I favor U.S. intervention in Vietnam. Nevertheless I bring to my subject the attitude of a native-born Washingtonian who remembers that the last time the Senators won the pennant was in 1933, and who is inclined to believe that if you're not wining, there's something wrong. There's something wrong with your theory, there's something wrong with your practice, something wrong someplaee if year after year you end up in tenth, ninth or eighth place. There's little comparable in terms of winning or losing wars of national liberation; obviously one of the things that is most upsetting is that they are not apparently amenable to “winning or losing.” Winning has to be redefined and that redefinition is part of my present task.

“Do organized religions have the right to consider problems of war and peace?” The answer, of course, is yes. This may seem to some a mere cliché, but given the extremely wide spectrum of contemporary opinion about what religion should or should not do, it is useful to emphasize this point.

To those of us who get letters from readers or telephone calls from parishioners, it may not seem immediately evident that this point is generally acknowledged. It is nevertheless true. No matter how angry the reaction may be to any given statement, the basic attack, ultimately, is almost always on the content of the statement rather than upon the right of the religious group to make a statement of some kind about war and peace.

The U-2 affair which led to the aborted Summit Conference in 1960, the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961, and C.I.A, support of the ill-fated Diem regime in Vietnam have all served to focus attention on the problems of management and control of one of the world's largest Intelligence empires. C.I.A. reportedly employs more people than the Department of State (although it denies any foreign policy-making role) and has an annual budget estimated at over $500,000,000. For the last three years it has been ensconced in a new $50 million building in Langley, Virginia, which has emblazoned over its glittering entrance, “The Truth Shall Make You Free.”