DON'T QUIT IN VIET NAM
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March 7, 1965
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CHEYENNE, WYO.
STATE TRIBUNE
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Don't Quit in Viet Ndm'
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7tilleMea cannot atford to ig- U.S. foreign policy as relat Darling did not take too pes-
nore its future stake in South- ed to Southeast Asia originated simistic a view of the frequent
east Asia, athe former research ~ in 1948, Darling said, with a' :? 'change in South Viet Nam gov-
agence Agency he trr Wo rrld meeting in India between var- '? ernments in Saigon. The con-
Affairs 'Conference here last ious Communist party groups stant shifting of power has its
Affairs 'C nfe-day hexer and representing a wide array of good side, he said, and that is
lecture The is seminar by ~`. Asian nations at which wide.an apparent unwillingness of
lee Town and session is's sored by spread disorders against then the people to accept a dictator.
he Tonne w Country po scn'r League, a existing civil governments were Despite the bewildering num-
tion. ome planned. her of political coups in Sai-
1'he speaker was Dr. Frank The U n i t e d States then gon, he said, that country may
Darling, now assistant profes- launched a response to this pro- be arriving gradually at some
sor of political science at the gram which amounted to a pol- governmental stability.
Uni.versit of Colorado. As a icy of containment of this Com-
munist aggression. U.S. policy The 'U.S. faces four a, Dar-
f member, he once was fives in South Viet Nam,
asslgned to Southeast Asia. was based on both selfish and
Three
Three factors, Darling told a altruistic motives, Darling said, tirely, One at he out en-
session of the confer- and it was aimed at aiding the, as reevent he described
domestic interests of this na- a unlikely because
lance last night, make it impera- would free -most free the Asian Commu-
; tive that this country continue tion as well as aiding the na-
its :Eight in South Viet Nam, tions affected by the Commu- sisns e? expand
lsewhere. thA eir aggress
One, of these is that the popu- nist drives as well. neu eutrlaization ation of f the second is
e area which
lation in Southeast Asia totals Darling suggested that in is unlikely because the North
approximately 200 million per- South Viet Nam today, where Vietnamese Communist leaders
sons, a vast number to be al- he said ? the only alternative have staked their entire politi-
lowed to go to the "enemy." open to us was to pursue our cal careers on Red subjugation
Darling made it clear his def- present policy of firm but pa- 'of South Viet Nam and would
inition of the "enemy" is the tient countering of North Viet not agree to such a decision.
Xomniunists. Nam aggression, we must take A third is to expand the war,
Another major factor, he steps to implement our mill - but this would provide us with
said,' is the great wealth in tary efforts with an expanded another Korea. The only solu-
tin, rubber, petroleum, zinc program of our own guerrilla tion, Darling thinks, is to con- i
and many other forms of warfare against the Viet Cong tinue generally along the line
wealth, A third is that ` South guerrillas. we presently are . following
cast Asia occupies one of the' "The U.S. and its South Viet' with possibly greater einproy-
most six;it:egic locations in the Nam allies also must. provide ment of U.S. military forces in
world situated as it is as a more aid and technical assist South Viet Nam, with a firm
buffer between China and India ance to South Viet Nam as a ' but patient persistence in seek-'
and on a, vital,. Waterways, means of improving the, coup ing to drive out the Viet Cong
,crossing; try's econoy.
...m and defeat their
_,pur~se._
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