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RAY CRQMLEY
U.S. Viet Policies Sound,
Even to Support Given Ho
By RAY CROMLEY
Washington Correspondent
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
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WASHINGTON (NEA)
A great deal of misinformation is given out these days
on U.S. actions in Southeast Asia over the past two decades.
Some professors with great prestige in leading U.S. uni
versities argue that if the United States had managed things
better there would be no war in Vietnam.
They say we should have encouraged Ho Chi Minh instead
of fighting him and then, they say, he might well have
divorced himself from Russia and Red China. Some of them
say he was not really a Communist, anyway, but was leader
of a “truly” nationalist revolt against the French.
Instead of aiding the French to stay in Indochina, they
assert, we should have worked to get the French out.
Some of these allegations by the professors just don’t
happen to be true.
Ho Chi Minh was helped by the United States in the war
against the Japanese. The actual disarming of the Japanese
in North Indochina was done under the auspices of the
United States in consultation with Ho Chi Minh.
So long as the United States was convinced that Ho’s
movement was a genuinely nationalist movement, the United
States gave him encouragement.
This reporter was in background sessions with top officials
of the U.S. government in the period after World War II
when the French had returned to Indochina.
These U.S. officials, including ranking cabinet members,
were attempting to talk the French into leaving Indochina.
This reporter remembers, as though it were yesterday, the
frustration of U.S. officials at the French attitude.
But in the end the French left. They were not defeated.
Dien Bien Phu was not a critical loss.
But the French had learned, when they asked for U.S.
intervention at Dien Bien Phu, that the United States would
not bolster them in Indochina.
Late in this period it became evident that what had started
out as a national Indochinese revolution against the French
was being subverted into a Communist take-over. The revolu
tion had attracted a wide variety of patriotic young men.
The Communists were a minority. Toward the end, however,
Ho managed to weed out the non-Communists from the top
revolutionary posts. The revolution was then taken over by
Ho’s Red henchmen in one of the sorriest, dirtiest internal
subversions in recent history.
Ho had been a Communist as long as Mao Tse-tung. He
was firmly dedicated to the Red cause. It became clear that
there was no dealing with Ho except on his terms. He and
the Communists would be the rulers. There would be no
rule by the people. Opposition would be silenced by terror,
assassinations and purges.
Even then—though U.S. officials no longer trusted Ho—
they wanted the French out. The}* believed a new native
leadership would develop in the south. But they didn’t
want the French thrown out by force by a Communist-led
army. They wanted a peaceful settlement which would make
it possible for a genuine Vietnam nationalist government to
come into being.
It is difficult to see how the United States could have
followed a different basic policy.
★ WASHINGTON COLUMN ★
Viet Cong Now Desperate
But Not Ready to Quit--Yet
| By BRUCE BIOSSAT
Washington Correspondent
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
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WASHINGTON (NEA)
A few days ago, the clandestine radio of the Viet Cong said:
“The south and the north are united, millions as one, and
are animated by the same will and determination to fight and
defeat the U.S. imperialist aggressors, an aggressive, stub
born, cunning and perfidious enemy.”
At another point in a long statement, the VC commentator
added:
“With every passing day, victories have been greater and
greater and ever more repeated, and in the present “deter
mination to fight and win” spring, the gunfire to annihilate
the Americans, their puppets and satellites is being heard
resoundingly on all battlefields . . .”
Utterances of this sort, commonplace in VC quarters, in
Hanoi and in Peking these days hardly suggest Red eager
ness to rush to the negotiating table.
A Saigon correspondent for a major newspaper says Euro
pean diplomats there who have ties with Hanoi agree today
that North Vietnam has no intention of engaging in peace
talks with the United States.
What the Reds are doing, in fact, is to build up their forces
for harder, tougher combat. Their introduction of rockets to
the battle zones has been well-publicized. They have also
drawn together some of the largest concentrations of mortars
ever seen in war.
Their stepped-up southward flow of supplies during the
recent lunar New Year bombing pause was not something
improvised in a moment. Preparations for the supply push
were carefully made.
Hanoi and the VC do not truly believe they are going to
wipe out 425,000 U.S. soldiers with their tremendous fire
power. But they seem to think they can make a war of attri
tion so unpopular in the United States that American voters
in 1968 .will turn out President Johnson and elect a man who
will sue for peace on Red terms.
If a war lasting into 1968 will be difficult for Johnson to
defend before the voters, it may not be exactly easy for Hanoi
to sustain. Already there is evidence that very heavy Red
battlefield losses are being cloaked by fantastically exagge
rated claims of victory over U.S. forces. Said Hanoi Radio
recently—
“ The enemy losses included three motorized battalions, one
battalion and 13 companies of U.S. infantry, and one battalion
and five companies of artillery completely wiped out. Among
the units heavily decimated were four infantry battalions
These losses represent 18 per cent of the enemy manpower,
48 per cent of the tank and armored force, and 32 per cent
of the artillery involved in the raids.”
In this kind of force-feeding there is an obvious element of
desperation. Yet the desperation appears to be tempered by
the insistent Red notion that the United States will give up if
its will is taken at last to the straining point.
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Wednesday, April 26, 1967
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