Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would be foolish to suggest that Ho Chi Minh is still America's friend, but the rigidity of 1945-46 reveals the failure of the "hard-nosed" military strategists to distinguish one communist from the next. Instead of using the splits in the Communist bloc to weaken and contain China, the recent air strikes against North Vietnam seem calculated to bring Hanoi, Peking, and Moscow closer together. The Administration must begin to develop a new diplomacy toward emerging nations, which may have socialist or communist systems, but which can have friendly relations with the United States. Such a policy would...
...evidence that the Hanol regime is supplying economic or military aid to the South Vietnamese movement. In October, 1963, the Baltimore Sun reported an official U.S. estimate of the sources of Viet Cong arms, which indicated that only one out of fifty weapons came from the Communist bloc. Most of the equipment was American and had been captured from Diem's army...
...effect. If the United States is concerned about its "strategic interests" in Southeast Asia, it should offer the South Vietnamese Communists economic assistance either directly or through the agency of France or the United Nations. This would enable the regime to remain independent of support by the Communist bloc and allow the U.S. to force whatever social reforms are needed in the rest of the "free world" in that area
...Hanoi, exchanging pleasantries with North Viet Nam's Ho Chi Minh and chatting desultorily about possible Soviet military aid. Then-bang!-bombs were falling only 250 miles away. Aleksei was on the spot, and his position brought into sharp focus the whole question of Communist-bloc relations...
...regards Hanoi's control of the Viet Cong, it has been persuasively argued by Philloppe Devillers (North Vietnam Today, P.J. Honey, ed.), by Oliver B. Clubb (The U.S. & the Sino-Soviet Bloc in Southeast Asia), and others that the North Vietnamese regime refused to support the struggle of the Viet Cong which began in 1957 in response to Diem's repressive policies, in particular, the bogus land reform. Thus, support was not forthcoming until 1960. Since, by this time, the U.S. had violated every principle of the 1954 Geneva Agreements, the limited support in the form of political cadres...