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Digital Object Identifier
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363-07584 to 363-07588
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Title
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Article about the Johnson Administration's report for a non-aligned Southest Asia
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Description
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Keever's title: "'The damned Americans really want to pull out of here' reaction to Vice President Humphrey's call for non-aligned Southest Asia", article about the Johnson Administration's report for a non-aligned Southest Asia, for the New York Herald Tribune
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Draft transcripts were automatically generated via Google Document AI and are currently under review. Please report significant errors to Archives & Special Collections at archives@unl.edu.
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Transcript
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(MORGAN GANDY)
SAIGON, 29200 (UPIS)--The Johnson Administration's reported
emphasis for aye non-aligned Southeast Asia wemm
was immediately regarded here as aye major policy shift.
"We thought the Americans came to Vietnam to stem the tide
of Communism," Tooradi one Vietnamese intellectual pointedly
said. "And heret they are advocating neutralizing the whole
South East Asia peninsula.
theory?"
Whatever happened to the domino
His view reflected the sem stunning impact and
sa sizeable jolt to Vietnamese political insiders of the
news dispatches of Vice President Humb Hubert Humphrey's
Newsweek interview.
Some
Vietnamese language newspapers splashed banner
headlines readings
"United States completely agrees to the principle of real
independence and non-alignment of Vietnam."
The Chinh Luan (Right Opinion) newspaper,
the second largest
in circulation and considered to be associated with the American
Central Intelligence Agency," carried under its banner headline
and three column subhead reading,
he (Vice President Humphrey)
said only god can reverse the
situation in Vietnam because that country has
(More--Miller-BD)
all kinds of problems."
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first add--morgan gandy--saigon
x x x of problems x x x
Zmn
The pro-neutralist, pro-Buddhist newspapers carried banner
headlines.
aye
The major Catholic,
anti-Communist newspaper carried only
three-column lead headline.
One newspaper representing the viewpoint of prominent Vietnamese
generals did notrptnot even carry the story.
The French language newspaper
but tax
FME SHOP
inconspicuously placed
Emembru
I wrote mostly
but notrptnot
story on the front page,
lead with the Vice President's remarks on containing, b
isolating Communist China.
ough
None of the newspapers appeared to have time to write
any editorial comments about the
Vice President's remarks.
(More)
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Saigon
second add-morgan gandy--
vice president's
remarks x X
X X X A
of the Vice President's remarks
The news dispatches E
passed the government censors.
newspapers used the word "Khong Lien-Ket"
literally "no relationships or alliances"
"Trung Lap" im
the Vietnamese
mmm which means
Ed NoTRPINOT
the word
which means "heutrality."
"We knew we could notrptnot get the word trung lap by the
one Vietnamese newsman explained.
government censor,"
o words mean the same thing to the Vietnamese."
"But the
in the hot afternoon,
As the Vietnamese newspapers newspapers hit the streets,
a small cluster of politically-oriented Vietnamese businessmen
one of them
mused
,
bought then and over ice cream and coffee,
as he read the Vice President's statement,
The current crisis in Vietnam
"It's
is created by
fairly clear now.
the Americans so they can find an excuse to negotiate and
get out of Vietnam."
The opere others agreed and the conversation flitted to
discussions about the disruptive demonstrations in the Northern
provinces of south Vietnam--and the ones earlier this week in
America.
(More-Miller--BD)
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third add--morgan gandy--saigon
x x x in America. XXX
The Vietnamese political circles quickly equated the
Vie Vice President Humphrey's statement with the rise to power
eventual fall of Prime Minister's Nguyen Cao Ky's hardline anti-
Communist government and Vietnam's ruling ten-man junta, and then
the gradual-perhaps bloodily violent--xie
emergence
of a pro-neutralist government and an eventual withda
withdrawal of most--but perhaps notrptnot all--of the one quarter
milo million American combat troops.
one source
"The Vietnamese government is really worried now,2
close the government explained. "The damned Americans really
want to pull out of here. It did notrptnot believe that they'd
ever do it."
A politically-interested wife of a Vietname low-ranking
government i official explained, "If the American troops pull out of
here the whole country will collapse. The students (in the northern
provinces) are demonstrating and striking for a withdrawal of
American troops. But, my God, if the Americans pull out of here
those to
how will their parents get the money to send the
kids
school."
(More--Miller--BD)
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fourth add--morgan gandy--saigon
x x x to school x x X.
An
American civilian explained that the great dane
danger in a neutralist government is that clandestine Communist
agents would exert more influence in that government than the
pro-American elements.
"The Axx big question is whether the Americans pull out--
he explained.
or get chucked out in a very dishonorable manner,"
who last week was involved in
An American paratrooper,
bloody battle with North Vietnamese soldiers,
took a sip of
straight vodka, read the Vice President's statement and sighed,
"How can we give this place away when we have fought so hard!"
(End-Miller--BD)
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Date
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1966, Mar. 29
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Subject
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Nonalignment; Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973; Strategy; Vietnam (Republic)--Relations--United States
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Location
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Saigon, South Vietnam
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Coordinates
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10.8231; 106.6311
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Size
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20 x 26 cm
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Container
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B188, F3
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Format
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dispatches
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Collection Number
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MS 363
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Collection Title
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Beverly Deepe Keever, Journalism Papers
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Creator
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Keever, Beverly Deepe
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Collector
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Keever, Beverly Deepe
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Copyright Information
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These images are for educational use only. To inquire about usage or publication, please contact Archives & Special Collections.
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Publisher
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Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
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Language
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English
