Letter to Sam Schreiner about river warfare article

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363-01454

Title

Letter to Sam Schreiner about river warfare article

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Letter to Sam Schreiner of The Reader's Digest from Keever about "River Warfare" articles

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Saigon, Vietnam
November 27, 1967

Mr. S. A. Schreiner, Jr.
The Reader's Digest
Pleasantville, New York 10570

Dear Sam,
At last--the Vietnam river war article! Sorry that it was delayed for all sorts of reasons. The piece contains most of the angles you were interested in--the American Civil War, learning from the Vietnamese and the new tactical concept. Unfortunately, it may still be too sprawling, but perhaps wacking out alot of the color and quotes will make it usuable. I had to downgrade the Special Forces aspect substantially because I found the Game Warden Operation was the essential counter-part to the Mobile Riverine Force and hence deserved much more space than I originally planned.

I have deliberately quoted several Negro military persons in order to under the Navy's fear that the U. S. Civil War connection might erroneously lead the reader to believe Vietnam is also a civil war, which is distinct from the official American view that it is aggression etc.

I'll be looking forward to your views on this piece. Please give my thanks to John Hubbell for suggesting the name of Lt. Cmdr. Dan Dagle, who was very helpful.

Sincerely yours,

Beverly Deepe

Date

1967, Nov. 27

Subject

Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Reader's Digest; Newspaper editors; Journalism--Editing; Schreiner, Samuel A., Jr., 1921-2020; Keever, Beverly Deepe; Correspondence

Location

Saigon, South Vietnam

Coordinates

10.8231; 106.6297

Size

21 x 27 cm

Container

B15, F5

Format

letters (correspondence)

Collection Number

MS 363

Collection Title

Beverly Deepe Keever, Journalism Papers

Creator

Keever, Beverly Deepe

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Publisher

Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries

Language

English