According to the U.S. authorities there were no casualties, no damage. In retaliation, again according to the Americans, 40 bombers strafed the smalk town of Dong Hoi in the North. Both the scale of the “retaliation” and the location of the Vietcong: attack—in the Mekong Delta, hundreds of. miles from the North —expose as a complete lie the U.S. argument that they merely need to deter North Vietnam.
These attacks are designed to bolster up the world’s most unpopular and’ unstable regime. © To save American prestige President Johnson is prepared to play with the risk of nuclear war, which could not fail to involve Britain, the Americans’ main NATO ally.
The whole world can see through this disgusting sham; except, perhaps, our own Labour Government, which has, up to now, remained completely silent.
However, one man hag spoken out and has again acted as Labour’s conscience: Mr. William Warbey, M.P. He deserves, and must get, every bit of support that any reader of this journal can give him.
We must mobilise the maximum pressure behind his demand for an initiative by Britain’s Labour Govyernment to end the Vietnam war. Such initiative, defending the principle of self-determination for the Vietnamese people, would evoke a powerful response.