from The Week (6/4/67) shortened
eeein an article in the official newspaper Nhan Dan, U Thant's recent Vietnam truce proposals were described as "supporting and encouraging U.S. imperialism." The paper went on to say that U Thant's suggestion for a general stand-still truce, followed by preliminary talks and the reconvening of the Geneva conference, put the "victim of aggrossion on the same footing as the aggressor. The truce proposals would, it said, "amount in fqct to demanding that the Vietnameso people lay down their arms and give up the fight against U.S. aggressors while nearly 500,000 U.S. troops still tread Vietnamese soil. "Such an approach constitutes in itself an encouragement to the U.S. aggressors in Vietnam," the paper concluded. Le Monde of April 3rd had this to say about U Thant's latest proposals: "The publication by Mr. Thant of his new 'peace plan' for Vietnam undoubtedly constitutes a success for the United States. The United Nations secretary~ general unquestionably strengthened the American position that any cessation of the bombing should cosincide with a reciprocity move from Hanoi....Mr. Thant's attempt, whose failure was foreseoable, is all the more to be regretted since it is already interpreted in Peking as furthcrevidence of the sccretary-general's alignment with ‘American impeorialism'...e.
(Our emphasis)