Salvador E. Luria
48 Peacock Faam Road
Lexington, Massachusetts
02173

February 8, 1968

The Editor, The Washington Post
Washington, D. C.

To the Editor:

With the current bombings of the very people we are supposed to
protect, American action in Vietnam has passed all bounds of
decency. As a European Jew, who escaped Nazi: extermination and
found in thas country a haven and a new fatherladd, I proclaim
myself brother of the tortured victims of our mass bombings in
Vietnam. The people of Saigon and Hue are today's counterparts
of the fighters of Warsaw's ghetto and the cremated of Dachau.

History, if not their conscience or the courts of man, will deal
with Lyndon Johnson, Dean Rusk, and their generals as it did with
Adolf Hitler, Hermann Goering, and their henchmen. But it will
deal more harshly with us Americans if, blessed with the freedom
to speak ap and to assemble which Germans did not have, we do not
raise our voices in solemn protest to end the inhuman slaughter
perpetrated in our name,

Salvador E. Luria, M. D.

The writer is Sedgwick Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, member of the National Academy of Sciences,
the American Philosophical Society, and the American Adademy of Arts
and Sciences, and is currently president of the American Society for
Microbiology.