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Dear Reader Thi s fi rst H DU B REPORT of 1969 i s compi l ed i n Hong Kong i n the course of a four-mi nformati on search i n Asia whi ch wl l take your correspondent to many of the countri eswth whi ch thi nki ng Ameri cans are concerned As you may know each year the J ul y-Augui ssue of Ameri can Opi nion Magazi ne carri es a report by your correspondent on twenty-niAsi an countri es For the past three years the questi on mst often put to us has beenWhat about that road across Asi a, fromAfghanistan?Thi s mysteri ous road l oom large i n the mnds of those who do not want to see the Westcommt sui ci de Fragments of i nformati on appear fromtime to ti m, as though by acci dEnough to let apprehensi ve ci ti zens know that the project exi sts, that a hi ghway overroof of the world, capable of servi ng as a road-bed for a mnster Red machi ne, i s creei ng to completi on Si nce the ci ti zen knows f romexperi ence that nei ther Ameri ca nor any Ameri can-l ed co

ti on of western powers i s l i kel y to use thi s hi ghway to rol l back the Red tide, hi s worst fears are mrethan j usti f i ed To himi t i s and was meant to be a one-way artery, as senseless as i t woul d have been hthe Bri ti sh saved Japan the troubl e of cutti ng a path through the j ungl e to Singapore Never havi ng beegi ven all the facts of this project by hi s l i beral press, probabl y out of fear that he would start protei ng, the vi ctimzed Ameri can taxpayer has gleaned three general impressi ons 1 That Russi ans are pushthe project 2 That Ameri ca i s paying for i t 3 That Russi an expansioni sm not brotherl y understanbetween the nati ons so l i nked, wl l be the resul t THE BASIC FACTS BEHND THE ASIANHGHWAY The man pushing i t hardest behind the scenes i s the UN SecreGeneral, UThant of Burma The i dea of such a road was fi rst i ntroduced by a Uni ted Nati ons Agency cal lthe Economc Commssi on for Asia and the Far East (ECAFE) i n 1958 Fromthat mment, turned over to aECAFE sub-commttee cal l ed Hghways and Hghway Transport Commttee, the project became a mnstrous bodoggle, desti ned to l eak mney l i ke a si eve, i n vast amunts over a span of years, far enough fromAmerithat no pryi ng eyes would cause troubl e A so pushi ng for the proposed highway were hard-eyedmen out fworl d conquest rather than l oot and consequentl y perf ectl y wl l i ng, si nce i t was not thei r mney that wabei ng grafted, to al l ow the l ooters a free hand i n return for thei r support Starry-eyed do-gooders, imed wth the UN l i ne, made up the remainder The stori es of wanton robbery that have come out of our aid program al ong the route of this projectedhighway woul d f i l l a l i brary Wheel er-deal ers i n Washi ngton i n debati ng how they were going to di vi de tswag, cal l ed i t cutti ng the melon. Aman who had been barred fromgovernment contracts because of agraft scandal some years before managed to edge hi s way back to the trough by becomng a di rector of acompany handl i ng government contracts Then the company' s presi dent became a forei gn ai d off i ci al and shi s erstwhi l e bl ackbal l ed associ ate to Indi a In order to see hi s NewYork gi rl -fri end for one weekend,the rehabi l i tated contractor i n I ndi a persuaded a group of mel on-cutters i n Washi ngton that a pendi ng dewould go through i f they would buy a round-the-worl d plane ti cket for the niece of a certai n general hani ng forei gn ai d i n Afghanistan The general had no i dea of the l ady' s existence or the round-the-worl dplane ti cket, newl uggage and expensi ve camera on which hi s good wl l was supposed to be conti ngent Buthe mel on-cutters came through Thi s i s onl y a sample Consi der the scrambl i ng amng fri ends of pol i ti ci ans when there i s a chance to cstruct a bri dge i n Ameri ca Then imagi ne the opportuni ti es whi ch resourceful Asiati cs and westerners,worki ngwth and agai nst each other, have been able to come up wth i n a project to bui l d a hi ghway thatwl l cover 34,500 mles and l i nk the countri es of Asi a, fromSai gon i n South V etnamto Teheran, i n I ranCOMMTTEES AND SUB-COMMTTEES W T TOWORK I t was a si ght that would have del i ghted M Parkinson Modi spensers estimated that the project would cost at l east 1,100 ml l i on (U S. , which i s to say that ttotal bi l l wl l be two or three times that much The work i s under the aegi s of Uni ted Nati ons, therebyprovi di ng a tri umph for the world body I n the actual constructi on ECAFE supervises the j ob, ai ded by aadvi sory organ of UNparentage cal l ed the INTERNATIONAL ROAD FEDERATION O the 1,100ml l i on (U S that the road wl l cost, the Ameri can government agreed to pay 600 ml l i on out of forei gn aid The AsHghway countri es -- mst of whose contri buti ons would come fromthe Ameri can taxpayer woul d suppl yrest

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Page 2ECAFE s mul ti -mll i on dol l ar seat i n Bangkok i s the headquarters of the grandiose proj ect, and twelve Asiancountri es are as of nowdue to be l i nked by what i s cal l ed the Pri ori ty Route A-1 Thi s, as the namsuggests, i ndi cates that other routes, simlarl y f i nanced but wth UNgetti ng the credi t and aggressi ve Rednati ons eventual l y the use, wl l fol l ow Running f romKabul to the Khyber Pass and thence toward SoutheastAsi a, Priori ty Route A-1 i s desi gned to provide a rapi d transportati on artery through Afghani stan, I ndia,I ndonesia, I ran, Laos, Mal aysi a, Nepal , Paki stan, South Vietnam Ceylon and Thail and, i f communi st guerri l land nati ve bandi ts permt Burm and Camodia were among the ori gi nal signatori es of the schem, and bothare essenti al l i nks to the hi ghway as i t was pl anned Parti cul arl y Burm, whose spanwould connect theI ndian sub-conti nent wth Southeast Asia Both backed out in 1967 One reason gi ven was that Peking re-garded the hi ghway as an imperi al i st pl an to enci rcl e Red China Another was that the Burmse governmntadmtted i ts i nabi l i ty to guarantee the safety of hi ghway bui lders or travel ers in areas borderi ng j ungl eswhere communi st guerri l l as are acti ve Taiwan and the Phi l i ppi nes asked the Permnent Bureau for the AsianHghway, as the Bangkok head of f i ce i scal l ed, to l et themin on the proj ect, but were turned down because of ocean di stances di vi di ng themfromthe Asia minl and Brunei , whi ch i s on the i sl and of Borneo and equal l y di stant f romthe minl and, i s forsom reason, about to be i ncludedONE WORLDSMREMANS THE GOAL The them constantl y harped upon by the one-worl ders in UN (which in 1968,to sel l i tsel f , turned out 526 ml l i on pri nted pages of propaganda weighi ng 1,738 tons) i s that comortabl eai r-condi ti oned buses wl l contri bute to understandi ng and the el imnati on of nati onal boundari es by whi ski ng passengers over the roof of the worl d and fromconti nent to conti nent At the fourth session of the Asian Hghway Co-ordinati ng Commttee, which mt in Bangkok i n l ate Novemer1968, representati ves of countri es that denounced the Wst at the Bandoeng Conference, a l itt le over a de-cade ago, decided that these buses, which the Wst wl l furni sh, wl l be f i tted wth the l atest telecommunicati on equi pmnt and be capable of travel i ng at hi gh speeds Sal ari es and pri nti ng bi l l s for the tier onti er of commttees growng fat on this boondoggl e must be colossal Obvi ousl y the upkeep of 34,500 mlesof Asian hi ghway through countri es pl agued wth bandi ts and rebels, and the servici ng of ai r-condi ti oned,radi o-telephone-equi pped buses that wl l rol l over them dri ven and mintai ned by of ten-carel ess nati vesof the Asian countri es concerned, i s going to cost a ti dy sum To create enthusi asmfor the proj ect, the25th Session of the Economc Commssi on for Asia and the Far East, which i s to met in Si ngapore i n Apri l ,wl l consi der hol di ng a motor ral l y l ater in the year between Vi enti ane, Laos, and Singapore -- this despi tthe fact that as thi s i s wi tten the only rel ati vel y safe way of going f romone ci ty to another i n Laos i sby plane Another ral l y i s pl anned for 1970, starti ng i n Europe and ending in Singapore The proposedral l i es requi re another commttee Dsregard the gl owng verbi age about i ncreasing understanding and removal of nati onal i sti c barri ers andwhat emrges i s a cl ear pi cture of another step forward in UNs one-worl di smdream To the agi tators whofanned revol uti on i n Europe s coloni es by fosteri ng nati onal i sm the way to destroy nati onal i smin countri enowindependent i s to create dri f ti ng popul ati ons, movi ng f romcountry to country and l oyal to none Cheapbus-fares i n ai r-condi ti oned vehicles i s seen as a way to l ure them Hghways are a prerequi si te for thebuses Road mintenance speci al i sts, bus sal esmn and mnufacturers of spare parts wl l have a heyday As the ASIANHGHWAY CO-ORDNATI NGCOMMTTEE nowhas the network l ai d out on paper, the European hi ghwaynetwork wl l l i nk up wth the Asian chain at the borders of Turkey and I ran The Mddl e East hi ghway wl lj oin the Asian thoroughfare at the borders of I ran and I raq Chances that Amri ca or any western comine,not resol ute enough to go out for vi ctory i n a wnnabl e war in Vietnam wl l ever use a mle of these graftri dde oad constructi ons to move armes eastward i n defense of themelves are ni l That communi st guerri l lacti ons and succeeding revoluti ons wl l comine bandi try wth sabotage al ong vast stretches my be takenfor granted Likel i hood that waves of Reds wl l eventual l y rol l westward on themi s certai n enough to mkeAmri ca s f i nanci ng of the proj ect under exi sti ng condi ti ons as sensibl e as i t would have been for Europeanto provi de a transport systemf romMongol i a to Vi enna for Genghis Khan Yet support for the proj ect i stremndous Aside f romlobbyi sts for those who stand to mke somthing on i t, i deal i sts who feel that they are improv-i ng the world, and communi sts cleari ng a route for the f i nal advance, the body most acti ve in giving theAsian hi ghway i ts momntumi s stil l UN Here the convi cti on rei gns that an unobstructed road across Asia,l i nki ng wth siml ar chains traversing Europe and the Mddle East, wl l provide the cords whi ch wl l bi nda UN-packaged world Supporti ng the one-worl ders i s Soviet Russi a, wth her bloc of Afri can, Asi ati c andEastern European votes Loomng on the hori zon i s Red China THE CHNESE THREAT Though Peki ng hypocri ti cal l y professes to see the Asian highway pl an as a move ofencirclemnt, in practi ce she would be the fi rst to prof i t by i t For an i dea of the importance of thesi gnal servi ce U Thant and hi s l ayers of Amri can-supported commttees are renderi ng to Peking, a cursorygl ance at exi sti ng si tuati ons along Pri ori ty Route A-1 i s al l that i s necessary Fi rst we must bear i nmnd that openi ng of this road wll coincide wth Bri tain s wthdrawal f romSingapore Peking s propaganda

