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...Hanoi and Peking last week had all the gruff timbre of true paper tigers. Both Ho Chi Minh and Mao Tse-tung sneeringly declined to receive British Envoy Patrick Gordon Walker, who had planned a visit to discuss negotiations over Viet Nam. The U.N.'s Secretary-General U Thant got a more raucous rebuff: "U Thant is knocking at the wrong door," bellowed Peking to the suggestion of U.N. involvement. Ho dismissed Lyndon Johnson's offer of "unconditional discussions" over Viet Nam as "stinking of poison gas," and demanded complete withdrawal of U.S. forces as the starting point...
...criticism of U.S. policy was juvenile or emotional. France's feelings have long been known. Britain's Labor government was finding it increasingly difficult to defend the U.S. in Commons. The U.N.'s U Thant had long since criticized the Johnson Administration for failing to keep the U.S. informed of the "true facts" about Viet Nam. Canada's Prime Minister Lester Pearson made a speech in Philadelphia urging the U.S. to call a temporary halt in bombing North Viet Nam. And from a 17-nation conference in Belgrade, with countries ranging from Afghanistan to Zambia, came...
...President of Cyprus. In Ankara, the Turkish government railed at the report, accused Plaza of being pro-Greek and denounced him for going beyond the "boundaries of his duty." Instead of solving one problem, complained a Turkish official, Plaza had created a new one. But U.N. Secretary-General U Thant defended Plaza's report as perfectly proper...
Americans, said U Thant redundantly, should know the true facts about Southeast Asia-but which facts are true about Burma...
...Thant exaggerates when he says not a single American dollar has been spent on military assistance to Burma. In 1958, under a subtly termed 40-year, 3.5% loan, Washington agreed to sell Burma $8.8 million worth of equipment, ranging from Jeeps to patrol boats. Burma is potentially so rich a land that Ne Win has managed to increase foreign-exchange reserves from $170 million in 1962 to $240 million last year, largely because Burma is the world's largest exporter of rice...