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...Catholic Vietnamese." But pinned down as to whether they suffered "persecution," Phillips replied: "I would say no." He added that "they carried on a very effective public relations program in getting their story before the American people," and noted that they had been supported by fellow Buddhists in neutralist Burma and Ceylon and in Red China...
...Chinese conquered most of the area before Christ was born and ruled it for 1,000 years before Columbus discovered America. When not battling the hordes from the north, the Indo-Chinese slaughtered each other. Burma carried out devastating invasions of Thailand in the 16th and 18th centuries; Thailand fought Viet Nam for control of Laos; both the Thais and the Vietnamese marched southward against Cambodia. In the 14th century, Thailand finally destroyed Cambodia's then-great Khmer Empire, and 200 years ago the Vietnamese overran Saigon-which was a Cambodian fishing village. The European colonizations beginning...
Likely to fall would be Burma, given its 1,370-mile frontier with Red China. Dictator Ne Win is plunging his country headlong into instant socialism, further dislocating a society racked by civil strife. In his two years in power, Ne Win has nationalized all banks, taken 70% of trade out of private hands. Two weeks ago, soldiers in battle dress invaded and seized more than 3,000 wholesale stores in Rangoon. Meanwhile, upwards of 2,500 political prisoners are behind bars-paradoxically including many Communists. Half a dozen insurgent guerrilla bands, two of them Communist, roam the hinterlands...
With the Indo-Chinese peninsula and Burma gone, the pressure southward would become increasingly hard to resist. The healthy, vigorous and anti-Communist Malaysian Federation, already under attack by Indonesia, would probably have to fight for its life. Indonesia itself would draw ever closer to the Communist camp. The Philippines would probably hold out but would be severely menaced...
...Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs, was the State Department official most directly charged with responsibility for Viet Nam policy under both Jack Kennedy and Johnson. A graduate of West Point (Class of '43), a wartime guerrilla fighter with Merrill's Marauders in Burma, an OSS officer in the Far East, holder of a Ph.D. in international politics from Yale, Hilsman had long talked about returning to academic life. He once tried to submit his resignation to Kennedy, but Kennedy persuaded him to stay on. Both Kennedy and Harriman admired Hilsman's rapid-fire command...