The statement follows: BIsHoPs STATEMENT ON VIETNAM (Adopted by the Council of Bishops of the Methodist Church and the Board of Bishops of the Evangelical United Brethren Church. November 16. 1967) We commend the President of the United States of America for continuing to call for negotiations in the Vietnam war and for his repeatedly expressed offers to go anywhere. anytime. to make such talks possible. We are appalled by the suffering as we think of more than two million refugees in a land of only fourteen million people. the tens of thousands of wounded and disabled in a land with only primitive facilities to provide for their care. and of sorrow and heartbreak in the ever larger number of homes. We are concerned about the effect of the Vietnam war in worsening the international situation. The survival of civilization depends on the establishment of a climate of acceptance and cooperation among world powers.
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