This is what one Labour M.P. was said to have exclaimed after hearing Wilson defend the American resumption of bombing of North Vietnam. There is absolutely no basis upon which his case rests, The New York Times this week disclosed that the American administration's claims about the numbers of infiltrators from the North were completely unsubstantiated. _. Westmoreland is. claiming a figure which is 8 times what the Mcnamara is. ’ saying. Calculations done show that the figures the U.S. puts out cannot. possibly be true: yet Wilson used ‘hese figures to justify his agreement with the resumption of the bombing. We can only echo those words above.
The WeekThe Week Vol. 7, No. 7, 16 February 1967
There Is No Word to Express My Disgust
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