Just how the present battles will go in Vietnam is difficult to say. However, certain things have emerged: the relationshin ot forces ha changed in favour of the Nationel Liberation Front and there has been a certain measure of disirtepration of the South Vietnamese puppet forces. The fact that tne Americans have had to withdraw forces from the jungles arecs to try to clear Saigon and other towns is significant in itseli. The NLP representative in Moscow has given a very impressive lis of tcans that the liberation forces have taken over. He elso announced that, sections of the punvet army had gone over to the NLI.
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These factors have significance for our fight in Britain, Despite the nonsense be ing aan about by such people as Bernard Levin there is greater unders ending, now, of how isolated the Americens are been demonst rates d bey ‘ond a doubt that they have been iying about military snd pqpijical situation in Vietnam - that is very clear, is no ac*: idorit ae more M.P.s have signed a motion calling voon Wilson to kz change nis Vietnam policy than ever before. Once again, the heroism and skill of the Vietnamese people has assisted our struggle, ‘Ne must do a litile to level the score oy making the March 17 demonstration AS big “and 3 militant as possible. ‘The demonstration will almost certainly be very
aly: by then the Americans will have had to make their choice; ¢ither to
ogmise their ina nility to win in Vietnam or seek to settle accounts by some massive escalation.
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