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FREEDOMWAYS     FIRST QUARTER 1968

And that is why Du Bois's sharing with us his innermost thoughts at every step of the way along his journey into light, constitutes, for our people and all the world's struggling peoples, literature that is life and life that is literature, for today and tomorrow.

There is included an excellent selected bibliography of his major writings, reference notes, a calendar of his public life, and a ready-reference index. Sixteen pages of pictures, some of them quite rare, illustrating significant points in Du Bois's life, are also included in the volume.

George B. Murphy, Jr.

THE U.S.A. IN THAILAND

THAILAND: THE WAR THAT IS, THE WAR THAT WILL BE. By Louise E. Lomax. Random House, New York. 175 pages. $4.95.

THE FALLOUT from the Vietnam war appears in many forms. One of its more constructive manifestations is the stimulus which it has provided to an ever widening circle of truth seekers who are making it their business to be aware of what Washington is doing in their name in remote and exotic lands other than Vietnam. The clandestine manner by which our government gradually involved us in the Vietnamese civil war, shielding its actions behind a smokescreen of propaganda and outright lies, cast a cloud of skepticism over all government pronouncements concerning U.S. activities abroad which is likely to remain with us for some time to come.

One of the areas where the credibility gap quickly became most noticeable was in Thailand, where a burgeoning U.S. military presence coupled with cascading expenditures stood nakedly exposed to the view of all who cared to notice. Many of the Vietnam war critics did care to notice, and among the facts which they managed to learn and to publicize were that the U.S. had built vast air bases in Thailand (while denying it), that a significant number of the U.S. bombing attacks on North Vietnam originated from these air bases, and that the U.S. was heavily involved in the incipient Thai civil war and in fact was rapidly becoming the raison d'etre for that conflict. Indeed, the parallels to our early involvement in Vietnam were 
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