AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR AID TO KATANGA FREEDOM FIGHTERS SUITE 909 79 MADISON AVE. NEW YORK 16. N. Y. MURRAY HILL 5-0190 CHAIRMAN Dr. Max Yergan EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Dear Friend: L. Brent Bozell Wm. F. Buckley, Jr. James Burnham Marvin Liebman Eugene Lyons The distinguished Americans listed on this letterhead have joined with me Frank S. Meyer William A. Rusher to organize the American Committee For Aid To Katanga Freedom Fighters and George S. Schuyler to sponsor this emergency appeal for your immediate help. COUNSEL C. Dickerman Williams SPONSORS Under President Moise Tshombe, Katanga has gone on record as vigorously (Partial List) opposing any Communist influence in its affairs and has committed itself to the Holmes Alexander Dr. Ruth Alexander United States and the West. What has been the result of this policy? The Tom Anderson C. D. Batchelor United Nations is now exerting every military force at its command to force Dr. Phillip Bard Prof. Anthony T. Bouscaren Katanga to remain part of the Central Congolese Government, a government Hon. Spruille Braden Gen. Lewis H. Brereton which has proven its incapacity to govern and one that has shown its inability Roy M. Brewer Miss Taylor Caldwell to prevent Communist infiltration. Most of the U.N. military operation against John Chamberlain Richard Cowan Katanga is paid for by the United States. United States planes are carrying men John Crichton Prof. Ley E. Dobriansky and materiel which are used to strafe and bomb the people of Katanga. John Dos Passos Sen. James O. Eastland Max Eastman Hon. Charles Edison As Americans - whose taxes are being used to slaughter anti-Communist Julius Epstein M. Stanton Evans Katangese we deplore this action of our Government. Further, we are aghast Lawrence Fertig at the illegal and immoral action of the U.N. in Katanga and are fearful of the John M. Fisher Prof. William Fleming dangerous precedent now being set which, in effect, gives U.N. military forces Clifford Forster Devin A. Garrity carte blanche to interfere in the internal affairs of any nation in the world. Prof. Mark Graubard Prof. Ernest van den Haag Prof. Russell Kirk Prof. Willmoore Kendall We enclose a copy of our statement and appeal which appeared in The New Prof. Jerzy Hauptmann Earl T. Holsapple York Times on Thursday, December 14th. Also enclosed is a return envelope which Mrs. Alfred Kohlberg Herbert V. Kohler we hope you will use at your earliest convenience to send your maximum contribu- Prof. Anthony Kubek Victor Lasky tion. Your contribution - coupled with what we hope will be the generous response Honorable J. Bracken Lee William Loeb of other Americans - will be utilized immediately to provide the Katanga Freedom Dr. Charles W. Lowry Arthur G. McDowell Fighters with whatever help they may need and we are able to give them. We Prof. William M. McGovern Reverend Carl Mclntire have already established liaison with existing agencies in Katanga for distribution Martin B. McKneally Clarence E. Manion of relief and other supplies. F. R. Marlier J. B. Matthews Prof. Ruth S. Maynard Adolph Menjou This is an emergency! We call on all Americans to take their stand against E. Victor Millione Admiral Ben Moreell the arrogant and dangerous U.N. military action in Katanga by helping the people Prof. Thomas Molnar Hon. Robert Morris at whom this military action is directed. By doing so, we may avoid a repetition Prof. Gerhart Niemeyer Prof. Ben Edwin Perry of the tragic defeat suffered by the Hungarian people just five years ago when Cmdr. Frederick G. Reinicke Prof. David N. Rowe they rose against Communist aggression. Morrie Ryskind Reno H. Sales Henry Salvatori Prof. O. Glenn Saxon Sincerely yours, Robert M. Schuchman Miss Phillipa Schuyler Prof. Hans F. Sennholz Stephen C. Shadegg Ralph de Toledano May George Richard A. Viguerie Prof. Eliseo Vivas Max Yergan Prof. Walter H. Voskuil Prof. Richard M. Weaver Chairman General A. C. Wedemeyer General William H. Wilbur Prof. Karl A. Wittfogel