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363-08104 to 363-08105.pdf
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Digital Object Identifier
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363-08104 to 363-08105
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Title
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Article about communist appeals to South Vietnamese soldiers
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Description
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Original title: "Appeal", Article draft about communist appeals to South Vietnamese soldiers, for the Washington Post
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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
101 Geng ky
Saigon
Appeal one
Saigon-The political arm of the Communist guerrilla movement in
here has appealed to South Vietnamese soldiers and officers to "swing
your guns around and join the people in resisting the U.S.-Diemists."
According to reliable reports reaching here, the appeal was made
by Nguyen Huu Te, cha rman of the Mix Central Committee of the
National Liberation Front for South Viet Nam. The Eunk front is the
main political mouthpiece of the Communist (Viet Cong) guerrilla
organization.
The important appeal was carried in a Vietnamese language broadcast
from Radio Hanoi on September 9. A day later, the New China News Agency
in a Radio Peking breacast in English to Asia and Europe further publicized
the National Liberation Front appeal.
The appeal was made five days after the Vietnamese commander
of Cambodian origin induced his whole Civil Guard company to defect from
the government ranks on September is in a province sixty miles southeast
of Saigon.
Thirtyseven men in the company later returned but still
missing are twenty seven men, seventeen carbines, eighty grenades,
radio, one automatic if rifle and one Thompson submachinegun.
authorities have been unable to persuade the remainder to return to the
government side.
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Provincial
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Deepe
Appeal--2
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The Hanoi broadcast appealed to the soldiers and officers--which it
referred to as "dear friends"-- to "make up your mind to abandon the enemy ranks.
Swing your guns around and join the people in resisting the U. S.-Diemists in order te
save yourselves and the nation."
The broadcast continued; "Certainly now you have understood fully the regime
for whose sake you are obliged to carry guns and die. You must think it ever, dear in
friends. Standing before your gun barrels are citizens who do not want to endure
shame and lose their fatherland to the enemy, religious persons who request nothing but
religious equality, and students and pupils who want democratie freedom. Your
relatives are among all these peope people."
The appeal was interpreted here as an attempt to drive a wedge between
the regular armed forces and the Vietnamese government of President Nge Dinn
Dinh Diem. Many observers here believe that the
President Diem
can be overthrown only by dissident elements in the regular armed forces in
the Saigon area.
A more significant aspect of the appeal, however, would result if it should
capture the emotions of the paramilitary units in the provinces. These
aparamilitary units--called the Self Defense Corps and the Civil Guard--live
in their hoje hometowns, bear the brunt of Viet Cong attacks on small hamlets
in the provinces and are more frequently barraged by Viet Cong propaganda.
While the amak Viet Cong appeal was netrptnet directed to the paramilitary
units, if they should defect in large numbers with their weapons and ammunition,
many observers believe it would be a significant change in the war effort.
The number of government desertions is classified. However, some troops
have been known to desert their unit to rej in their family, but not to join Viet Cong.
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Date
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Unknown
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Subject
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Vietnam, 1961-1975;
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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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B2, F1
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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
