Nixon's "Surrender Document"?

Close analysis of the provisions of the Agreement suggests however that the sceptics are quite wrong and that the North Vietnamese, the N.F.L. and P.R.G. in South Vietnam, The Chinese and the Russians were quite correct in hailing the document as meaning a great victory. While many western politicians and commentators were content to merely express pious sentiments of pleasure that the war was over, some non-communist commentators came up with essentially the same conclusions as Hanoi, Peking and Moscow.

On January 29th the authoritative Far Eastern Economic Review stated bluntly in an editorial: "After eight years of unnecessary bloodshed and cruelty, the United States has finally signed the surrender document".