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...visible instigator of last week's events was one Colonel Pham Ngoc Thao, a Catholic with a checkered political career-he fought with the Communist Viet Minh under Ho Chi Minh, now President of North Viet Nam, then swung to the right, served briefly as a public-relations man for General Nguyen Khanh after Khanh seized power a year ago. One day last week, troops appeared in the streets of Saigon, and Colonel Thao popped out of a tank turret, explaining: "This operation is to expel Nguyen Khanh from the government." With Thao was Catholic ex-General...
Coleman and Robinson also maintain that Vietnam would improve economically under Ho. In view of poverty in the North so intense that there were attempted peasant rebellions in Ho's home province several years ago, and so intense that soldiers had to kill peasants looting the areas bombed by U.S. planes, we may question Ho's economic talents. In view of the fact that the South Vietnamese had an extremely favorable balanced of trade and were among the best-fed people in Southeast Asia before the present war, the statement is purely imaginative...
...would be foolish to suggest that Ho Chi Minh is still America's friend, but the rigidity of 1945-46 reveals the failure of the "hard-nosed" military strategists to distinguish one communist from the next. Instead of using the splits in the Communist bloc to weaken and contain China, the recent air strikes against North Vietnam seem calculated to bring Hanoi, Peking, and Moscow closer together. The Administration must begin to develop a new diplomacy toward emerging nations, which may have socialist or communist systems, but which can have friendly relations with the United States. Such a policy would...
...Administration could send a mission to Hanoi to find out just what concessions can be won from Ho Chi Minh. The U.S. has some strong bargaining points; ever since Vietnam has been split up, the North has suffered from agricultural shortages which can only be remedied by drawing on the giant rice fields in the South. Furthermore, Ho has not yet aligned himself with the Peking Communist bloc, and there is evidence that he might welcome the chance to end the war and use U.S. aid to make his nation less dependent on a threatening China...
...nations which formally divided Vietnam at Geneva in 1954 could meet again and immediately negotiate a cease-fire for, say one year. At the conference Vietnam would be militarily neutralized and the U.S. could bargain with Ho for as much political non-alignment as it can get. But the facts must be faced: a united Vietnam will be Communist...