The Great Debate on Vietnam

Holyoake and Hanan v. Ross

Contrary to Mr. Ross's statement that the United States has broken the Geneva Treaty from the beginning, the United States until 1961 carefully observed the limitations of the Ceasefire Agreement on foreign military aid. It was only Following major intervention from the North that the United States vastly expanded its military aid to the South. That action, it may be recalled, was taken by President Kennedy.

Mr. J. Hanan

Acting Minister of External Affairs in "The Great Debate on Vietnam …"

Edgar Ansel Mowrer, editor of a Nato publication 'Atlantic Community' established that it was Diem under active U.S.A. direction who first commenced hostilities against North Vietnam during the period 1954 to 1956. In an article in the French edition of Realites magazine, May 1964, Mowrer revealed that U.S.A. Brigadier-General Edward A. Lansdale, as Diem's military adviser had organised commando raids on the North during the period 1954 to 1956. Further, it was revealed that 3,000 Vietnamese had been trained in Special Forces for further action of this kind. As indicated in an article in Le Monde August 7, 1964, this kind of aggression has been carried on over the year against the North.

Mr. L. F. J. Ross

Chairman

Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation.

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