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...find out where the newspaper stories came this weekend on the Vietnam military intervention into Southern Laos," Kennedy wrote foreign policy adviser McGeorge Bundy a week after the Joint Chiefs' memo. "Those stories were harmful to us. Probably exaggerated. Makes it difficult for us now to attack the Vietminh for its intervention into Laos...
...book Vietnam: Between Two Truces, Jean Lacouture pointed out that in the mid-1950's after Hanoi had withdrawn its troops and had agreed to end the insurrection by the southern Vietminh, the regime of Ngo Dinh Diem took drastic measures...
...Lederer walked from Hanoi to Haiphong with 2000 Vietnamese refugees who were going South after the Vietminh victory over the French. "They were old men and women carrying small children -- no young men," he says. He also learned from these refugees that "they were all Catholic, and their Priests told them God had moved to Saigon...
While U.S. troops and the Vietcong ambush each other in the ladrang Valley, Europe's former imperial powers view the fighting with widely divergent reactions, Sneering French cynics calmly predict another Dienbienphu--the climactic 1954 defeat of the Frech by the Vietminh. Most Germans, on the other hand, solicitously approve of America's every move. And the English are simply to preoccupied to object more than mildly...
...Overholt's assertion that the Vietminh engaged in senseless killing and torture is not substantiated by any evidence. His claim that, after victory, the Vietminh "substituted worse oppression" is ludicrous. We refer him to a most unsympathetic observer, Joseph Alsop, who, in an article in the New Yorker Magazine, June 25, 1955, described a trip which he had taken through Vietminh controlled areas of South Vietnam. "I could hardly imagine," he wrote, "a communist government that was also a popular government and almost a democratic government." Harvard-Radcliffe May 2nd Committee