Frolic on the Far Left

Amid all the din about the radical right, it sometimes seems as though there no longer is such a thing as a far left in U.S. politics.

But there is-- a fact demonstrated by 250 delegates of the California Federation of Young Democrats, who met in convention at San Diego. They came up with a set of resolutions urging that the U.S. should: 1) recognize East Germany and "the existing status quo of a divided Germany; 2) reopen normal diplomatic and trade relations with Castro's Communist Cuba; 3) open diplomatic relations with Red China; and 4) denounce the Diem government in South Viet Nam as a "reactionary dictatorship," gradually pull out all U.S. troops and cut off all U.S. financial help.

Even California's regular Democratic leaders, a pretty liberal lot themselves, were highly embarrassed. Said State Chairman Eugene Wyman: "The Young Democrats, a small organization numbering under 5,000 individuals, do not speak for the Democratic Party . . . This weekend they were off on an independent frolic in San Diego, speaking only for themselves."

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