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Page 3and trade offensive wl l be stepped up accordi ngl y and, at thi s moment, no fewanti -communist Asiati csare studyi ng Peking s methods el sewhere as a means of anti cipati ng what l i es ahead The Red Chinesespi der-web extendi ng over Western Europe, wth i ts center i n the Peking embassy i n Berne, i nterestsAsiati cs far l ess than what Peking i s doi ng i n the East Abani a, bei ng on the fri nge of Europe, i s ofimportance On November 28, 1968, the anni versary of A bani a s l i berati on i n Worl d War I I , Pekingannounced a grandi ose proj ect for setti ng up new i ndustri es i n A bani a Presumabl y they wl l be factori efor the manufacture of arm, ammuni ti on and mli tary i tem This coul d be the western cl aw of the Chinespi ncer movement I n Tanzani a s offshore i slands of Zanzi bar and Pemba, the aggressi veness of Peking stands out i n contrastto the vaci l l ati on of the West Among Zanzibar s 140,000 i nhabi tants Peki ng has set up her pri nci paltrai ni ng center for Bi afran and Tanzani an guerri l l as Over a thousand Chi nese are estimated to be attached to the Chi nese consul ate i n Zanzibar, wth stil l more i n the smal l er i sl and of Pemba Chinese shi pscal l i ng regul arl y at Zanzibar, Dar-es-Sal aamand Bei ra take the more promsi ng recruits to China foradvanced mli tary trai ni ng and l oad Rhodesi an chrome ore, for hardeni ng steel essenti al to the manufacturof arm and muni ti ons Some of thi s chrome undoubtedly comes back i n the formof weapons and ammuni ti onto be used agai nst Rhodesi a by Kenneth Kaunda s terrori sts operati ng out of Tanzania Rhodesi a s sal e ofchrome ore to Peking i s necessi tated by the sancti ons imposed by UN Meanwhi l e, energeti c ri ce-growngproj ects bei ng pushed by Peki ng agents i n Zanzibar i ndi cate preparati ons for a Chinese i nfl ux amounti ng toccupati on i n the future Manil a, gri pped wth l awessness and pessimsm i s contempl ati ng closer ti esRomul o, the newForei gn Secretary of the Phi l i ppi nes, was i nformed before hethat Canada woul d move closer to Red Chi na under the Trudeau government, andGeorgi a) woul d j oi n the l i st of Ameri can senators pushi ng for recogni ti on ofprovides the best example of howRed Chinese di pl omats wl l operate, once they are admttedwhere the pri ncipal i ngredi ent for troubl e exi sts -- to wt, a l arge Chinese populati on andas the Europeans depart

wth Red China General Cartook offi ce on J anuary 19that Senator Russel l (DemRed China Hong Kong probabto countri es

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THE PATTERNOF CHNESE SUBVERSION I NHONG KONG I t starts i n the school s At present twenty-six Chinesecommuni st school s and mddl e school s exi st i n Hong Kong, Kowoon and the terri tory admni stered by Bri taiPeking has ordered that the number be i ncreased Anti ci pati ng a Bri ti sh refusal of permts for the open-i ng of new school s, after the anti -Bri ti sh di sturbances of 1967 and 68, the dri ve i s for permssi on toopen more branches for the exi sti ng school s I t i s an operati on that those who opposed barri ng communi stteachers and professors i n Ameri ca woul d do wel l to study The Chung Wah School , nowknown as the bombschool si nce Bri ti sh pol i ce found that bombs were bei ngmade and stored there duri ng the ri ots of 1967,recentl y provided a gi rl agi tator who posed as a worker whi l e paying stri kers to block Labor Departmentefforts to end a stri ke Fromthe school s and mddle school s come the ml i tants who wl l fan out i nto j oI n the transport fi el d i t was recentl y discovered that communi st cel l s had pai nted yel l owmarks on thefront and rear of communi st owned and communist-dri ven trucks Communi st taxi dri vers had put yel l owpai nt around the shiny hub-caps on thei r wheel s Communi st banks provi de l oans for Reds wshi ng to buysmal l trucks or taxi s and set themelves up i n the transport business When they are establ i shed, theyserve as propaganda movers, message-bearers between cadre l eaders and trouble-makers harassi ng theauthori ti es I f one of the yel l owmarked vehi cles i s stopped by pol i ce for a traff i c vi ol ati on, comadesrecognize the hal ted car as one of thei r own and fl ock to the persecuted dri ver s assistance I n amatter of mnutes a surl y crowd i s col l ected Red i nfi l trati on, at the point to whi ch Peki ng agentshave devel oped i t, wl l soon turn the Ameri can-fi nanced Asi an highway, when i t i s opened, i nto the great-est channel for treason and subversi on on earth, whatever the fol ders put out by UNmay say about con-tri buti ng to peace and understandi ngTHE BOSSES OF PEK NGS TROUBLE CENTERS Who are the men who exercise i ni ti ati ve on the spot or implementthe di recti ves that come down fromthe facel ess troubl e-pl anners i n Red China? What sort of men areHow secure are thei r j obs? Here agai n Hong Kong provi des the best exampl e of the genus Peking bossabroad at work Because of its si ze and the thoroughness of Bri ti sh servi ces on the spot we have api cture of what goes on i n the countri es of Asia on a l arger scal e

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Duri ngrl dWar I I a communi st guerri l l a force known as the East River Col umn operated i n the Hong Konarea I ts prime mssion to bui l d up a reputati on wth the Bri ti sh and Ameri cans as val uabl e al l i esagai nst the J apanese by bri ngi ng escapees fromongKong safel y to Chungki ng The Deputy Pol i ti calCommssar of thi s col umnwas a Cantonese Red named Chi Fung, who after the Red takeover appeared i n theI nformati on Bureau i n Peki ng Back i n Hong Kong Mao Tse-tung s regi onal cel l was al ready impl anted Ati ts head was one of his important underground l eaders, a ruthl ess agent named Pan Han-ni en Pan l ai d thegroundwork ; then he was moved to Shanghai as Deputy Mayor unti l one day a group of Mao s henchmen closedi n and arrested himon charges of bei ng a member of the Anti -Party A l i ance whi ch Jao Su-shi h was accusof having set up The whol e thi ng may have been a trumped-up charge I n any case, the doors of Mao s

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Page pri son i n Shanghai clanged shut behi nd M Pan and he has never been heard of si nceOn Pan' s promti on to the Deputy Mayor' s offi ce i n Shanghai , hi s ol d post i n Hong Kong was taken over bya man fromNorth K angsu named Dr Chao Kuan-hwa I n Hong Kong, as el sewhere amng Mao agents, Peki ng' spress servi ce, the WCHNANEWS AGENCY i s a favori te cover I t was D Chao who opened the NCNA i nHong Kong, and as head of the news agency he automati cal l y became chi ef of the secret affai rs secti on ofthe Peki ng Uni ted Front organi zati on Apparentl y both Mao and the ml i tary were sati sfi ed wth hi s j obbecause Chao went fromHong Kong to the Mni stry of Forei gn Affai rs i n Peking where, despi te Red Guardterrori zi ng of many of hi s former comades, he i s stil l i n favor Chao was succeeded i n Hong Kong by asubversi on and i ntel l i gence special i st named Chang Ti h-sun, fromFuki en provi nce By al l accounts Changd d an excel l ent j ob, fromPeki ng' s vi ewpoi nt, i n getti ng Taiwan off i ci al s to defect, but hi s downfal l cawhen he sti rred up a tramway dri vers' stri ke whi ch fai l ed Forgotten were the Formsa off i ci al s he haddrawn i nto hi s web Overni ght Chang di sappeared, as though the earth had swal l owed him and i nto hi spl acemved a Peking I ntel l i gence Bureau chi ef whomthe Bri ti sh deported and whomPeking then di spatchedto I ndonesi a to j oi n the teamformng around Sukarno The next Peki ng boss to be i nstal l ed i n the Crown Colony was a man of importance Hs name was Wu Tih-chou and though, off i ci al l y, he was edi tor of a comparati vel y unimportant Red paper cal l ed the Wen WeiPao, he was real l y Deputy Secretary of the party for the whol e Hong Kong-Macao area, and he remained i nHong Kong unti l 1960, when Chi Fung, the ol d wartime Deputy Pol i ti cal Commssar of the East R ver Columnwho had bui l t up credi t wth Bri ti sh Intel l i gence and Ameri ca' s OSS by spi ri ti ng refugees through the J apl i nes, took over where he had left off some thi rteen years before Hs predecessor, Wu Tih-chou, i sreported to be i n pri son i n Peking, on charges that he cannot prove that hi s membershi p i n the party i sgenui ne The i nteresti ng thi ng about thi s l ong l i st of Maoi st1bosses in Hong Kong, each apparentl y asdi l i gent a fomenter of trouble as the others, i s that si x of themwere assi gned to the post i n thi rteenyears Of the fi ve who preceded the present boss, two are known to have been thrown i nto pri son, thefate of two others i s unknown, and one i s i n the mni stry of Forei gn Affai rs Career-wse, bei ng aPeki ng subversi on chi ef hol ds no promsing futureOf the lot, the mst powerful . i s undoubtedl y Chi Fung, the East R ver Column' s old Deputy Pol i ti calCommssar, who has ri dden the stormthrough al l the ups and downs of Chi nese pol i ti cs si nce 1960 Hsreturn to Hong Kong was on the express recommendati on of Chou En-lai Off i ci al l y he i s only DeputyManager of the ewChi na News Agency (NCNA) ; actual l y he i s head of the Uni ted Front mvement forthe Hong Kong-Macao area, and as such i n complete charge of penetrati ng enem organi zati ons and softeni ngup al l opponents He i s Branch Secretary of the Chi nese Communi st Party' s Hong Kong andMacao OverseasUni t, and one of the fewmenwho can stil l report di rectl y to Chai rman Mao, to Premer Chou En-lai , tothe Ml i tary Affai rs Commssi on (whi ch means to Li n Pi ao, Mao' s hei r, himel f) and to the CentralCommttee of the Chi nese Communist Party Chi Fung i s about 55 years ol d today He i s a quiet mn, of mediumbui l d and marri ed to a woman who i sal so Cantonese They have three chi l dren Chi Fung i s not a fi st-shaki ng, red book-wavi ng type of commui st He i s rather a qui et manwho shuns publ i ci ty and bel i eves that l ul l i ng the West i s a better way ofmaki ng headway thanl throwng everythi ng i nto headl i ne-maki ng ri ots In md-1967, when the Red l abor uni ontri ed to sei ze power i n Hong Kong, after the l i ne currentl y bei ng fol l owed i n China, i t was Chi Fung whopromptl y got a tel egramof authori ty fromChou En-l ai and brought themto heel He i s reported to havehad a hand i n qui eti ng the stormi n Macao al so Obvi ousl y hi s methods have been successful Dd not theNewYork Times of November 29, 1968, tel l us PEKINGSHOWNGNEWFLEXIBI LITY Concern for Worl d Opi niseen i n offer to U S.? The offer menti oned was a bri ef note to the effect that Peking and Ameri canrepresentati ves mght meet agai n i nWrsawon February 20 Ameri can benefi ts fromthe Warsawmeeti ngs have been ni l What Peking deri ved fromthemwas what shewanted mst assurance that Ameri ca would approve no ml i tary operati on agai nst the mainland by TaiwanThe hands of Army Chi ef Li n Pi ao were left free to crush Mao' s enemes at home and conti nue to ai d Hanoi

