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...when he returned. He says he found it "hard to watch the Communist takeover this spring. Although the U.S. was terribly wrong, and while Hanoi is miles ahead of the Thieu government in terms of seeing to the welfare of the people, ideologically. I just can't agree with Communism, and emotionally, the meaningless deaths of my friends killed there leave me very unhappy. I probably hoped that the Third Force would somehow come to power and end the war, but I guess I really didn't have too many hopes...
...want to know how they can get back to Vietnam. Some thought conditions in Vietnam would be worse than they apparently are, others were fleeing the war in order to protect their families. The majority of the refugees are women and children who wanted to escape the war, not communism. And many of the men were officers in the South Vietnamese army or businessmen who had some money and wanted to get out to keep...
This country is going to go through what the Vietnamese are going through right now. This will be the price the world will have to pay for its hypocrisy about facing the threat of Communism and trying to appease the unappeasable...
Unfortunately most of the voices raised so far against wholesale acceptance have been ill-informed, immoral or racist. Racism is patent in the charges that Vietnamese refugees will carry disease. "Spread communism," and possibly flood the job market with cheap labor. It would be better to accept all the refugees than to how to these voices echoing the most disreputable chapters of our history. If we do screen Vietnamese refugees and reject asylum for a few of them, it must be clear that America is not obeying the voice of primitive racism, but making a belated attempt to cease...
...past tumultuous month, the Khmer Rouge conquest of Cambodia and the Communist triumphs in South Viet Nam were reported in the Soviet press with striking discretion. The first official Moscow communique on Saigon's fall emphasized that it was primarily a victory for detente rather than for Communism. Said Tass: "A most dangerous source of international tension and military conflict has been eliminated...