wo'ld. Duües, McCarthy said, "accepted a kind of general méral responsibility for the entire world." "The Pentagon can 'program' anything," he said. "They'd program an invasión of Moscow if you asked them. Someone would take another look at that, but we don't take a look at the smaller things." What happens. McCarthy said, is that the military "program" oecomes the purpose. The military feels it can handle any project assigned to it and wül ive civilian leaders an optim:stic report. This happened in the Bay of Pigs incident, McCarthy imDlied, where the plan was to es;ablish a beachhead, then move in a friendly government to "invite" the United States to intervene.