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BACKGROUNDTOBETRAYAL The Tragedy of Vi etnam by Hlai re du Berri er (316 pages, pri ce 5)fromH du B REPORTS, 3678 Gayburn Road, Pasadena, Cal i forni a 91107may be order

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THE FACES OF VIETNAMThi s report i s wi tten f romSai gon, a ci ty of mny faces Among those not preoccupi ed wth thprobl em of mere existence spreads a growng bewl derment Presi dent Nguyen van Thi eu l ong expressed the convi cti on that Ameri ca coul d not be pl anni ng to pul l out duri ng a respi te boughtby mki ng Saigon take the V etcong i nto the government - - i t would be agai nst Ameri ca' s i nteres

Nowa doubt i s begi nni ng to appear I t has not yet reached the point where an Ameri can conservati ve mghtask, wthout being l aughed at, What mkes you thi nk, M Presi dent, that the l eaders who deci ded on a polof no-wni smi n V etnamwere thi nki ng even remotely of Ameri ca' s i nterests? That seemngly anti -communi stAmeri ca mght have i n hi gh pl aces men dedi cated to the enem's i deol ogy i s i nconcei vabl e, or that men onwhomthe worl d' s future depends mght buy personal vi ctory at the pol l s at the pri ce of Ameri ca's defeat ithe worl dHanoi i s a ci ty of a singl e face -- a singl e voi ce Hanoi wants the Ameri cans out of South V etnamand agovernment there of Hanoi ' s choosi ng - - a government i n which communi sts, supported by a murderous under-ground network, wl l domnate non-communi st elements at wl l Hanoi i s wll i ng to compromse a l i ttle onAmeri ca' s pul l out The di fference of a year or two i s uni mportant Hanoi expects to wn by weari ng downour wll , whi l e Ameri cans wthi n Ameri ca press thei r government to yi el dAs morale crumbl es i n Saigon wth Ameri ca' s advance toward a sel l out, fi ghti ng i ncreases i nnorthern Thai l aSaigon knows that onl y a wni smwar i n South V etnamcan prevent another no-wni smwar i n Thai l and andanother and another, unti l al l Asi a i s ensl avedOur fi ghti ng men on airbases and i n i sol ated outposts and wth the Seventh Fleet at sea are forbi dden tospeak thei r thoughts A l are hel pl ess crewmembers aboard a shi p which i nepts or trai tors on the bri dgeare headi ng for the rocks, convi nced that thi s i s what the passengers want - - or ought to have The V etnamese of whomwe shal l speak have no way of reachi ng you They do not knowwhomto sppeal to i nAmeri ca, or how And you do not knowwhomto send encouragement to i n South V etnam or how to reach themPRESIDENT NGUYEN VAN THEU as we poi nted outaccepted as a presi denti al candi date by Ameri canbecame apparent that i t was i mpossi bl e to i nstal lgarded as more mnageabl e thanNguyen cao Ky, whobe won Once i n offi ce, the soft -spoken, sml i ngci pated, which i s to say that V etnamese patri otspl ans to buy a peaceful x t permt fromHanoi by

i n H du B Reports of November-December, 1968, was grudgi nglpol i ti cal agents i n V etnamonl y as a l ast resort, when i ta ci vi l i an team Presi dent Thi eu, we mde cl ear, was remde no secret of hi s determnati on that the war shoul dGeneral Thi eu became harder to handl e than had been anti -mde themel ves heard and he refused to go along wth ourfoi sti ng Hanoi ' s men on hi s government

Far East TV program of December 20 i n a broadcast worth ml l i ons of dol l ars to the V etcong, showedMcGovern smeari ng V ce Presi dent Ky as a Benedi ct Arnol d who sol d out hi s country to the French - - becausehe had not fought for Ho chi Mnh Thus an Ameri can senator parroted the Red l i ne that anyone who does notfi ght for Ho i s a trai tor

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I n a fury of frustrated rage Defense Secretary C ark C i ff ord l ashed out at the Saigon government forstal l i ng whi l e Ameri can boys were dying (TIME, December 27, 1968) Thi s fromone of the men who con-demned thousands of Ameri can boys to death by compl etely hal ti ng the bombing which gave themsome protecti oYour correspondent chatted wth Presi dent Thi eu at hi s recepti on i n the presidenti al pal ace on February 6 The presi dent of South V etnamhad no way of knowng that hundreds of thousands of Ameri cans who have novoi ce i n our press are ready to support hi m Howthen are Ameri cans goi ng to bri dge the Paci f i c and getthei r encouragement to him- One way i s to wite a l etter to hi s fr i endl y cl ose associ ate, Colonel LamPress Drector to the Presi dency, Le quy Don, Saigon I t wl l go di rectl y to Presi dent Thi eu' s deskTHE PRESENT LI NE OF COMMUNCATI ONS BETWEEN PRESIDENT THEUAND THE AMERICAN I N THE STREET i s through a di s-tort i ng fi l ter : the press I t i s another of the faces of Saigon There were some 500 peopl e i n the Kl i egl i ght- heated hal l of the Presi denti al Palace on February 6 A NewYork Times mn and a CBS tel evi si oncorrespondent wanted to know i f the Presi dent was goi ng to keep hi s pl edge of one mn-one vote, and i fthe Presi dent consi dered i t democrati c to threaten a cl amp-down on a monk who was expressi ng pro-V etcongsenti ments The questi ons put to the Presi dent were tri vi al Never was the vi tal questi on of defeat orvi ctory brought up or what Henry Cabot Lodge mght do in Pari s On everyone' s mnd was the J anuary 17i nterrogati on of M Lodge by the Senate Forei gn Rel ati ons Commttee M Lodge tol d the commttee, Idon' t thi nk I 'ma hard- l i ner You can' t be a hard- l i ner i f you have always sai d a ml i tary sol uti on (whichi s Washi ngtonese for vi ctory) i s not possi bl e Thi s i s what I ' ve always sai d si nce I ' ve been associ atedwth the V etnamese questi on

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Page 2What sort of defender of South V etnams i nterests or ours at the negoti ati ng tabl e i s that - - a man whotel l s the enemy i n advance that he has always thought we coul d not wn That bei ng the case, al l Hanoi hasto do i s stand f i rm thereby l eavi ng the al ready defeated negoti ator to chose between surrender at the HoteMaj esti c tabl e or on the battl ef i el d i n V etnamAfter Presi dent Thi eu and V ce President Ky, the man immedi ately concerned wth V etnams rel ati ons abroad

The two young men most prof i cient i n Engl i sh, i nterested i n what i s wi tten and thought by Ameri cans andclose to the Forei gn Mni ster i n Sai gon, are M Luu dank Du, D rector of Press and Informati on for theMni stry of Forei gn Affai rs, and M Tran cao Luan, the mni stry s thi rd secretary I f you were to tel lthemthe whol e gri mstory of howOtto Otepka tri ed to i nvesti gate hi ghl y pl aced of f i ci al s denounced as Redagents i n our government, and how i nstead of the suspected of f i ci al s bei ng i nvesti gated M Otepka wasousted, they would f i nd i t hard to bel i eve you Yet i f you ask themwhy they do not denounce, i f they cannot si l ence, M Tran van Dnh, they wl l avoi d adi rect repl y Tran van Dnh i s a Washi ngton V etnamese whomthe Ameri can Fri ends (Quakers) have passedoff as an ambassador and sent throughout Ameri ca, maki ng pro-Ho chi Mnh speeches whi l e the negoti ati onsare going on They wl l repl y, He was never an ambassador . Unexpressed i s the thought i n every V etnamemnd Tran van D nh would never have been permtted to bri ef reserve off i cers i n the Pentagon or tourAmeri ca maki ng treasonabl e speeches i f hi gh persons i n CIA were not behi nd him Yet, so great i s the l ackof communi cati ons between V etnamese and Ameri can anti -communi sts, to them i t i s i nconcei vable that theremght be a rel ati on between the muzzl i ng of Otto Otepka i n Washi ngton and the f l agrant subversi ve acti vi tyof Tran van Dnh The onl y way the Mni stry of Forei gn Aff ai rs has of expl ai ni ng i ts pol i ci es abroad orsel l i ng i ts point of vi ew i s through the Mni stry of I nformati onTHE MNSTRY OF I NFORMATION i s l ocated at 170 Phan di nh Phung street I ts recentl y resi gned ex-mni ster i sM Ton that Thi en who, as correspondent for the London ECONOMST, reported on October 2 1965, that thereason Major-General Edward Lansdal e was bei ng sent back to Sai gon was to remove Prime Mni ster Nguyen caoKy f rompower H du REPORTS, November-December, 1968)The present Mni ster i s a f i ne, no-nonsense sol di er named Nguyen ngoc An, who i s also Mni ster of Open Armthe programto encourage V etcong and North V etnamese deserti ons Hs Assi stant for Admni strati ve Affai rM Nguyen xuan Hue, speaks Engl i sh f l uentl y, as does M Hue s assi stant The job of thi s mni stry i s todeal wth the press i n Sai gon and make Sai gon s pol i cies and views known abroad through press attachesappointed to V etnamese embassi es There i s a great deal of di f ference between the duti es of thi s mni stry and Ameri ca s U S I nformati onServi ce When we were destroyi ng an anti -communi st named Tshombe i n the Congo, to pl ease a pro-Red namedMobutu crushi ng enemes of the Ngo di nh faml y i n V etnam and backing communi st terrori sts i n A geri a,our USIS was regarded abroad as hal f i ntel l i gence servi ce, hal f propaganda agency As set up under theEi senhower admni strati on by Arthur Larsen, who has si nce thrown off any pretense of bei ng anythi ng butthe enemy of al l persons to the ri ght of Wal ter Reuther, the USIS became a ponderous machi ne desi gned tosel l Ameri cans on pol i ci es decided upon behi nd closed doors by facel ess of f i ci al s, rather than to improveAmeri ca s image around the worl d The Mni stry of I nformati on s j ob i s not easy Beneath i t the ground i s rumbl i ng as V etnamese l anguagepapers, such as a recentl y suppressed dai l y owned by the ex-pol i ce chi ef, General Nguyen ngoc Loan, whomour press and tel evi sion smeared for shooti ng a terrori st duri ng l ast year s Tet offensi ve, stri ke out atthe Ameri cans i n repl y to high-handed acts of ours Rel ati ons wth Ameri can correspondents are not al ways smooth An AP correspondent i n Sai gon i nsists thatwe di d qui te ri ght by setti ng up Ho chi Mnh after Wrl d War I I We had to run out the French, he wl ltel l you On bei ng remnded that ki cki ng our al l i es out of thei r col oni es and bri ngi ng communi sts i n wasas senseless as our 1955 kni f i ng of the anti -communi st Cao Dai and Hoa Hao sects, he repl i es, They weren tanti -communi sts they were bri gands And the onl y reason they fought the communi sts was because they hada deal wth the French.Hs Excel l ency Nguyen ngoc An i ndi gnantl y observed, That s a l i e ama Cao Dai and we coul d haveprotected Tay Nnh.Because of the power of pol i ti cal l i f e and death whi ch press and TV correspondents wel d by bei ng abl e todecide, wthout a restrai ni ng hand f romanyone, what ml l i ons of Ameri cans are going to read and hear,many have become arrogant tyrants, thei r eval uati ons shaped by professors and j ournal i sts formed i n theRoosevel t years Some are treated wth more respect than others, such as the Los Angeles Times man i nSaigon, who i s preceded by a whi sper, Be careful , he i s Dean Rusk s brother-i n-l aw.THE ASIAN PEOPLE S ANTI -COMMUNST LEAGUE Part of the war i n V etnami s the propaganda war agai nst communiby whi ch the Mni stry of I nformati on tri es as best it can to mobi l i ze the support of anti -communi sts abroaTwo fronts, the ASIANPEOPLE S ANTI -COMMUNST LEAGUE (APACL) and i ts subsi di ary organi zati on, the WORLDANTI -COMMUNST LEAGUE (WACL), are the mni stry s pri nci pal arm i n thi s proj ect

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her support or l ack of support at theof hi s mni stri es i s the Mni ster of Pari s negoti ati ng tabl e i s Prime Mni ster I ran van Huong At theForei gn Affai rs

THE MNSTRY OF FOREIGNAFFARS i s at No 6 A exandre de Rhodes, i n Sai gon, a wde boul evard named afterthe pri est who i ntroduced cathol i ci smto I ndo-Chi na To whomwould an Ameri can wi te, i f he wanted to askfor i nformati on, or tel l thi s mni stry of hi s opposi ti on to a sel l out of V etnamat the negoti ati ng tabl e?

