Vietnam. a beautiful green paradise. is being stripped of vegetation and crops. More than a million and a half acres have already been ruined. Two million Vietnamese peasants have been driven from their hamletsmany forced into refugee camps. Defense Department officials now propose to use new and more powerful chemicals to increase the total of ruined. spoiled land to a catastrophic extent. We are not only destroying the meager food supply of Vietnamese civilians. but by our dastardly defoliation of the countryside of a people President Johnson claims we are seeking to free. we are also leaving the earth sterile for future generations. Unfortunately. old men. women. and children trying to stay alive are being hurled closer to starvation or herded like animals into American refugee camps. We now know that not even our awesome weaponry can impose on a suffering silent people a colonial government they do not want and will never again suffer to take hold. We know. or should know. that steadily deepening involvement in a civil war in Vietnam will not deter social revolution elsewhere. nor contain Communist China.