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...rush of putting out a newspaper article, the May 2nd Committee made certain mistakes. The first error in the article "U.S. Battling Peasant revolt in Vietnam" is that L. Michael Robinson, although he gave preliminary advice, was not responsible for the preparation of the article; Coleman is the sole author. In addition, there is evidence that the Hanoi regime is supplying some support to the Liberation Front. The point of the article is that it is insubstantial...
...North after 1954 were southerners who had withdrawn according to the Geneva accords and who returned when Diem's regime violated those accords. That again was to show that the U.S. is fighting against a popular and indigenous movement in the South... Albert L. Maher '63-2 May 2nd Committee
...question of infiltration is crucial to discussion of the Vietnam war. Passages from the same books which the May 2nd Committee continually quote i their literature (e.g., Warner, The Last Confucian) contain detailed documentation of light infiltration by North Vietnamese until early March of 1962 and heavy infiltration from that time. The testimony of universally respected reporters, like Bill Mauldin, that the Viet Cong attacking Pleiku carried documents proving beyond doubt that they were part of a special mission form the North, is simply beyond dispute. Eighty tons of armament from the North were captured at Vung Ry Bay alone...
...good targets for propaganda from the North. By Asian standards they were well off. Their crops were bountiful. The maximum interest rate allowed by Diem's hard-to-enforce laws was 25 percent, only one-quarter to one-eighth that generally charged in the prosperous Philippines. The May 2nd Committee has remarked that when this rate was set, many landlords raised their rents to this figure. This is true. But in the context of South-east Asia it is almost incredible that the rates would have been lower...
...that we are involved in an economic war more than a military war. But if it is not necessary to assume the officials U.S. line, neither is its necessary to follow the Official Communist line, the latter by coincidence being identical on all points to that of the May 2nd Committees. William H. Overholt...