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Page 3Ori gi nal l y the V etnamchapter of the APACL was set up as a publ i c rel ati ons front for the brothers, Demand Nhu I t was used to sel l V etnams rul i ng faml y to the Ameri can R ght as anti -communi st s, whi l e l abouni ons, l efti st wri ters and the NEWLEADER, the of f i ci al organ of the AFL-CO sol d themto the Ameri canLeft as soci al i sts Amost three years ago a wder front, the WORLD ANTI -COMMUNST LEAGUE (WACL) was formed and there i s noreason to bel i eve that the two are not now tryi ng to do the j ob whi ch the publ i c i s tol d they are doing I t i s true, however, that they are sti l l stuck w th many of the del egates the old publ i c rel ati ons fronttook up Some of those brought to Saigon l ast December were val i d l eaders, others were not Of i ci al sdi recti ng the two organi zati ons have no way of weedi ng out the f ree-l oaders who are using them The probli s to reach sol i d peopl e wth fol l owngs i n other countri es who can ba of useThe APACL has chapters i n a number of Asi an nati ons I n Formosa i t i s headed by M Ku Cheng-kang and i tsoff i ce i s at 1707 Chung Cheng Road, Taipei , Taiwan Republ i c of China The Sai gon chapter i s at 122 Hongthap Tu, under the chai rmanshi p of Dr Phan huy Quat, who unti l Marshal Nguyen cao Ky sei zed power i n J une1965 was Prime Mni ster of South V etnam He may be reached through P 0 Box 575, i n SaigonI t i s well to remember, i n studying the anti -communi st struggl e, that soci al i sts are al so marxi sts, andwhen a soci al i st or one of Wl ter Reuther' s l abor delegates -- I rvi ng Brown, for i nstance - - puts on abreast-beati ng show of anti -communi st ml i tancy, what they are real l y doing i s tryi ng to wn the supportof those they are both out to dest roy in thei r stri ctl y famly fi ght There i s opposi ti on, but wthi n thef ramework of two marxi st facti ons competi ng for power Wen communi sts l aunch an attack on our free enter-pri se system which they refer to as capi tal i sm the soci al i sts are thei r al l i es Thi s expl ai ns the ferocw th whi ch soci al i sts and communi sts together tear the non-social i st anti -Red to shreds, and see that theopposi ti on to communi smi s named by themel ves FromDecember 16 t o 20, 1968, over a hundred i nvi ted guests converged on Saigon for the second conferenceof the WCAL and the 14th conference of the APACL The travel i ng expenses of many of themand the hotelexpenses of al l were paid by the Mni stry of I nformati on, through the APACL Representi ng France was Madame Suzanne Labin, whomSteve A len, of the Ameri can tel evi sion Left, prai ses ihi s book, Letter to a Conservati ve, as the sort of soci al i st who shoul d be runni ng the anti -communi stf i ght The Dcti onnai re de la Pol i ti que Francai se (publ i shed by Henry Coston, 27 rue de 1'Abbe Gregoi re,Pari s V , 1088 pages, 21 i ncludi ng postage) l ists Madame Labi n as a ml i tant soci al i st . I n THE WANDERERof February 24, 1966, Madame Labin i ndi gnantl y deni ed charges that the V etnamese government had ever gi veher a free trip to Saigon My travel expenses were covered, she sai d, not by the Vi etnamese governmentbut by the Asi an Peopl e' s Anti -Communi st League, which i nvi tes me every year to i ts congresses .That money comes fromus, exclaimed Assistant Mni ster Nguyen xuan Hue i n the Mni stry of I nformati on,on February 6, 1969 Si tt i ng i n a seat reserved for the del egate fromthe Uni ted States when the December congress ended was aChicago sponsor of Madame Labin who i n 1957 was barred frompracti ci ng l aw i n I l l i noi s because of hi scommuni st record, as fi l es of the I l l i noi s Bar Associati on wl l attest At present the V etnamese mst determned to ri d the APACL and WACL of soci al i sts usi ng the Mni stry ofI nformati on as a vehi cle, and unknown quanti ti es presenti ng l etterheads pri nted by themel ves as proofthat they have ef fecti ve organi zati ons behind them i s General Ton that Dnh E ected to South V etnamssenate in last year' s el ecti ons and al so publ i sher of a newspaper, he i s l i kel y to pl an an important rol ei n shapi ng events i n the months aheadGENERAL TONTHAT DNH (pronounced Ton taaht deen) was ml i tary governor of Saigon at the time of theNovember 1, 1963, coup d' etat which deposed the Ngo dinh brothers, Demand Nhu On hi s adherence to thegroup of general s under General Mnh (Bi gMnh) pl otti ng the coup i ts success depended Associ ated w thhimnow i n publ i shing the dai l y CONGLUAN i s another of the November 1 1963, pl otters, General Tran vanDon General Don' s account of the coup, the reasons behi nd i t and the assassi nati on of Demand Nhu,against formal orders, by a man whose faml y had been tortured by Nhu' s pol i ce, i s to be found i n theApri l 18, 1968, i ssue of the Pari s weekl y MNUTE, (12 rue du Croi ssant, Pari s 2I t i s unl i kel y that any Ameri can conservati ve knows the name and address of a singl e South V etnamesesenator Should an Ameri can wsh to send i nformati on to Senator Ton that Dnh, for ei ther hi s paper orhi s f i ght on the senate f l oor, he may be addressed i n care of the Senate, Hoi Truong Hong Pal ace, BenChuong Duong, Sai gon, Republ i c of South V etnamTHE PHENOMENON OF SAGON THNKING i s a subj ect that woul d f i l l a book Seldomi s the man i n the street' sassessment of cause and effect behind Ameri ca' s decisi ons correct Ameri ca as a whole i s seen asferoci ousl y anti -communi st , our no-wni smpol i cy notw thstandi ng How can one reproach Dr Phan buy Quatfor the sort of peopl e he bri ngs to Saigon on the Mni stry of I nformati on' s mney, to attend the APACL andWACL' s conferences? V etnamese have no way of knowng who can help themi n Ameri ca and who cannot Vaguel y they know that, once out of Asi a, the Ameri cans w l l never come back There i s no suspi cion thatfeedi ng boys i nto a no-wnwar, year af ter year, mght have been to make war appear more horri bl e than i ti s -- to prove i rrefutabl y that war settl es nothing - - which i s true if those pretendi ng to wage war pre-vent i ts settl i ng anythi ng I t has not yet dawned on the Vi etnamese that a possibl e reason for l ett i ngyoung sol di ers die i n a struggl e they were not permtted to wn mght have been to convince Ameri can boysthat wars settl e nothi ng, and so make themrefuse to take up arm some day i n defense of themel ves, much

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Page 4l ess Asi ans on the other si de of the worl d There has been a rel entl ess dri ve to smear anyone who mghtput such thoughts i n our al l i es' heads The day af ter Presi dent Thi eu' s press conference of February 6, the Paci f i c Edi t i on of Stars and Stri peswas open on the desks of Sai gon of f i ci al s at a page featuri ng a story i n which Bob Considi ne tore RobertWel ch and the J ohn Bi rch Soci ety to shreds for questi oni ng the i ntegri ty of such Nxon appointees asHenry Ki ssi nger (Stars & Stri pes, Paci f i c Edi ti on, APO 96503, San Franci sco .I f the j ournal of Ameri ca's f i ghti ng men brands Ameri ca' s l eadi ng anti -commni st a kook and hi s soci ety abunch of l unati c extremsts, who then are the V etnamese going to trust? I t would do no good to tel lSaigon mni sters and thei r secretari es that M Consi dine was doing a hatchet j ob They would want to knowwhy he di d i t and why Stars & Stri pes publ i shed i t One way to penetrate the wal l of bl ank i ncomrehensi onwoul d be to repri nt Bob Consi di ne' s col umn of October 17, 1956, I NSIDE STATE DEPARTMENT - I ndo-China PayofHere Ameri cans were tol d that through our bri l l i ant pol i ci es i n Southeast Asi a the war agai nst commni smhad been won and a perfect V etnamstate, happy prosperous and permanent, was i n pl ace V etnamese knowpersonal l y and onl y too wel l that the opposi te was the case, but thi s nowdi scredi ted account i s never gointo reach a Sai gon desk THE I NSULATION PROCESS Part of the tragedy of the downhi l l road i n V etnami s the ruthl essness wth whi chan i nsidi ous machi ne ef fecti vel y cuts the V etnamese off f romany Ameri can who arri ves wth a message ofsupport, or desi re to put V etnamese of f i ci al s i n touch wth Ameri cans who mght rai se voices i n thei rbehal f Si l entl y wheels are set i nmti on to close doors and cut himoff Those he tal ks to are f ri ghteneout of a second encounter through an omnous warning that he i s bei ng fol l owed Wy, they never knowI f he ref l ects that Ameri can meddlers had no busi ness exposi ng Sai gon and Chol on to commni st attack bycrushing General Le van V en' s pri vate Bi nh Xuyen arm, whi ch protected the capi tal , a rumr i s spreadthat he i s bei ng pai d by the Bi nh Xuyen I f he states that whether V etnamhad an emeror or not wasV etnams af fai r, and not that of a facel ess group wthi n State Department, those he tal ks to wl l recei vea warni ng that he worki ng for the ex-Emeror Every sort of i ntimdati on i s used One of the best examl es of this sort of thi ng i s to be found i n George Schuyl er' s touchi ng arti cl e onhi s daughter, Phi l i ppa, i n Ameri can Opini on Magazi ne of March, 1969 Here George tol d howsubordi natesi n the Ameri can embassy di d everything possibl e to speed her departure fromV etnam howPhi l i ppa wasfol l owed al l over the country i n a way to whi ch no other correspondent was exposed, before her untimel ydeath Numerous ef forts were made to hamer her report ori al work and spy on her, her father wrote Phi l i ppawas a dedi cated anti -commni st who di d not hesi tate to tel l the V etnamese what Ameri can pol i cy i n V etnamhad been si nce the Roosevel t regime The purpose of war i s to wn, she i nsi sted Tacti cs whi ch wearout the acti ve potenti al of the f i ghti ng man generate fut i l i ty. The patri ots of V etnamhad to be pre-vented froml earni ng that there are Ameri cans who feel l i ke thi s, so Phi l i ppa was i nsul ated by a cordonof warnings and watchers To counter this sort of blackout one mst knowwho i s behind i t That one never preci sel y l earns TheAmeri can emassy? V etcong symathi zers? Entrenched off i ci al s, i denti fyi ng some game of thei r own wthwhat i s good for the country? No one knows I t i s a cl oud that closes around and behind such peopl e asPhi l i ppa I t would recede for a certai n di stance i f she attemted to touch i t, then cl ose i n when shewthdrewher handTOSUM I T UP Onl y i f Ameri cans who oppose handi ng Asi a over to the Reds through a coal i ti on governmenti n South V etnamget together wth V etnamese who feel the same way can the Red ti de be stopped The fi rststep toward getti ng together mst be a mve to hal t the dri ve to keep you apart

