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...Burma's U Thant, Secretary-General of the United Nations, who announced that he had been "conducting private discussions" with various nations involved in the Viet Nam conflict and had made "concrete" proposals that he could not publicly divulge. Still, he felt certain that the American people, "if only they knew the true facts"-presumably, there are "untrue" facts in Burma-would agree with him "that further bloodshed is unnecessary...
Once & for All. When President Johnson heard of U Thant's statements, he went through the roof. Among other things, he authorized White House Press Secretary George Reedy to declare emphatically: "There are no authorized negotiations under way with Mr. Thant or any other government." In fact, said Reedy, the U.S. has yet to receive from any source any "meaningful" proposal for negotiations. The President also authorized Defense Secretary Robert McNamara to issue a "white paper" aimed at proving once and for all the extent of North Vietnamese aggression in South Viet Nam (see THE WORLD...
...effort to promote negotiations over Viet Nam, U.N. Secretary-General U Thant last week pointed with pride to his native Burma. His homeland, he told newsmen, had been faced with Communist insurrection after independence in 1948, but by themselves, the Burmese contained the Reds...
...Thant added that Burma has a 1,000-mile border with Red China, "but let me tell you, there has not been a single instance of outside help to the Communists inside Burma in the last 17 years." Had Burma accepted outside aid against the Reds, one of two things would have happened: "Either the country would be divided into two parts, or the whole country would have become Communist long ago." Finally, U Thant contended that Burma had held off Communism without the loss "of one American life" or the "expenditure of one American dollar in military assistance...
When Pacem in Terris was published, the immediate response was an astonishingly broad chorus of praise. Grateful for John's favorable comments on the U.N., Secretary-General U Thant hailed the Pope's "wisdom, vision and courage." Abandoning its traditional policy of nonresponse to papal words, the U.S. State Department heralded Pacem in Terris' emphasis on human liberty. Equally delighted by the encyclical's denunciation of colonialism, Europe's Communist press crowed so loudly about John's "opening to the left" that the Vatican was forced to re-emphasize the church's unaltered...