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...moment, the Reds are demanding nothing more than an end to the American presence and a move toward "neutralism." But as Thailand's Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman recently remarked to visiting U.S. Senator Mike Mansfield: "Thailand does not want to become another guinea pig in a laboratory to use as a test of Communist good faith." In that, the Thais can be assured of American concurrence...
Whenever it starts feeling lonely in Southeast Asia, the U.S. can always take heart in at least one staunch, cheerleading, on-the-field friend. That friend is Thailand, and visiting the U.S. last week was one of the Thais' brainiest and most articulate spokesmen, Thanat Khoman, 51, onetime Ambassador to the U.S. and to the United Nations, now his country's able Foreign Minister...
...outshout the more vociferous of campus critics. Thanat employed reason and restrained passion to speak up for the U.S. in Southeast Asia and, as he sees it, for the future of freedom there. He sounded his theme on radio-TV's Meet the Press. Asked whether current American policy has made the U.S. "extremely unpopular" with Asia, Thanat said no. "I think what the U.S. has been doing in South Viet Nam will go into history as a courageous decision, and measures which will save not only South Viet Nam but the whole of Southeast Asia from Communist domination...
...Come Back." Addressing a luncheon meeting of Washington's National Press Club. Thanat said: "As we see it from the perspective of Southeast Asia, the war is one of conquest-nothing more, nothing less. It is not a civil war, not a white man's war. Some people try to make us believe that it is a war of national liberation. To say the least, that is a euphemism. Just ask those who live in the so-called liberated territories. They will tell you, in no uncertain terms, that life is miserable...
...Thanat recalled that of the more than 60,000 North Vietnamese refugees living in Thailand, half had been seduced by Ho Chi Minh's propaganda machine into returning home. But they had no sooner returned than the Communists stripped them of the possessions that they had brought with them from Thailand. Says Thanat: The returned refugees sent word back to their countrymen in Thailand-"Don't ever come back to this paradise...