namese farmers. Meanwhile, South Vietnam which was known as a granary of Indo- * China and was a former rice exporter now has to import vice due to U.S. occupation”’. Setsure Tsurushima said that he had seen with his own eyes the good development of North Vietnams agriculture in spite of intensive air raids by the U.S. This had inspired his firm confidence in the final victory of the Vietnamese people, he conelnded Speaking next, John Gerassy, an American journalist and writer, Director of the Bertrand Russell Peace Organisation in the U.S., listed undeniable proofs of U.S. air raids on the civilian population in Hanoi, Haiphong, Thai Binh, Thanh Hoa and Vinh Phuc. ‘‘ These raids,” he said, ‘were exclusively aimed at killing people, and shaking the Vietnamese people’s fighting spirit. But % has also been proved that the fiercer the U.S. aiy vaids, the firmer the Vietnamese people’s determination to fight them. Never in his has there becn a naticn which so closely united and so fi determined to fight to against the enemy as the mamese people. Probably what
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SS most advanced science technique ime the world” have been shot. down by Vietnamese peasants. Puey “In Thuy Dan (Thai Binh province) we have met peasants going to their fields with guns slung acvoss their shoulders. [ asked them with astonishment : ‘Why don't vou have fortifications or guu supports ? How can you fire at them?’ A peasant veplicd »* When the planes come we'll use our own backs as gun supports’. Such a people will never knuckle under. ’’