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RETURNED VOLUNTEERS QUESTION THE PEACE CORPS When Peace Corps recruiters came to the Columbia campus last March, members of the Committee of Returned Volunteers at Columbia engaged them in a discussion which raised these critical questions about the Peace Corps: Peace Corps and the Draft After a year-long decline, applications to the Peace Corps have soared following the recent draft rulings. The whole "volunteer" status of the Corps can be questioned in the light of Selective Service directives for "channelling". No one would argue that it is better to be a soldier than a volunteer, but how distinct are those roles under present circumstances ? Free Speech in the Peace Corps In more than a few instances volunteers have been threatened with termination for engaging in the mildest forms of dissent. In the Philippines some were prevented from calling a meeting of Volunteers concerned about the Vietnam war, and an attempt to mimeograph copies of the CRV position paper on Vietnam was thwarted when the Peace Corps director ripped up the stencils. Would you give up your rights as citizens when you Join the Peace Corps? Peace Corps and the State Department When 92 Peace Corps Volunteers in Chile signed a Negotiations Now statement, they were called into the embassy and told by the ambassador that their act was being viewed with concern by the state department. They were instructed to stop circulating the statement and to remove their names or face termination. This concern of the state department is not confined to such incidents. The state department reviews and passes on every Peace Corps project. Is the Peace Corps a vehicle for genuine change or a tool for implementing the peace of the status quo? The Role of the Peace Corps in United States Foreign Policy El Tiempo, a conservative newspaper in Bogota, Columbia, referred to the Peace Corps as "Marines with velvet gloves." This is not a new assertion, but the fact that it now comes from less than radical sources indicates that the people of the third world see the real face of America in Vietnam and the Dominican Republic. The avowed goals of the Peace Corps are precisely the types of change characteristically repressed by local elites, often with whatever help is necessary from -he United States. The Peace Corps itself is often a part of this support. Is it just coincidental that the Peace Corps in the last two years has left Guinea, Gabon, and Pakistan, but gone into South Korea and the strategic trust territory of Micronesia? The Attitude of the Poace Corps Peace Corps Director Jack Vaughn says of the peace movement against the Vietnam War: "Having consigned more of my life to this cause (peace), I knov, enough about the movement for peace—real peace—to say forget that approach." Vaughn, who .,,-,
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Title | Returned volunteers question the Peace Corps |
Place of publication | New York, New York |
Publisher | Committee of Returned Volunteers |
Publication date | 1967 |
Language | English |
Country | United States |
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Publisher-Electronic | Wisconsin Historical Society |
Publication Date-Electronic | 2016 |
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Owner | Brünn, Harris Watts Collection - Ephemera Soldiers Movements, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam |
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Publisher-Electronic | Wisconsin Historical Society |
Publication Date-Electronic | 2016 |
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Full text | RETURNED VOLUNTEERS QUESTION THE PEACE CORPS When Peace Corps recruiters came to the Columbia campus last March, members of the Committee of Returned Volunteers at Columbia engaged them in a discussion which raised these critical questions about the Peace Corps: Peace Corps and the Draft After a year-long decline, applications to the Peace Corps have soared following the recent draft rulings. The whole "volunteer" status of the Corps can be questioned in the light of Selective Service directives for "channelling". No one would argue that it is better to be a soldier than a volunteer, but how distinct are those roles under present circumstances ? Free Speech in the Peace Corps In more than a few instances volunteers have been threatened with termination for engaging in the mildest forms of dissent. In the Philippines some were prevented from calling a meeting of Volunteers concerned about the Vietnam war, and an attempt to mimeograph copies of the CRV position paper on Vietnam was thwarted when the Peace Corps director ripped up the stencils. Would you give up your rights as citizens when you Join the Peace Corps? Peace Corps and the State Department When 92 Peace Corps Volunteers in Chile signed a Negotiations Now statement, they were called into the embassy and told by the ambassador that their act was being viewed with concern by the state department. They were instructed to stop circulating the statement and to remove their names or face termination. This concern of the state department is not confined to such incidents. The state department reviews and passes on every Peace Corps project. Is the Peace Corps a vehicle for genuine change or a tool for implementing the peace of the status quo? The Role of the Peace Corps in United States Foreign Policy El Tiempo, a conservative newspaper in Bogota, Columbia, referred to the Peace Corps as "Marines with velvet gloves." This is not a new assertion, but the fact that it now comes from less than radical sources indicates that the people of the third world see the real face of America in Vietnam and the Dominican Republic. The avowed goals of the Peace Corps are precisely the types of change characteristically repressed by local elites, often with whatever help is necessary from -he United States. The Peace Corps itself is often a part of this support. Is it just coincidental that the Peace Corps in the last two years has left Guinea, Gabon, and Pakistan, but gone into South Korea and the strategic trust territory of Micronesia? The Attitude of the Poace Corps Peace Corps Director Jack Vaughn says of the peace movement against the Vietnam War: "Having consigned more of my life to this cause (peace), I knov, enough about the movement for peace—real peace—to say forget that approach." Vaughn, who .,,-, |
Type | Text |
Digital identifier | giEphemera351001 |