LISTS 327 NATIONS AS “HELPING” IN VIETNAM
As part of a propaganda drive associated with the big new jump in escalating the war in Vietnam, the State Department on March 11 issued a list of 37 countries which it claims have "joined the United States" in "helping" Saigon.
While the list indicates in actuality how little support Johnson has abroad for his war of colonial conquest, the token gestures made by the various governments do have a psychological value. The international antiwar movement should note what these "allies" of the U.S. are doing and call it to public attention wherever possible in order to bring counterpressure to bear.
The list, as issued by the State Department, is as follows:
"ARGENTINA -- 5,000 tons of wheat flour.
“AUSTRALIA -- 4,500 combat troops with more on the way; economic aid ranging from medical teams to school books.
"AUSTRIA -- Offers of medical supplies, blankets and tents through the Austrian Red Cross.
“BELGIUM -- Medicines and an ambulance and scholarships for nine Vietnanese to study in Belgium.
“BRAZIL -- Medical supplies and coffee.
“BRITAIN -- Economic aid ranging from road building equipment to education and medical help.
"CANADA -- Economic aid ranging from medical assistance to food and construction of a science auditorium at Hue University.
"DENMARK -~ Medical assistance.
"DOMINICAN REPUBLIC -- An offer of cement.
"FRANCE -- Professional and training personnel, and low-interest credits for economic development.
"GREECE -- Medical supplies.
"GUATEMALA -- Medical supplies.
"HONDURAS ~- Drugs and dry goods for refugees.
"IRELAND -- Flood relief.
"TRAN ~~ Petroleum products and a medical tean.
"ISRAEL -- Pharmaceutical supplies for flood victims.
"ITALY ~- A surgical team and science scholarships.
“JAPAN ~- Economic aid ranging from medical supplies to transistor radios and aid in building a dam to produce power.
"LAOS -- Flood relief.
"LIBERIA -~ Medical assistance.
"LUXEMBURG -- Plasma and blood transfusion equipment.
"MALAYSIA -- Training of Vietnamese military and police officers in counterinsurgency and supply of transportation equipment.
"NEW ZEALAND -- Combat forces being increased to about 360 men; economic assistance in medicine and education.
"THE NETHERLANDS ~— Medical and social welfare assistance.
“NORWAY -- Flood relief.
“PAKISTAN -- Flood relief.
"PHILIPPINES -- A 2,000-man military engineering unit; civic action personnel including military and civilian medical teams.
“SOUTH KOREA -- 45,000 combat troops and medical aid.
"SPAIN -- Medical assistance.
"SWITZERLAND -- Medical help and microscopes for the University of Saigon.
"TAIWAN -- An 18-man military psychological warfare team plus economic aid in agriculture, medicine, education and electrical development.
"THATLAND -- Armed forces totaling about 12,000 men and economic aid ranging from rice to roofing materials and medical supplies.
"TUNISIA -- Scholarships.
"TURKEY -- Medicines and an offer of cement.
"URUGUAY -- Relief supplies and medicines.
"VENEZUELA -- Rice for refugee relief and medical assistance.
"WEST GERMANY -- Nonmilitary instruction, medical aid, refugee help, credits for industrial development."
WHAT I SAW IN NORTH VIETNAM
By Setsure Tsurushima
[At a conference of European vanguard youth organizations held in Brussels March 11-12 (see World Outlook April 7, p. 361), a message was read from Setsure Tsurushima, a secretary of the International War Crimes Tribunal who visited Vietnam as a member of the Japanese team delegated to gather evidence of the commission of war crimes. The text of this message is as follows. ]
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During my stay in Vietnam as a menber of the investigation team of the IWCT, I could see two different aspects of the Vietnam war which are in sharp contrast to each other.
One is terrible. American planes attacking hospitals, churches, pagodas, schools, killing men and women, young and old, and dropping fragmentation bombs which are used only to destroy human life.
A destroyed hospital in Tanh Hoa province in the southern part of