Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Yesterday's editorial in the CRIMSON, and Administration statements on Vietnam, obscure the real issue of the war. Both the editorial and the government hold out a hope that our improving military posture will force a negotiated settlement, creating a neutral coalition government. These positions draw attention from the central goal of American policy: preventing Communist domination of Vietnam. By clinging to this goal, the government forecloses all possibility of meaningful negotiation...
...Johnson Administration has stressed repeatedly its willingness to negotiate a settlement of the war at any time under any conditions. At the some time, however, according to Neil Sheehan in last week's New York Times, the United States "has made clear to Hanoi through neutral intermediaries and in the fine print of its public pronouncements that it will not countenance a Communist South Vietnam or the creation of any coalition regime in Saigon which might lead to a Communist seizure of power." The government seems to ask of Hanoi that it bring an end to guerrilla activities...
...adopt this strategy. Sheehan wrote recently from Saigon that "American diplomats and military commanders here are...not pinning any hopes on Geneva. They are, instead, preparing for a long war." A recent article in Newsweek reported that "suddenly" it has become "fashionable" to "soft-pedal talk of a diplomatic settlement...
...only way to avoid this long and senseless war is to achieve settlement through negotiation. And the only way to reach settlement, as suggested above, is for America to accept the possibility of a Communist Vietnam. Specifically the United States should take the following steps...
...alternatives were all or nothing: compulsory arbitration or do-nothingism. There is a healthy ground between them: the use of limited legal powers to dramatize the conflict areas, publicize the facts and solutions, put the two sides on the spot and build up opinion behind a settlement...