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Part of the problem with present American policy is the rigidity of its stance towards Communist powers. For example, in 1945 and 1946, when the Communist Ho Chi Minh government established itself, Ho appealed to the U.S. for aid, and looked upon the United States and China as his closest allies. American support for the French war soon corrected Ho's views...
...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...
...only alternative to Ho Chi Minh which the U.S. has thus far offered the South Vietnamese peasantry has been increasing brutal oppression. If the American government were to withdraw now, the Communist-led peasant movement would gain control of South Vietnam. This move would not only give the peasants what they have sought since 1945, but would also offer the country the possibility of economic development, something that neither the United States nor the South Vietnamese landlords have been able to effect. If the United States is concerned about its "strategic interests" in Southeast Asia, it should offer the South...
When U.S. jets began hitting North Viet Nam last week, the most surprised Communist of all was probably Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin. There he sat in 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...
When the Viet Minh were waging their bloody battle against the French, Red China constructed a road and rail network into North Viet Nam. Since then, blue-clad Chinese laborers have been hard at work on roads linking Yunnan and Laos. With the aid of these routes, the Red Chinese colossus is believed mobile enough to move twelve divisions-about 120,000 men-from China to Hanoi in a month's time...