BUDDHIST OFFOSTT IGN . IS WEIGHED AND BOUND WANTING
By Dick ‘Lemaire
- {The following article has been translated from the June ~ issue of La Quatriéme Internationale, monthly organ of the Parti ~ Communiste Internationaliste, French section of the Fourth International. a. Do iu
In comparing the events in central Vietnam with the events around | the fall of Diem.in 1963, 0 one cannot help but be struck by = the difference in the results.*The uprisings in Hué and Danang in’ the last two months brought an enormous power to bear which disrupted all of the plans of Washington and the Pentagon.:-Never, perhaps, has a mass uprising of such magnitude been directed against a government.as. shaky as that of Ky. Nonetheless, Ky emerged triumphant in both places. : _
. Obviously the! Américens drew a lesson from the fall of Diem -they no longer have any room for maneuver in Vietnam. They will support their bloody puppet to the bitter end because he is their ~ last carc and they know that any compromise would be the first step toward admitting defeat -- a defeat that has already occurred and which,they are trying to cover up. ‘by. committing genocide in the pattern of Hitlerisn.
But this is “not enough to explain the defeat of the