Room 56-423 Tel. 617/253-4707

October 18, 1973

To the Editor

The Boston Globe

135 Wm. T. Morrissey Boulevard
Boston, Massachusetts 02125

Dear Sir:

I write both as the recipient of a Nobel Prize (which I felt was
undeserved) and as a consistent opponent of the American inter-
vention in Indochina.

Your editorial (October 17) on the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to
Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho correctly points out the shakiness
of the peace these two men are supposed to have brought about and
the doubtfulness of their contribution.

Anti-war Americans like myself are also outraged that any leading
member of the Administrations that initiated and for 9 years waged
the criminal, illegal Indochina war, be they Johnson or Nixon
people, should be honored in the name of peace.

Whatever the Norwegian Nobel Committee may have meant by thétr
selection, it will be nothing less than an insult to the memory
“and the bereaved families of those thousands of Americans and
Indochinese whose lives were sacrificed in a futile exercise of
imperial arrogance.

S. E. Luria