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BACKGROUND TO BETRAYAL - The Tragedy of V etnam by H l ai re du Berri er (316 pages, pri ce 5) may be orderedfromH du B REPORTS, 3678 Grayburn Road, Pasadena, Cal i forni a 91107

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A TRUE STORY FROMKONGKONGI t woul d take a book to hol d everything we woul d l i ke tput i n thi s i ssue, which ends the el eventh year of H DB REPORT S exi stence We coul d start wth a conversati n Tokyo i n whi ch C A and ASIA FOUNDATI ON the organi zati onwhose thi rteen fi el d representati ves are regardedtol erated as C A operati ves, came up The San Franci scbased cover foundati on was set up i n 1954 wth a strosmel l of the now i nfamous I NSTI TUTE OF PAC FI C RELATI ONSabout i t I n fact, ol d IPR Presi dent, J Wal l ace Sterlof Stanford Uni versi ty, i s a trustee and among hi s col -l eagues are El l sworth Bunker, presentl y on l eave asambassador to South V etnam Caryl Haskins, Presi dent of Carnegi e I nsti tute ; Grayson K rk of Columbia Uni versi

Wal ter Mall ory, former Executi ve D rector of the Counci l on Forei gn Rel ati ons ; and Harvard s peti ti oner for acoal i ti on government i n South V etnam Professor Edwn 0 Reischauer, who i s al so a veteran of the I PRKennedy sent Rei schauer to Tokyo to open a di al ogue wth the J apanese Left, the wel l -i nformed gentl eman wthwhomwe were speaki ng observed What Ameri ca gai ned by i t no one has ever been abl e to understand Si nceAmeri ca s f ri ends i n J apan are on the R ght, i t shoul d be sel f -evi dent that encouragi ng and st rengtheni ng theJ apanese Left coul d onl y hasten the defeat of Ameri ca s f ri ends He (Reischauer) was a J apanophi l e who thoughtJ apan coul d do no wong Hs J apanese wfe was a better Ameri can than he was Hs close relati onshi p wth thJ apanese Left l ed to the steppi ng up of student demonstrati ons against anything Rei schauer di d not l i ke They,wth hi s compl i ci ty or not, became hi s armagainst the war i n V etnam Ameri can bases i n J apan and retenti on oOki nawa I f Ameri ca were to pul l out of V etnamtomorrow di smantl e her bases and gi ve Oki nawa back to the J athey woul d f i nd somethi ng el se to yel l about The anti -Ameri can demonstrati ons real l y have nothi ng to do wthV etnamor J apanese bases or Oki nawa these are onl y pretexts i n a Red war against Ameri caThen there was a conversati on wth an ai rl i ne captai n which must be repeated for the i nsi ght i t gi ves i nto whatthe men hol di ng the fate of pl anes ful l of passengers thi nk as theywng thei r way over the Chi na Sea I shuevery time I read of another hi -j acki ng to Cuba, he sai d I wsh the papers wouldn t wi te about them Forsomeday i t has to happen -- some nut i s goi ng to take i t i nto hi s head to make a bi g story by comng up f rontorderi ng us to head for Red Chi na When i t happens, i f I mthe man i n the seat knowwhat I mgoi ng to doSAGON Secretary of Defense Lai rd went there and returned wth a gemof wsdom I f Ameri cans were to pul l othe South V etnamese woul d not be abl e to stand al one, sai d he O course they woul d not, M Lai rd Duri ngperi od when Mke Mansf i el d was approvi ng the destructi on of rel i gi ous forces and regi onal l eaders who refusedaccept the l eader he and J usti ce Dougl as had el ected for South V etnambetween themel ves, at a l uncheon oneday i n Washi ngton (See HARPERS, J anuary 1956), we swept the tabl e cl ean of the men and groups who formed a barrto the Reds The sensibl e thi ng to do, M Lai rd, woul d be to start bui l di ng themup agai n Ater he had cl eed the fi el d for Hanoi and the V etcong, Mke Mansf i el d decided Ameri ca shoul d pul l out Unfortunatel y, M Lai rd was never permtted to talk to anyone i n Sai gon who mght have tol d himthese thi ngs, or who mght haveconfronted himwth an unpal atabl e real i ty Sendi ng boys agai nst an enemy that ki l l s, and tel l i ng themthey mnot try to wn because our aimi s to di scourage the enemy, not defeat him teaches the enemy onl y one thi ng Namel y, that pati ence pays Hol d out l ong enough and TIME Magazi ne and Mke Mansf i el d wl l convince Ameri ca twe cannot wn This is the onl y l esson we have taught SI NGAPORE Agai n, a book coul d be wi tten on Si ngapore and the rabbl e-rousi ng Chi nese Pri me Mni ster who yourpress would have you bel i eve has seen the l i ght and become a conservati ve anti -communi st, now that he i s facedwth the real i ty of Chi nese expansi oni smand Bri ti sh wthdrawal by the end of 1971Lee Kuan-yew known as Harry Lee, domnates the 224-square-ml e ci ty state through hi s extreme Left Peopl esActi on Party (PAP) Powerl ess and servi ng onl y as a sop to Singapore s Mal aysi an mnori ty i s Presi dent Yussaf,whomLee huml i ates i n publ i c Behi nd the arrogant Chi nese Prime Mni ster but ever-present, even on formaloccasi ons, i s the unkempt, unshaven, coatl ess and ti e-l ess Bri ti sher, Aex J osey, who serves as a combi nati ongray emnence and l ocal Arthur Schl esi nger, J r So di sturbi ng are J osey s red record and acti ons to Singapoanti -communi st nei ghbors, J osey i s barred fromenteri ng Malaysi a when Lee Kuan-yewgoes to Kuala Lumpur to vi sthe sumptuous home he bought there Whether hi s home was acqui red as a pl ace of potenti al refuge i f hi s ownpol i ci es backf i re on him or a future command post i n preparati on for the day when he i s ready to mobi l i ze theChi nese i n nei ghbori ng countri es and enl arge hi s domai n under Peking s support, no one can say

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e 2As Ameri ca dri fts l eftward toward a sel l -out i n V etnambehind a newy-el ected Republ i can President, the campaii s stepped up on one hand to accord Lee Kuan-yewrespectabi l i ty and on the other to bri ng himand hi s shadowyadvi sor i nto some game of the Ameri can Left which i s sl owy taki ng shape On March 1 twenty-f i ve top-l evelAmeri can busi nessmen, bei ng sol d the TIME Magazi ne l i ne, were made to feel important by bei ng the guests of LeeKuan-yew shepherded by ei ghteen TIME Magazi ne executi ves Those who weigh the true state of aff ai rs i n Asi aagainst TIME s steadi l y deteri orati ng report i ng are apprehensive Nor were they encouraged when they read (TIMMarch 21, 1969) that on thei r return to Ameri ca TIME s f l ock of busi ness men gathered around the l arge coff i n-shaped tabl e i n the Cabi net Roomof the White House to report thei r observati ons and reacti ons to Presi deNxon. So TIME, whi ch supported J ohnson i n 1964, i s now through TIME-guided busi ness men attempti ng to shapNxon s Asi an pol i ci es On March 3 two days after the TIME j unket, i t was Massachusetts I nsti tute of Technol ogy s turn to herd i ntoSi ngapore what the STRAITS TIMES descri bed as a top teamof Ameri can brai ns i n engi neeri ng and technology fortwo-week study of Singapore s devel opment probl em at the i nvi tati on of the Pri me Mni ster, M Lee Kuan-yew Unmenti oned was MT s current campai gn to prevent Ameri can sci enti sts fromcontri buti ng to Ameri ca s defenses,campai gn that i s treasonable i n the l i ght of the al l -out dri ve for weapons of destructi on bei ng pushed i n Red bcountri es Accompanying the engi neeri ng and technol ogy special i sts desti ned to hear the declarati ons Al ex J osehad wri tten for Lee Kuan-yewwere MT s pol i ti cal sci ence professor, Lucien Pye, and a representati ve of CarnegI nsti tute KUALA LUMPUR The capi tal of Mal aysia, wth i ts sl ender mnarets and l ush hi l l s dotted by the scars of ti n mni s another story Never di sparage here what apostl es of the vi rtue of bei ng bi g enough to accept defeat sneeat as the domno theory The Malaysi ans know that i f Ameri ca settl es for tryi ng to teach Hanoi a l esson - - andthrough Lefti st pressure at home does not have the wl l to accompl i sh that -- they wl l be next i n l ine Askwhat they are going to do when Bri tai n pul l s out of the Ori ent at the end of 1971 and they wl l tel l you that tal l i ntents and purposes the Bri ti sh have al ready gone Mal aysi a s 66-year-ol d Prime Mni ster, the Tunku AbdulRahman, had the courage to chuckl e at the absurdi ty of i t al l as he sat among cases of foreign decorati ons andphotos of himel f shaki ng hands wth Heads of State and tol d howWashington blocked hi s attempt to buy modern jfi ghters fromCanada when the Phi l i ppi nes threatened hi s 700-man army in Sabah wth an i nvasi on force of 20,000men backed wth Ameri can-provi ded equi pment Washi ngton s excuse was that Ameri ca does not want to start anarm race BANGKOK A fewdays l ater, Thai l and s Mni ster ofl Foreign Affai rs, the abl e M Thanat Khoman, who for ten yearshas gui ded Thai l and through troubl ed waters, di scussed the si tuati on i n Southeast Asi a wth your correspondent Hs statements woul d have warmed your hearts He had no i l l usi ons about the Ameri can Left The cal i bre of menwho have been gi ven appointments to Southeast Asi an posts for no other reason than to l end weight to the state-ments they woul d make i n support of sui cidal pol i ci es when they returned home was no secret to himThere was onl y one bl urred spot i n the Forei gn Mni ster s excel l ent vi sion And i t unfortunatel y, i s common tthe best of Asi an l eaders They have never had contact wth Ameri cans other than those of the scurryi ng, ubi quitous and pushi ng Left They knownothing, asi de fromthe di sparagi ng reports they have read, of the Ameri canR ght, which, i n a pi nch, woul d be thei r al l i es The story that needs to be told to Ameri can patri ots i s theneed of Asi a s l eaders to know the truth about you, and to meet enough of your correspondents to know that therei s a counter-bal ance to Harr i son Sal i sbury and CBS The Asi an l eader has no yardsti ck for measuri ng Ameri cansaccorded stature by a l i beral press Cabot Lodge, bei ng an ari stocrat by bi rth, must, by thei r reasoning, be aconservati ve i n pol i ti cs What i s soci al l y acceptabl e accordi ng to the worl dwde l efti st press must be embracedpol i ti cal l y by the Asi an conservati ve, l est he offend that powerf ul press Thus Thai l and s estimable Mni sterForei gn Affai rs ends up by becomng Chai rman of the Bangkok branch of the J ohn F Kennedy Foundati on, which, mrthan anything i t accompl i shes for handicapped chi l dren, serves the pol i ti cal aim of a Kennedy opposed to every-thi ng Thai l and s Mni ster of Forei gn Affai rs holds dear I t l i ke the f l ood of streets, parks, avenues, boul e-vards, ai rports, school s, peni nsul as, monuments, coi ns and stamps, i s gri st for a mnster propaganda machi ne,enhancing di nners and bal l s where head tabl es occupied by ambassadors and cel ebri ti es are used to l ure societyedi tors i nto becomng producers of gratui tous tinsel , for a party, a pol i ti cal movement and a faml yHonest men l i ke Thai l and s Forei gn Mni ster, as l ocal chai rmen, provi de respectabi l i ty abroad for the foundati oout to di spatch more Reischauers to undermne everythi ng they represent At home a sister foundati on to the onewhich Forei gn Mni ster Thanat Khoman makes respectable i n Bangkok serves as a tax-free accounti ng department topay bi l l s for the faml y usi ng i t as an upward-bound transmssion bel t A book coul d be wri tten on the craft i -ness wth which the faml y and hangers-on behi nd Teddy have advanced themel ves at home by going i nternati onal These are vignettes of stori es that coul d fi l l pages of our report thi s month, but i nstead of devel opi ng themweare goi ng to tel l you a story about a faml y that once l i ved i n Shanghai I t i s a story that the head of thatfamly told in Hong Kong one ni ght, over a l ong reuni on dinner whi ch fol l owed twenty-three years of separati onJOHNS STORY J ohn s l i f e woul d have been the humdrumstory of hundreds of thousands of Chinese condemned, asfar as forei gners are concerned, to anonymty, i f a Canadi an named A R St Loui s, a man who was a wzard atradi o communi cati ons, had not spotted himfor hi s i ntel l i gence and i ntegri ty when he was a boy I t was St Louiwho taught J ohn how to make, repai r and operate radi os Thereafter hi s fortunes rose and f el l wth St Loui s ,and when St Loui s took over the servi ci ng of Nati onal i st Chi nese underground radi o stati ons i n J apanese-occupieterritory, J ohn was carri ed al ongwth himJ ohn s boss and benefactor had the advantage of bei ng a forei gner, whi ch meant that he commanded more respect anmney, but J ohn, bei ng Chinese, had the advantage of bei ng facel ess Consequentl y, J ohn coul d work for St Loui

