Word: warsaw
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...national leaders have told the world that we will go "to any spot on this earth" in search of peace in Viet Nam [April 19]; yet the Administration immediately rejected Pnompenh and Warsaw as possible sites for talks. Lyndon Johnson's hands are irrefutably sullied with the blood of every American boy killed in Viet Nam from the time of that rejection until the day that peace talks do finally begin. Let the people of the world know that it is not all of America but only her highest leaders who quibble over "diplomatic etiquette" while...
...meeting ground. North Vietnamese Foreign Minister Nguyen Buy Trinh came back with Pnompenh, Cambodia, "or another place to be mutually agreed upon." After each side deflected the other's first suggestion, the U.S. named Laos, Burma, Indonesia and India. "Not adequate," replied the North Vietnamese, countering with Warsaw...
...United States sent representatives to Warsaw, peace talks might have foundered for any number of reasons; there is no cause to think that Americans and North Vietnamese could have quickly contrived an easy solution. But now, if peace talks fail the administration cannot convincingly maintain a pretense of clean hands and good intentions. The U.S. has yet to make a real effort at peace talks. So far, it hasn't even been bluffing very well...
Legitimate Objections. Nevertheless, Hanoi was clearly doing so-and seemed to be getting away with it. The U.S. had some legitimate objections to Pnompenh and had equally valid reservations about Warsaw, an ally of Hanoi and a supplier of its arms. "We have proposed only places where they have an embassy and no apparent difficulties," said a U.S. official. "If we played it their way, we would suggest Taipei." Moreover, the North Vietnamese-and the Russians-did their best to capitalize on Johnson's repeated statements that he would send U.S. representatives "anywhere, any time," to "any spot...
...unorthodox channel: a Tass dispatch from Hanoi saying that Washington's reluctance to accept Pnompenh "cannot but cause wonder, because the U.S. has repeatedly expressed willingness to send its representatives to any point on the globe." Tass added that the North Vietnamese would nonetheless be willing to consider Warsaw as an alternative. Hours later, Hanoi confirmed its choice of the Polish capital in a formal note delivered to U.S. Ambassador William Sullivan in Vientiane, where there have been as many as nine exchanges between American and North Vietnamese diplomats since early April...