THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Clinton's early dovecote updated
SEPTEMBER 14, 1992 
Section: E 
COMMENTARY 
Edition: 2 
Page: E4 
Floyd Brown 
Illustration: Cartoon, GOVERNOR, WHAT ABOUT YOUR UNCLE'S EFFORT TO KEEP YOU OUT OF THE DRAFT? / HOW COME YOUR ACCOUNT DOESN'T SQUARE WITH THE SELECTIVE SERVICE RECORDS, GOVERNOR? / WHERE'D YOU GET A CUTE NICKNAME LIKE `SLICK WILLIE,' GOVERNOR?, By M. Shelton/The Orange County Register
Bill Clinton's draft record has dogged him since serious questions were first raised in the Wall Street Journal last February. After a hollow attempt (in the name of "full disclosure") by his friend and fellow Rhodes Scholar, Strobe Talbott, to put the charges to rest in the April issue of Time, a series of new revelations has raised more questions about Mr. Clinton's truthfulness in reporting his record. 

But there is a more fundamental dimension of Mr. Clinton's anti-war activities during his Oxford days that neither he nor Mr. Talbott has yet addressed. This new information raises questions that are just as troubling as whether Mr. Clinton dodged the draft then and whether he is lying now. 
To learn this story, we turn to the Rev. Richard McSorley, a Jesuit priest and professor of peace studies who has taught at Georgetown University since Bill Clinton's undergraduate days there. Father McSorley's memoir about his international travels with the pacifist movement, Peace Eyes, was published in 1977 and is now out of print. Peace Eyes begins: "When I got off the train in Oslo, Norway, I met Bill Clinton of Georgetown University. He asked if he could go with me visiting peace peopl e. We visited the Oslo Peace Institute, talked with conscientious objectors, with peace groups, and with university students. At the end of the day as Bill was preparing to leave, he commented, `This is a great way to see a country,' " 
Father McSorley was so impressed with Bill Clinton that he wrote in his Foreword, "I thought at the time that his [Mr. Clinton's] words summarized what I wanted to say in this book. To see a country with a peace focus, through the eyes of peace people is a good way to travel, a good way to see a country and the world." 
As a Rhodes Scholar in England, Bill Clinton learned to see the world, including his native America, through the eyes of the international peace movement. The details of this perspective, and its influence on Bill Clinton's worldview, have received no attention. The record should be set straight for all voters, regardless of how they feel about his response to service in the U.S. armed forces. 
Father McSorley recalls that on "Nov. 15, 1969, I participated in the British moratorium against the Vietnam War in front of the U.S. Embassy at Grosvenor Square in London. Even the appearance of the Embassy stressed the over-exaggerated nature of America's power. . . .. The total effect of architecture and decor says to the passer-by, `America is the biggest and greatest power on the globe.' . . . That day in November about 500 Britons and Americans were meeting to express their sorrow at America's misuse of power in Vietnam. . . .. Most of them carried signs which said, Americans out of Vietnam." 
Father McSorely goes on to describe vividly the demonstration, which ended with a chorus of "We shall overcome." 
"The activities in London supporting the second stage of the moratorium and the March of Death in Washington, were initiated by Group 68 [Americans in Britain]," wrote Father McSorely. "This group had the support of British peace organizations, including the Committee on Nuclear Disarmament, the British Peace Council, and the International Committee for Disarmament and Peace." 
Then comes this revelation: "The next day I joined with about 500 other people for the interdenominational service. Most of them were young, and many of them were Americans. As I was waiting for the ceremony to begin, Bill Clinton of Georgetown, then studying as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, came up and welcomed me. He was one of the organizers. . . . After the service Bill introduced me to some of his friends. With them, we paraded over to the American Embassy, carrying white crosses made of wood about 1 foot high. There we left the crosses as an indication of our desire to end the agony of Vietnam." 
Father McSorely can hardly be called a tool of the opponents to Bill Clinton's candidacy for president. Yet his prosaic, thorough depiction of those events, puts Bill Clinton squarely in the lead of a series of demonstrations with the public support of the British Peace Council, an affiliate of the World Peace Council and as obvious a front group for the Soviet KGB's international department as any that ever was. 
Now, Bill Clinton at Oxford was no naif. He was a calculating political analyst, already confirmed in his ambition as a leader of his generation. By his own testimony, in his letter to ROTC Director Col. Eugene Holmes, Bill Clinton was taking great care to preserve what he considered his "political viability." In this letter, Mr. Clinton also maintained that "not many people had more information about Vietnam at hand than I did." 
With this in mind, cooperation alone in anti-American demonstrations abroad would raise eyebrows. But Bill Clinton did more than cooperate; Bill Clinton was a leader of a movement under the direct aegis and support of one of the most notorious communist front organizations in Europe. 
Further, it was at Oxford that Mr. Clinton gathered around him the advisors who still constitute some of the senior leadership of his campaign. The American people deserve a full accounting, now, of Bill Clinton's contacts in and coordination with the World Peace Council's British leadership. 
Spare us Strobe Talbott's "full disclosure" and your own pussyfooting, Governor. Tell us everything, tell us yourself, and tell us now." 
Floyd G. Brown, chairman of the Presidential Victory Committee, is author of the forthcoming book, "Slick Willie: Can American Trust Bill Clinton?" (Annapolis Publishing). 




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