Word: vietcong
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Dates: during 1962-1962
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...toleration of neutrality can lead only to a communist infiltration and an eventual take over by the communists in Vietnam, he declared. As an example of infiltration, Soliven cited a report that the Vietcong a communist army, has 25,000 soldiers in Vietnam now, whereas it had only 20,000 in Vietnam "before neutrality was established...
...people of Vietnam are not satisfied with the rule of Diem and therefore they do not resist the guerilla tactics of the Vietcong. Soliven warned that "You can pour money into South East Asia but if the people are not in favor of the government, money will be of no use in resisting the communists." The United States has been content to send billions of dollars to Vietnam, without gaining the loyalty of the people, he claimed...