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363-04407 to 363-04410
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Title
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Article about Communists sending children to North Vietnam
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Description
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Original title: "children", Keever's title: "Communists Send Southern-Born Schoolchildren to North Vietnam for 'a New Breed of Classes.'" Article draft about the removal of children from South Vietnam to North Vietnam in order to give them a communist education. Written for the Christian Science Monitor
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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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Beverly Deepe
38, Vo Tanh
Saigon, Vietnam
August 26, 1968
Children--page 1
SAI GON The Communists are sending South Vietnamese c schoolchildren and
teenagers to North Vietnam training, in a significant, long-range move designed
to develop "a new breed of cadres."
They
The selected children fall into two age groups-11 to 14 and 15 to 17.
are the children of low-level Communist cadre, children whose parents have joined
the "revolutionary cause," children of very poor families without means of
support
and children of dead Viet Cong soldiers and cadr civilian cadres.
Captured by Allied forces, the written Communist Party instructions for
"selection of children for training in North Vietnam" specified the purpose of
the move as "an action to reward cadres who have rendered meritorious services
to the Revolution in the South and at the same time to train a new breed
of cadres loyal to the Revolution and dedicated to the building of Socialism
in the future."
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Deepe
Children--pace 2
Several high-ranking Viet Cong defectors he said they have seen groups
of small South Vietnamese children leaving the country for Cambodia, Wh
from where they are flown by airplane to North Vietnam. No official estimates
of the number of children involved are available, but the Communists are
known to have been carrying out the practice for some time. In 1954, when
Vietnam was dividi divided, many Southern Communists-and their children over
ten years of age--were " "regrouped" in Communist North Vietnam. These
regroupees were then became the invaluable backbone of the Communist
readorshil leadership by re-infiltrating back to their home areas in the
South since 1956 to ignite the initial phases of the subversive and
guerrilla war.
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Deepe
Children-page 3
"This move of shipping kids off to North Vietnam means the Communists
are thinking in very long-range terms," one informed source explained. "If
there is a coalition government set up in the South, the Communists will have
new Southern cadres to send South for the next five to ten years--and all of
them will be expertly Communist trained and indoctrinated.
Communists are way ahead of the Allies in mapping out future alternatives.
The Communisty
Other eu captured Communist documents, discussing strategic plans,
have revealed to Allied authorities here that the Commun Hanoi is attempting
Military fort
in 1968 to make an all-out, short-range push-but that if it fails in
the
S military con showdown, it is prepared to fall back into a protracted
war strategy of less military intensity. The move to send Southern children
to the no North is interpreted in this broader sense as a concrete step
taken to prepare
already preparing for this latter contingency protracted contingen
contingency.
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Deepe
Children--page 4
The captured Communist instructions are dated April, 1968, but refer to
two earlier "circulars" dated October, 1967, and February, 1968,
the selection of children to be sent Werts to North Vietnam.
The
concerning
instructions are addressed to Communist Party sections and village committees
of the Viet Cong district-level organization.
In systematizing the procedures
for the selection of the children, the instructions specify the children are
BY
to be categorized am for approval of senior levels. Each selected child
was to have a brief biographical data sheet certified by the committee level,
LETTERS
along with recommendations resters from the local Communist Party district
committee.
"The children are supposed to depart before the onset of the rainy season,
MONSOON
the instructions read.
begins began in June
The rainy season in the southern part of the country
"year.
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Date
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1968, Aug. 26
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Subject
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Vietnam (Republic); Mặt trận dân tộc giải phóng miền nam Việt Nam; Vietnam (Democratic Republic); Education; Civilians in war; Communist education
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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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B10, F38
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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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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
