Throughout 1965 the issue of Vietnam has dominated the headlines - and rightly so. In Vietnam we have on the one side a most heroic people who refuse to bow their heads, who by their defiance of imperialism are acting as the advance of all those who are fighting against oppression and for the liberation of mankind; on the other side we have the most powerful aggressive force the world has ever seen, armed to the teeth and full of determination to impose its will, No other issue is so important, indeed it can be said that one's attitude to Vietnam is a touchstone which indicates whether one is on the side of world progress or world reaction, In this spirit our last editorial for 1965 consists of an appeal from Vietnam, We give below the nost important sections of the message from Professor Nguyen Van Hieu, spokesman on foreign affairs for the South Vietnamese National Liberation Front to the meeting held in Lond/‘to commemorate the fifth enniversary of the establishment of the N.L.Fet "I have learned with great pleasure that, under your guidance, the Russell Foundation is holding a celebration of the 5th Anniversary of the birth of the NLP, 8 poouth Vietnam. This permits me to address you personally, and to the/Btectors of the Russell Foundation as well as to all our friends in Great Britain, my warmest greetings and my heartfelt sentimentseee" After outlining the history of the war, the Professor went on to show how sinister the American talk of peace really is. "To accept the American law of peace or submission to total destruction and massacre, that is the essence of the offers of negotiation of the United Statese ecee "However it is the Government of Mr. Wilson which has been charged to play the role of a fervent propagandist of this policy of war, blackmail and extortion..sCo=-President of the Geneva Conference, the British Government would have had the duty to fulfil correctly its mission. On the contrary it has failed its responsibilities in covering up the acts of sabotage of the American Governmenteeseeand in encouraging US aggression against South Vietnam, as well as the criminal attacks against the North. I should add that the E.C. of the Labour Party has not shown itself any better inspired than Mr, ‘wilson seein this respect, permit me...to express homage for your far-sightedness and strength when you took the decision of breaking with the Party of Mr. WilsonseeeeTherefore the conditions for a return to true peace in South Vietnam must entail a real independence for our people, such as the Front has
time, that is to say:
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