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Page 3i n the open, workaday worl d -- t i l l the day St Loui s and hi s faml y boarded a Canadi an Paci f i c steamer one j umahead of the Chinese puppet government s assassi ns -- and, on the si de, for a network operati ng for the ChiangKai -shek government i n Chungki ng J ohn was a sl ender young man then, eager to i mprove hi s Engl i sh and l earnforeign ways and manners that would mark himas urbane amng hi s Chinese acquai ntances He would si t wth ear-phones on hi s head, over the key of a radi o transmtter haul ed out of a cl othes cl oset or cupboard i n the stri nof shabby apartments i nto and out of whi ch I was constantl y mving, always a j ump ahead of J apanese radi o de-tectors I n one such apartment, on Avenue Hai g, the transmtter key and recei ver were conceal ed i n a f i repl acewth the antennae wres comng down the chimney, but actual transmssion, through the compl i ci ty of Chi nese memof a shi p-to-shore radi o crewi n the offi ce of a Bri ti sh steamhi p l i ne on the Bund, took pl ace fromsai d compadowntown off i ces Connecti on was establ i shed between key and transmtter by cal l i ng the Bri ti sh fi rms radi oman on the pri vate tel ephone l i ne that had been i nstal l ed between my pl ace and him unbeknownst to hi s empl oyerAt di fferent ti ms, prearranged by code, J ohn would tap out a message for Chungki ng i n the for noon and anotheri n the ft rnoon or eveni ng, but he or some other member of hi s famly would recei ve messages for l onger peri odduri ng the day They were al l rel ated, as i nsurance agai nst betrayal to the J apanese Wen messages came i nthey were turned over to a cool i e, a mre di stant member of thei r faml y, who would take themto a cousi n employed at the recepti on desk i n a neutral consul ate He in turn would pass themto cool i e used by the facel eNati onal i sts whomwe never sawThese were the thi ngs about whi ch J ohn remni sced as we sat i n a Chinese restaurant i n Hong Kong, near a tabl eof Ameri can sai l ors who, despi te Harri son Sal i sbury s pl ea that the Bri ti sh refuse to l et themi n, were enj oyi na rest- and-recreati on l eave fromwaters off V etnam Some of the Chinese whose acts of dari ng, done wthoutchange of expression or the fl i cker of an eye, we di scussed, are sti l l al i ve and unable to get out of the cruelcountry wth whi ch Teddy Kennedy would l i ke to promte a greater fl owof i deas, so we wl l pass over themherHow are your wfe and chi l dren, J ohn? natural l y came fi rst He was obvi ously proud They are fi ne My wfi s here and my daughter i s marri ed and teachi ng i n Rhode I sl and She has a Ph D. and my son marri ed an Ameri c

gi rl and has a fel l owshi p at Rockefel l er I nsti tute, i n nuclear physics . I t was a far cry fromthe young ChineSt Loui s had pi cked up and hel ped to acqui re an educati on i n Shanghai i n the earl y thi rti es Dd J ames Lee get out? He was a fri end of the old underground rad o~days i n Shanghai No He became off i cemanager i n the Tel ecommuni cati ons Ofi ce for Anwhei Province, after the war The Russi ans and Red Chi nese wereorgani zing uni ons amng the tel egraphers and tryi ng to sabotage communi cati ons, so the higher-ups i n Nanki ngtol d J ames to shi p troubl e-makers off to remte posts i f they showed thei r hands Wen the col l apse came, i twas everyone for himel f J ams bosses took off for Formsa and he was the fi rst one denounced by the men hehad transferred The Reds sentenced himto death, then l eft himi n a pri son for several months He never knewwhen he would be taken out and shot After a fewmonths they tol d hi mthey had deci ded to try to make a usefulci ti zen out of him and he was gi ven the brain-washing treatment Wen that was fi ni shed, they put himto workat hard l abor and worked hi munti l he di ed.Howdi d you get out?I t took me a year and a hal f Thi ngs weren t so bad at fi rst had a smal l business whi ch I hated to l eave,and they (the Reds) tol d business men to carry on, that they wouldn t be harmed But after awhi l e they startedclosing i n, and I found I was worki ng for them managed to get permssi on to go to Hong Kong by l eavi ng behimy wfe wth our daughter, who was having l ots of troubl e wth asthma She coul dn t breathe, and doctors tol dus we should send her to Peking, where the cl imate was dri er .Pi ctures of Peking and the hot, dry wnd off the Gobi Desert came back John paused ref l ecti vel y A gri n croshi s face Do you remember the l i t t le back bedroomwe had i n the house near J essfi el d Park?W were very poor when started worki ng for St Lou s and we rented that roomout The woman who l i ved therefor years was Chi ang Ching She was marri ed to Tong Nga then, the fel l ow fromSoochowwho has a restaurant i n

Pari s They di dn t have much mney Chiang Chi ng coul dn t get parts as an actress, so she used to l i e on herbed, eati ng oranges and readi ng about i nj usti ces to the poor She di dn t have enough money to pay the amah toclean the roomfor her and go out to buy oranges, so she made a deal The amah made her bed every morning andwent to the food stall for her, to buy oranges, and Chiang Ching taught the amah mandari nShe (Chi ang Ching) had a bad di sposi t i on She made scenes wth her husband and he would get mad and beat her

Then she would cal l to the amah for hel p One ti m, after a fi ght, she packed up and went back to Tsinan, i nShantung.A pause fol l owed She came fromShantung After a fewdays her husband got l onel y and went to bri ng her backbut Chiang Ching had her fri ends watchi ng for him Wen she l earned he was i n town she hi d, tel l i ng her motherto say that she hadn t heard fromher and di d not knowwhere she was .The husband di d not argue He went back to a smal l hotel where he was stayi ng and thought i t over He got an

; i dea He put an announcement i n the paper, tel l i ng hi s wfe he l oved her and that i f she di d not come back hewould commt sui cide and haunt her .She went to hi s hotel then, and they came back to Shanghai together, to our pl ace But eventual l y they brokeup for good and she took her books about the poor and went off to join the communi st s i n Shensi and Yenan, and

that was the l ast we heard of her unti l one day we l earned that she was l i vi ng wth Mao Tse-tung and that Gene

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Hurl ey was arrangi ng for themto go to Chungki ng to talk to Chiang Kai -shek I t wasFromthen on she became more and more important .

She and Mao were i n Peking when we sent ourto l ook after our daughter and one day, l i keMadame Mao asking i f she remembered them Athemto where Chiang Chingbecome ; then she gave them

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She had two daughters by Mao and when the Reds came to Shanghai , af ter the Nati onal i sts l eft , she was tooimportant to see peopl e who knewher when shewas poor and Tong Nga was gi vi ng her beati ngs But she had notyet become so bad, ei ther She had not started to round up cabaret managers who had refused to gi ve her j obs and actresses who got parts shewanted.daughter northtwo ki ds, theyfewdays l aterand Mao were l i vi ng She serveda basket of oranges and sent ; them

That was the l ast ti me they sawher As she became more sure of hersel f, she began l ooki ng for peopl e wth whshe had scores to settl e, and i t was dangerous to knowher because one never knewwhat di recti on her rages mghtake Everyone who had ever known her began to get as far away as possibl e St i l l , on one more occasi on shewas useful My daughter coul d not sl eep one ni ght so she and the amah were pl ayi ng mah j ongg Sol di ers whostopped in the street to l i sten outsi de doors heard the mah j ongg pi eces bei ng scrambl ed I t was the peri odwhen they were begi nni ng to fri ghten peopl e and cl amp down on amusements One of the sol di ers cl imbed up onthe roof and removed ti l es whi l e the others guarded the door ; then he dropped down into the roomand threatenedto arrest my daughter and the amah for gambl i ng My daughter was fri ghtened and pretended she was studying, butthe amah tol d himthey were fri ends of Madame Mao and that, besi des, they were not gambl i ng but were onl y passitime because the l i t tle gir l was sick.The amah di d not have any way of provi ng that she knewMadame Mao, but the sol di ers were so fri ghtened that thone who came in through the roof said, I f you are a fri end of Madame Mao you shoul d not amuse yourselves ; youshoul d be working for the revol uti on, ' and wth that they went awayPeopl e were bei ng arrested on al l kinds of pretexts then Lots of mywas time to get away .Howdid you manage i t, J ohn?

