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...President also reaffirmed his belief in the domino theory of nations falling to Communism, and needlessly insisted that the Viet Nam policies of Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon and himself had all been "aimed in the right direction" and constituted "sound policy...
...there they were last week, struggling toward sanctuaries deeper and deeper in the South. Were they "voting with their feet," in the phrase used to describe, among other things, the escape of East Germans to the West? Was Communism a more important threat to the peasant, as well as the middle-class merchant, than it was sometimes made...
...most areas of the south not 1% of the population really understands Communism," says a U.S. social worker from an overrun province; "but rightly or wrongly, there is that fear of what Communists will do to them. Communism is still a physical threat." Twenty-one years of government propaganda no doubt helped instill that fear; but so did 21 years of exposure to Viet Cong and North Vietnamese tactics...
...nobody else who was the legitimate father of all of modern China. His death could hardly have been more dramatically timed. To Chiang, the rout of anti-Communist forces in Indochina must have seemed the inevitable continuation of the long and losing Asian struggle against Communism, in which he was the principal casualty...
...died in 1925, and Chiang soon took command of the Kuomintang. Over the next two years he led his armies on a brilliant series of campaigns against the warlords that resulted in a precariously unified nation. Despite his ardent opposition to Communism, Chiang at first collaborated with the vigorous fledgling Chinese Communist Party and its Soviet advisers; but with the work of reunification well advanced, he turned against the Communists, executing thousands and driving others out of the new national government. Among those he shunted aside was the head of Kuomintang propaganda, a firebrand named Mao Tse-tung...