Word: aggressors
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...Chou Enlai, followed by a banquet at which Malraux and Chen Yi tossed flowers at each other. Of Red China and France, Malraux said, "It's true that our social systems are different. It is also true that both of us have had to battle against a powerful aggressor who, weapons in hand, came to fight in a place where he shouldn't have been." Malraux may have meant Japan's invasion of China, but Peking was free to interpret his words as meaning the U.S. in Korea...
...Peking factory even altered its assembly line to produce Chinese lantern slides branding the U.S. as the "aggressor." And word filtered out that rail traffic between Peking, Shanghai and Canton had been disrupted-perhaps due to troop or supply movements to the Southeast Asian border...
...from the North are comparable in magnitude to the bombings. Nor do the raids show any signs of accomplishing their policy objectives--stopping the flow of supplies, forcing Minh to negotiate, or softening the attitude of the North Vietnamese. The bombings have clearly marked the United States as the aggressor and escalator in one whole sector of the Vietnamese war. Yet they...
...Surely, we have learned over the past three decades that the acceptance of aggression leads only to a catastrophe. Surely, we have learned that the aggressor must face the consequences of his action and be saved from the frightful miscalculation that brings all to ruin. It is the purpose of law to guide men away from such events, to establish rules of conduct which are rooted in the reality of experience...
...President Johnson order Sunday's air strikes against North Viet Nam? The official reason is unsatisfactory, and rather frightening. Secretary McNamara has characterized the action as "a clear and necessary response to a test of American and South Vietnamese determination...by the aggressor, North Viet Nam." He was referring to Saturday's Viet Cong raid on a U.S. Army camp and airfield at Pleiku...