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...PONTS OF DELAWARE by William H. A. Carr. 368 pages. Dodd, Mead...
...method they discussed involves running an independent candidate for the Senate seat now held by Thomas J. Dodd, a conservative Democrat who is running for re-election in 1964. They also debated working for their goals through the major political parties...
Last week Connecticut's Democratic Senator Thomas J. Dodd revived the report and along with it the bitter controversy over the small band of U.S. correspondents in Saigon and the extent to which they may have distorted the news and helped shape Washington's Viet Nam policy. In a recent Senate speech, Dodd suggested that the press had deliberately buried reports of all the Buddhist immolations* that have occurred since Diem's overthrow. Now, in a letter accompanying republication of the U.N. study by the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, Dodd declared that some of the mission...
...Dodd argued that "any objective person" reading the report "would have to conclude that the accounts of massive persecution of the Buddhist religion were, at the best, vastly exaggerated, and at the worst a sordid propaganda fraud. We were told that the Diem government was guilty of such brutal religious persecution that innocent Buddhist monks were driven to commit suicide in protest. Now it turns out that the agitation was essentially political." Concludes Dodd: "What this all adds up to is that the American people have once again been grievously misinformed by some of their newspapers on a foreign situation...
These were grave charges. But, Dodd insisted, his only aim in circulating the U.N. report to the Senate, was to protect the new regime in Saigon against "a possible recrudescence of the 'Buddhist' agitation, and protect Congress and the American public against a repetition of the one-sided and misleading reporting that unfortunately characterized the recent Buddhist crisis...