Chiang Ching' s bi g moment

for treatment for her asthma The amah went alongdi d not knowwhat to do so they wote a l etter toa car ful l of sol di ers came to the house and tookthemtea and showed themhow important she hadhome, escorted by the sol di ers .

fri ends were di sappeari ng and knew i t

Wel l , got permssion to go to Hong Kong by l eavi ngmy wfe behi nd Then she got permssion to j oi n me byl eavi ng our son and daughter behind We coul d not take anything wth us, but we got out of Chi na and went toI ndonesi a I t was the peri od when Mao was tryi ng to bui l d up a strong Chinese communi ty under Sukarno andconvince the Chi nese i n I ndonesi a that the Peking government was kind Bymaki ng a request fromJakarta for ourchi l dren to come and j oi n us i n I ndonesi a we not onl y got permssi on for themto l eave, but they were abl e tobri ng the ol d pai nti ngs and art obj ects we had col l ected.As soon as they reached Hong Kong I stopped themand put them i n school They were soon at the head of thei rclass and after that we sent them to Ameri ca where they graduated wth honors, and my daughter got her Ph D anmy son the fel l owshi p i n Rockefel l er I nsti tute .Howstrange i t i s, J ohn, refl ected, that your son and daughter ended up i n Ameri can uni versi ti es among l eftwng professors and students who tal k dri vel about Mao Tse-tung and Red China and get i nto pri nt wth thei rravi ngs And of the l ot your chi l dren are the onl y ones who actual l y knewChiang Ching and the terror of l i fei n China, and howhard i t i s to get out .Yes, he answered They wi te and tel l me about i t They tel l me that when the other professors tal k theydon' t say anything They j ust keep stil l They have to l i ve, and i f they want to keep thei r j obs they don' tdare say anything about what they know

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MONTH OF DEC SIONFRANCE Back i n Europe agai n after three months i n Southeast Asia, we fi nd Fri s sti l l the center of a Wstern European storm General De Gaul l e announcedhe was going to hol d a referendumon Apri l 27 The publ i c reacti on was a groaNo, not again as a government-control l ed radi o, TV and press began prepari nthe terrai n THE FRENCH ELECTORATE WAS TOBE ASKED ONCE MORE FOR A MASSIVE YES fai l i ng wthe General threatened to pack up and go home YES woul d mean approval of anebulous pl an to bri ng about decentral i zati on - - meani ng a pl an that, i t washoped, woul d turn the popul ati on fl ow fromPari s back to the provi nces Decenl i zati on woul d be accompl i shed i n the name of regi onal i sm which means that real groups woul d forma body to regul ate thei r own affai rs To permt thi s takover of the Senate's duti es, a change i n the consti tuti on whi ch De Gaul l e promgated i n 1958 and modi fi ed i n 1960, 62 and 63 i s necessary

Anti -Gaul l i sts protest that the rol e of a parl i ament i s to vote l aws, and that a provi nci al assembl y i n eachregi on, subj ected to the whim of 29 ml l i on regi onal voters wthout j uri di cal or admni strati ve experi ence, mf l atter the provi ncial i deas of voters at odds wth every regi on but thei r own, but i t wl l depri ve the nati onSenate of any reason for exi sti ng Furthermore, the proposed change i n the consti tuti on woul d provide that,i nstead of the President of the Senate becomng i nterimPresident i n the event of a presi denti al vacancy, thatpost, wth al l the power that control of propaganda and pol i ce machi nery entai l s, woul d be fi l l ed by the PrimeMni ster, who mght be anyone an ai l i ng or reti ri ng Presi dent names The el ectorate was at once suspi ci ous part of the campai gn for a resounding YES, General De Gaul l e tol d France, on hi s return fromPresi dent Ei senhower' s funeral , I com back fromthe Uni ted States, where I was abl e to observe the hi gh esteemi n whi ch ourcountry i s regarded Thi s real i ty has i ts pl ace i n the referendumcampaign that i s unfol di ng Frenchmen mustreal i ze that i t i s i n thi s respect that the referendumi s a vote of conf i dence . To which the opposi ti on replAre we voti ng on regi onal i smor on the name of General De Gaul l e?REACTION WAS IMMEDATE One devel opment was a report, whether a real l eak fromthe hal l s of fi nance or a pl antrumor fromthe bottom i . e the extreme Left, there i s no way of knowng, that thi s ti m the f i nancial l eaderof France have decided to toppl e the General , and that the referendumwl l bri ng a NO maj ori ty Thi s broughup the questi on of who would succeed De Gaul l e i f the resul t woul d be a vote of no support and i f the Generalmakes good hi s threat to retire Legal l y, as we have poi nted out, the Presi dent of the Senate, who i s el ected to hi s off i ce, woul d become an i nteri mPresident, but under the central i zed powers which the government has been abl e to bui l d up over the pastten years there are fears that pl ans have al ready been l ai d to i nstal l by force or a hurri ed el ecti on the PrimMni ster, M Couve de Murvi l l e, or hi s predecessor, M Georges Pompi dou Thi s has touched off apprai sal s ofthe respecti ve chances of the two men resul ti ng i n day-to-day quotati ons, as though they were i ssues on a pol ical stock exchange As of now the Couve de Murvi l l e prospectus goes something l i ke this PRIME MN STER COUVE DE MURVI LLE The researches of M Henry Coston (La Li brai ri e Francaise, 27 rue de l ' AbbGregoire, Pari s VI ) tel l us that J acques Mauri ce Couve de Murvi l l e was born i n Rheim on J anuary 24, 1907, theson of a magi strate named Edouard Couve On September 23, 1925, the ci vi l tri bunal of Bordeaux accorded per-mssion for the Couves to add de Murvi l l e to the famly name J acques Mauri ce marri ed Mss J acquel i neSchweisguth, daughter of a promnent banker, and i n 1932 was named I nspector of Finances I t was i n f i nancesthat he had special i zed, and after the f al l of France he became Mni ster of Fi nance i n the Vi chy government ofPetai n and Laval He i s credi ted wth stabi l i zi ng the franc for Petai n before l eavi ng to j oi n General G raudi n A gi ers, where i n March 1943 he assumed off i ce as Commssi oner of Fi nance for the French Commttee of Nati oLiberati on, under De Gaul l eMonsieur Coston wri tes that Presi dent Roosevel t was rel yi ng at the ti me on the f i nancial advice of Messrs Leand Morgenthau, and on thei r i nsistence threatened to cut off Ameri can support for Free French forces as l ongCouve de Murvi l l e was Fi nance Commssi oner Thi s i s understandabl e Neither Lehman nor Morgenthau had anysympathy for a functi onary who had tri ed to hol d the pi eces together for Vi chy Accordi ngl y Couve de Murvi l l ewas dropped and i t i s cl aimed that thi s marked the begi nni ng of a deep-rooted though careful l y conceal ed antiathy for Ameri ca I n 1945, after the l i berati on, he became di rector of pol i ti cal aff ai rs i n the Foreign Ofiand i n J ul y 1946 was a member of the French del egati on to the Peace Conference When the Bi g Four mt i n Mosfor a conference i n March 1947, Couve de Murvi l l e was there I n 1950 he went to Cai ro as ambassador, where hstayed unti l he became French representati ve at NATO and then ambassador to Wshi ngton

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e 2The events that fol l owed are sai d to have hardened sti l l further hi s feel i ngs toward Amri ca I t was whi l e Couwas i n Wshi ngton that Amri can agents i n South V etnamunl eashed a vi cious campai gn against the wthdrawngFrench Thi s was the peri od when Colonel Edward Lansdal e and General I ronMke ODani el were runni ng a popu-l ari ty contest against our al l i es i nstead of fi ghti ng communi sm tryi ng to sel l Amrica to the South V etnamseby openi ng ol d sores and whi ppi ng up feel i ngs agai nst the despi sed col oni al i sts . To themthere was no communi st threat to South V etnam The French embassy i n Wshi ngton bore the brunt of thei r campai gn i n Amri ca Anon November 1, 1954, cam the fi rst onslaught of the A geri ans agai nst the Europeans, a revol t i n which theA geri an terrori sts were to becom to an ever-i ncreasi ng degree the proteges of Wshi ngton, whi l e wthi n NATOAmri ca was ml i tary l eader of thewestern al l i ance wth i ts base i n France Two years after the outbreak i n A geri a cam Suez, wth al l the rancors that our pol i cy of the ti m engendered Li ttl e was sai d about Suez as the fl ood of obi tuari es rol l ed off presses when Ike was l ai d to rest O that rii n the great al l i ance the conservati ve London Dai l y Tel egraph of March 19 observed, Rarely has the head of aUni ted States admni strati on aroused so much rancor i n thi s country as, abetted and perhaps goaded by M Dul l ehe (I ke) contri ved to do duri ng thi s grave and momntous si tuati on Hs apparent support for, even truckl i ng tNasser, at fi rst al armd and then confounded hi s fri ends and not onl y i n thi s country Only i f there were agreat deal to be gained by i t coul d M Couve de Murvi l l e be expected t o close hi s personal books on these ol dscores, shoul d he becom France s Chi ef of State tomorrowWth De Gaul l e s return to power i n 1958 Couve becam Mni ster of Forei gn Affai rs Though he co-operated wl l il y i n De Gaul l e s betrayal of French patri ots i n A geri a, he resented doi ng so under pressure bui l t up by Dul l eCabot Lodge i n UN and the i ntri gues of Amri can l abor bosses After ten years as Forei gn Mni ster cam the bi gpromoti on to hei r apparent and successor to M . Pompidouwhen the Pri m Mni ster was removed, presumabl y becausDe Gaul l e fai l ed to get the vote he anti cipated i n the 1968 el ecti ons For thi s i s part of the phenomna of thpresent regim Before each el ecti on or referendumThe Gui de, as he i s cal l ed, threatens to go back toCol ombey-l es-Deux-Egl i ses and l eave the nati on to anarchy i f he i s not gi ven a resoundi ng vote I t i s taci tl yagreed that thi s wl l never happen The Guide wl l cl i ng to power I f the vote goes agai nst him the Pri mMni ster and a fewcabi net mmbers wl l be sacri f i ced but the chi ef wl l refuse to step down However, shoul di l l ness, death or a massi ve revol t i n the streets or at the pol l s mke a change necessary, who woul d survi ve thscramble for power? Thi s i s the questi on that persi sts The l eadi ng threat to M Couve de Murvi l l e i s sti l lhi s predecessor, M PompidouGEORGES POMPI DOU was born on J ul y 5, 1911, and was educated to be a professor MNUTE, the Pari s weekly of Mar13, 1969, recounts that Leopold Senghor, the present presi dent of Senegal , was converted to soci al i smby hi sschoolmte, Georges Pompi dou, who, accordi ng to Henry Coston s Dcti onnai re de l a Pol i ti que Frangai se, was thena mli tant in the Soci al i st Youth Movemnt September 1954 was an event-crammd peri od Col onel Lansdal e was runni ng the Chi ef of Staff of the South V et-namse Arm out of hi s country and purgi ng the arm of i ts experi enced off i cers, l abor-revol uti on-sower I rvi ngBrownwas hel pi ng to organi ze the outbreak i n A geria and Couve de Murvi l l e was watchi ng events fromhi s embassi n Wshi ngton I t was at thi s tim that Georges Pompidou entered the bank of Rothschi l d Freres and eventual l yi nto the speci al l y-created post of Drector-General There he remai ned unti l De Gaul l e s return to power i n1958, when he was gi ven l eave to head De Gaul l e s personal cabi net, though he conti nued to admni ster a numberof Rothschi l d subsidi ari es, whi ch i ncl uded the Penarroyarai l roads, a cereal f irm a shi pyard and several others Pompi dou was the onl y advisor De Gaul l e l i stened to I tstart i ng secret tal ks wth the A geri ans for arrangi ng abri l l i ant negoti ati ng preserved Rothschi l d oi l i nterestsrol e between I srael and Egypt after i ndependence

mnes, an arm f irm an Afri canmari tim company, twoThere i s no doubt that f rom1958 to the spri ng of 9was to Pompi dou that De Gaul l e entrusted the mssi on ocease-f i re At the ti m i t was mai ntained that hi si n the Sahara and obl i gated the A geri ans to a mdi ati

