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The Week Vol. 3, No. 20, 20 May 1965 · pp. 7-9 of the scan · 971 words

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Objective account of the attempted take-over of the Australian Labour Party by the catholic ‘Movement’ published at 30s. offered at 15s.

T. Truman

Send P.O. /Cheque to:- The Merlin Press Ltd

112 Whitfield Street

London, W.1

The world _is_eonfronted witha creat danger, the danger of subjection

ring for some years, but is

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‘ernment anywhere on the

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his policy will lead to

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American ambition continued/

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f a state “may not be the objec : pee eee another state, directly or indirectly, under any groun whatsoever e" In San Domingo, the United States, assuming its moral a to = the Western Hemisphere, has acted to preserve this sphere of inf age ee Vietnam, the U.S. is waging 4 massive war on the boundaries of wre ? because {+ is a Communist country, is ~ eee kere oS ae aeiies influence - that would be aggressione ere is on ; and another for the rest of the world. Both laws are made in Washingtone When the Vietnamese finally overthrew their French colonial ie in 1954, settlement was achieved at Geneva. The terms of the — s = made there were entirely admirable. Vietnam was to be neutral and — = ent. All foreign troogrs and bases were to be excluded. The country, empor= arily divided, was to be re-united and remain neutral, and the Vietnamese were to be permitted free elections for the first time. Although these agreements had the full support of the Vietnamese, the Chinese, the Russians, the French, and many others, the United States refused to sign them. Dulles, labouring under the delusion thatneutralism was immoral, set out systematically to destroy the Geneva Agreements. He quickly created the South East Asia Treaty Organisation to consolidate the U.S. sphere of influence in the area, and without a shred of justification intervened in Vietnam. It was the United States alone that prevented free elections in Vietnam, and it has continued to prevent them to this day. Elections are only permitted if their result is acceptable to the U.S. Government, and as President Eisenhower recognised at the time, at least 80% of the votes would have gone to the national hero, Ho Chi Minh. From that time the United States became more and more deeply involved in the affairs of South Vietnam until it was clear to the whole world that it was directing and financing a full-scale war of atrocity against the people, whose only crime was that they desired independence, free elections and no military alliance with any nation, East or West, Washington's argument was simple, if fallacious, We hold, it declared, that the Vietnamese hate Communism. Therefore we shall murder some of them to make their hatred of Communism more evident. Consequently, they will © love us. Vietnam became a proving ground for every new weapon. Napalm was showered down from the skies to roast people alive. Chemical weapons, called “defoliants", were used extensviely on scores of villages. Peasants had their heads blown off by new bullets or their bodies chopped up by steel splinters, Eight million Vietnamese were herded into concentration camps, called strategic hamlets", and a further half million were conscripted to keep down American casualties, This army, in the name of the Free World, managed to disembowel 3,000 of their fellow countrymen by cutting out their livers whilst they were still alive, When it became apparent to the United States that not even two million dollars a day could buy enough friends, and the war in the South was being lost, the bombing of the North was started. North Vietnam appears unlikely

American ambition continued/

to giv i pe eg Man at of this naked agression, It is highly probable ares ’ eanidiaes ess the United States changes its policy China will ie — vases fina mi undertaken to protect North Vietnam if necessary, and hitGn nde “ina, “8 8S ready to bomb China if necessary. Further, the Soviet eames i “ - ee he war in the defence of China if China is Seale oh Ge Sonat ms ole persistence of America in its

World War III, if not nuclear, will lead to undecid *: se eee will be content with such warfare aust anes will Bat ie at pee five years, or ten years, but sooner or later, America wiapct. ae a his indecisive kind of fighting and will resort to nuclear — . eS segs 1 mean the end of civilisation, if not of man. For this — of Supreme importance that ways should be found of stopping

ca before it is too late, I very much welcome the action which you are taking at Berkeley in this cause, :

llth May, 1965.

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