From a Jew Zealand 0.N.D. leaflet
Yesterday, I assisted at mass, as I do each Sunday. This tells you something about myself. The truth about Vietnam is that we wish to make our own way without foreign intervention....
Perhaps, if the Americans were to go away, we might have one government of our choice, It must be for all Vietnam, It may be socialist or communist, That is our affair. Then, if we choose to have close links with China, or France, is not that our affair also? You cannot force us to follow any policy. Neither can you bribe us, For we are Vietnamese.
To say that if the Americans go away we shall become victims of the Chinese makes every Vietnamese laugh. We have known the Chinese for two thousand years. Even in Manchu times, before the French, we could look after ourselves} Today, the attitude of the Chinese people is different. It is so correct that the Chinese Government will not even discuss the effairs of my country with others, Chinese help would not be forced upon ny country. However, it will be given when it is asked for by a representative government, which is rather different from an American appointed government.
I write in clarity, mying there is only one solution. My country has been occupied for nearly a hundred years. For twenty five years there has been no peace in the south, with the French, the Japanese, and now the Americans, We are tired of them all, people who come to stay when they are not wanted. let them go home, let them leave us alone, U.S. CASUALTIES POUR INTO THE PHILIPPINES by an American reader According to a report in the November 27 the Washington Post, the number of wounded U.S. servicemen in Vietnam has increased tenfold since last spring. Its Manila correspondent reported that the Clark Field military hospital in Manila has been placed on a wartime footing to cope with thousands of American casualties pouring in from Vietnam. "Scarcely a day now passes without 2 or 3 giant cargo airplanes landing here to unload their human ca eS ee Oe ee eee ee © ee ee ee Pee eee Se |