I n 1962 he repl aced Mchel Debre as Pri m Mni ster, and there he remi ned unti l De Gaul l e s di sappointmnt wthel ecti on returns i n 1968 demanded a scapegoat Many thought at the ti m that hi s ousti ng fromthe Pri m Mni steshi p was a pl ay to keep himuncompromsed by De Gaul l e s sinki ng popul ari ty and thus i n posi ti on to i nheri t thesuccessi on and carry on the Master s work Those who held that i dea were di sabused l ast month, a month and ahal f before the referendum when French Nati onal Radi o and Tel evi si on announced that Monsi eur and Madam Pompidwere to be questi oned on the subj ect of the Marcovi c murder case Frenchmn agreed that the ex-Pri m Mni sterand hi s wfe had shown a preference for company not regul arl y sel ected by mn of l eadershi p responsibi l i ti es, bthey were unwl l i ng to see the Pompidous i mpl i cated for pol i ti cal reasons i n a sordi d murder case I n a f l ash i t becam apparent why the case of the murder of movi e star A ai nDelon s Yugosl av bodyguard had beekept al i ve, why the publ i c had been ti ti l l ated wth hi nts that, through the imprudence of thei r wves, mn i nhi gh pl aces were goi ng to see thei r nams i n pri nt before thi s sensati onal case was over, but that, regardl essof whomi t mght i nvol ve, the governmnt woul d l eave no stone unturned As of nowmany peopl e bel i eve thatnei ther the ol d fri ght campaign nor the smar attack on Pompi dou wl l be compl etel y successful , that, i f notdefeated, the Guide wl l have onl y a smal l mj ori ty, after whi ch a newhei r to De Gaul l e wl l emrge, eventhough i t my not be Georges Pompi douO equal i mportance to most Europeans i s the questi on, what ki nd of a governmnt wl l they be deal i ng wth i nAmri ca for the next four years?THE NEWTEAMIN THE WH TE HOUSE Bear i n mnd that the most sophi sti cated and pol i ti cal l y-bent edi tors andpol i ti ci ans i n Europe knownothi ng of the Counci l on Foreign Relati ons Foreign Pol i cy Associati on? Neverheard of i t Menti on of our great foundati ons conj ures onl y a pi cture of money being put to good work Lefti s

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Pageattack Ameri ca, whi l e conservati ve edi tors and wi ters l aud Ameri ca as the Free Worl d' s l eader i n an anti -communi st struggl e But of those prai si ng Ameri ca, not a one has di spl aced hi mel f to go and fi nd out what i sbehi nd the men and groups that formAmeri can pol i cy I n sum Europe' s pro-Ameri can, pro-Western press acceptsbl i ndl y the j udgment of Ameri ca's l efti st press as to who i s good and who i s bad Li kewse, havi ng no di rect lto conservati ves i n Ameri ca, European conservati ves have no way of warning Ameri cans against those who are palmof f on our l eaders as spokesmen for thei r country when our offi ci al s go abroad The resul t i s an example of thadroi tness wth whi ch the i nternati onal Left i s abl e to di vi de and rul e To msi nformed Europeans Republ i cani s synonomous wth conserv tive amd Democrati c wth l i beral Consequentl y, wth the el ecti on of Presi denNxon a wave of opti msmbased on wshful thi nki ng brought encouragement to those opposed to De Gaul l e andsurrender i n V etnamOn Fri day, February 28 hopes were hi gh as President Nxon arr i ved f romRome and drove i nto Pari s f romOrl y Ai rport, along streets l i ned wth V etcong fl ags and pl acards procl aimng Nxon Assassi n. Pol i ce armed wth ri fand pi stol s patrol l ed the road fromPari s to Versai l l es, where De Gaul l e waited at the Peti t Tri anon for h s fital k wth the newPresi dent Nxon woul d showthe pro-V etcong ri f f -raf f where to get off Hopes of pro-WesteFrenchmen were soon dashed Wth a shock they l earned that, unbeknownst to Ameri cans and most Frenchmen, a cl osdoor meeti ng had taken pl ace i n whi ch twenty hand-pi cked l eft i sts, l abor l eaders and pro-communi st ml i tants haconferred at l ength wth Presi dent Nxon Among those present were Eugene Descamps, l eft i st Secretary-Generalof the French Confederati on of Democrati c Workers, and M J ean Dani el (real name, Ben Sai d MR J EANDAN EL an extreme-Left North Afri can, born Ben Sai d i n B i da, Al geri a, on Jul y 21 1920, has beenwi tten up often i n these Reports He i s edi tor of the Nouvel Observateur, the pro-Red weekl y that sent MssMchel e Ray, the anti -Ameri can extol l er of Che Guevara, to V etnam where she l i ved wth our troops for fourmonths before passi ng over wth al l she had l earned to the V etcong Under the name J ean Dani el M Ben Sai dwas for some years French correspondent for the NewRepubl i c He i s a fri end of NewRepubl i c edi tor Harri son athe Ameri can Red, Thomas Buchanan (author of Who Ki l l ed Kennedy? ), and was abl e, ai ded by those who see thatonl y Lefti sts reach our Presidents, to have one of the l ast appointments granted by Presi dent Kennedy before thtri p to Dal l as That he shoul d al so be si ngl ed out to express h s vi ews to Presi dent Nxon, i n a closed group, came as a j ol t When asked howhe got to see the Presi dent, Ben Sai d (Dani el ) repl i ed, I n spi te of my vi ol ent and i ncessantattacks on Ameri can pol i cy si nce the bi rth of the Nouvel Observateur, part i cul arl y as regards V etnamand' Lati nAmeri ca, I was among those i nvi ted to a smal l sel ect group meeti ng wth Presi dent N xon I accepted that i nvi tti on j ust as I accepted that of the Sovi et embassy after the i nterventi on i n Czechoslovaki a I t coul d hardl ycal l ed an expl anati on Those who knewabout the meeti ng asked why a rabi d l eft i st who supports Ameri ca's enemi n every area where Ameri ca i s i n troubl e shoul d be si ngl ed out to meet and talk to the newPresi dent, whi l e noobj ecti ve schol ar or wi ter was so honored? Who i n the Ameri can embassy, CA or the President' s entouragesel ected the twenty men of Ben Sai d and Eugene Descamps i l k to meet the Presi dent i n secret i nstead of havi ng aopen meeti ng wth a group recommended by someone l i ke Professor Renouvi n, whose excel l ent works on i nternati onarel ati ons are standard texts i n the I nsti tute of Pol i ti cal Sci ence?No report of what transpi red at th s meting ppe red i n pri nt I t i s possibl e that the meeti ng was the newPresi dent' s peace negoti ati on wth the French Left, an opportuni ty to personal l y assure those who are behi ndFrench demonstrati ons agai nst Ameri ca' s rol e i n V etnamthat there wl l be no confl i ct wth aim pursued by theTo a l efti st professor, edi tor and l abor l eader a meeti ng wth the President i nevi tabl y l eads to an i ncrease i npresti ge Li kewse i t l eads to gi vi ng such men pre-emnence over those who support Ameri ca The smal l cl osed-door meeti ng of the careful l y-sel ected l eft i sts wth the Presi dent i n Pari s bri ngs us to a wder aspect of thenegoti ati ons to get Ameri ca out of V etnamNEGOTI ATEDSURRENDER Fol l owng the Nxon vi si t to Pari s, a newword was i ntroduced i n reports on V etnamH therto stress had been l ai d on our havi ng no desi re for ml i tary vi ctory. Nowthe term cl assi c mli taryvi ctory appeared A del i cate shading, hi nti ng that though our pul l -out mght not consti tute a classi c ml i tvi ctory i t would be a mli tary vi ctory nonetheless Simultaneously wth the addi ti on of cl assi c to mli tary vi ctory -- as though there i s any other - - came HuberHumphrey's statement over the Nati onal Educati onal Tel evi si on network on March 3 The bi ggest mstake of theJ ohnson admni strati on, sai d Hubert, was our i nabi l i ty or our unwl l i ngness to real l y expl ai n to the Ameri canpeople that our ul ti mate obj ecti ve was a negoti ated pol i ti cal settl ement What more the J ohnson admni strati ocoul d have done to make th s clear i s hard to see Assumpti on was that the statement had been made for the purpose of keeping the newadmni strati on i n l i ne On March 27, 1969, M Murray Marder tol d readers of the I nternati onal Edi ti on of the Heral d-Tri bune, The Nxoadmni strati on seeks a negoti ated settl ement of the ml i tary and pol i ti cal i ssues i n the war By contrast, i ti s cl aimed, the control l i ng forces i nside the J ohnson admni strati on basical l y sought to achi eve a ml i taryvi ctory So ml i tary vi ctory was our obj ecti ve before l ast November, and Nxon had better keep the sel l -outrol l i ng i f he doesn' t want to be l i ke J ohnsonTwenty-four hours l ater, i n the Heral d Tri bune of March 28 J oseph Kraft wote that i n a f ri endl y conversati onwth the l eader of the Hanoi del egati on to Pari s Tran buu Ki emhad warned hi mthat the hawks of Saigon and theState Department had another card up thei r sl eeve ; they would try to bui l d up the Saigon army and then begi nthe wthdrawal of Ameri can troops Obvi ously, Hanoi woul d prefer a defenseless Saigon when we pul l out On Apri l 3 Stephen Barber, wi ti ng out of Washi ngton, tol d Bri tons i n the Dai l y Tel egraph that Nxon i s goi ng

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Page 4al l out to end the war and bri ng the boys home -- and he wants both fri end and foe t o know i t That, sai d Barbi s why M Lai rd, the Defense Secretary, announced that c