Galbraith: "Vietnam a graveyard of U.S. policy"

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Professor John Galbraith, a former US ambassador to India, and an adviser to President Kennedy, addressing the Annual Convention of the Americans for Democratic Action, scathingly attacked the Awerican policy in Vietnam. He said it was assumed that the US faced, in Vietnam,"a unified conspiracy directed, according to changing preference, by Hanoi, Peking or international Coumunism in general? With no social issue teing involved, it had long been felt that military measures would suffice for solution. "americans could be counted on to believe what they were told, particularly about the power and integrity of the people on our side and the menace with which we deal." Any solution demanded that the United States must first “escape the entrap~ aent of our own propaganda." "Vietnam is not important to us, nor is ita bastion of freedom, nor is it a testing ground of democracy. Had it been lost in 1954, no one would now be thinking of it." The U.S., he said, was not going to push back the Viet Cong guerrillas from the large’ areas they had controlled for the past ten years. The most that could be expected would be a regional settlement, as in laos. Professor Galbraith forecast that the American involvement in Vietnam would prove to be the graveyard for the present US foreign policy of fighting Communism without relating the conflict closely to the interests of the United States. "It is worth hoping that the policy is all that gets buried" he added,