Turning Point in the Vietnamese People's Struggle

The people of Vietnam — and all of Indochina — have been fighting for the past thirty years to end foreign interference in their country. The Agreement signed in Paris at the end of January means that they have achieved this and can now turn to settling their own affairs themselves.

The present position from the Vietnamese point of view was very clearly stated recently by Le Due Tho in a speech in Peking. The Agreement, he said, "has laid a political and juridicial basis for the struggle of the entire Vietnamese people to continue to advance and score still greater victories and to complete the national democratic revolution throughout the country.

"The successful conclusion of the Vietnamese people's war of resistance marks a turning point for the Vietnamese revolution. However, it is only an initial victory. The people in both zones, north and south, still have to wage a hard and complicated struggle before they can reach their goal of building a peaceful, unified, independent, democratic and prosperous Vietnam.'