The Vietnam-Cambodia Emergency, 1975...: Hearings Before the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives, Ninety-fourth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 5960 ... H.R. 5961...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1976 - 684 pagini |
Termeni și expresii frecvente
action agencies agreement Air Force airlift Ambassador MARTIN Answer April 29 asked aware believe bloodbath Brian Ellis cable Cambodia Chairman CIA station committee Communist concern continue Danang and Nha DAO compound decision Defense Attaché Office Department Don Luce Duong Van Minh early April economic aid enormous evacuation plans executive branch fact final evacuation flights foreign going HAMILTON Hanoi ICRC Indochina January kind large numbers last day leave Marbod military aid military regions million namese negotiated Nha Trang Nhut number of Vietnamese operation Paris parole authority peace perhaps permit political PONT possible President Thieu pressure propaganda Question received recommendations record refugees Republic of Vietnam request response Secretary senior SOLARZ South Vietnamese South Vietnamese Government Southeast Asia Soviet subcommittee tion U.S. citizens U.S. Congress U.S. Embassy U.S. Government U.S. Mission U.S. Navy understand United USIA Vietnamese employees Vietnamese nationals Washington WINN
Pasaje populare
Pagina 545 - you can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all the people all the time.
Pagina 554 - Vietnamese parties will: — achieve national reconciliation and concord, end hatred and enmity, prohibit all acts of reprisal and discrimination against individuals or organizations that have collaborated with one side or the other; — ensure the democratic liberties of the people: personal freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of meeting, freedom of organization, freedom of political activities, freedom of belief, freedom of movement, freedom of residence, freedom of work,...
Pagina 554 - In pursuance of its traditional policy, the United States will contribute to healing the wounds of war and to postwar reconstruction of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and throughout Indochina.
Pagina 554 - The South Vietnamese people shall decide themselves the political future of South Vietnam through genuinely free and democratic general elections under international supervision. (c) Foreign countries shall not impose any political tendency or personality on the South Vietnamese people.
Pagina 547 - ... the distortions that would be fed to them about his successor as they had about him. The important thing was perhaps the effect his leaving would have on the other side. I said I did not know the answer, but it seemed that most South Vietnamese now seemed to think it would facilitate negotiations. I personally thought it would make little difference. Hanoi would be opposed to any strong leader. They would insist on a much weaker man, if indeed they were really interested in negotiating. But his...
Pagina 554 - Were they ashamed when they committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed; they did not know how to blush.
Pagina 556 - Samuels was a member of the Policy Planning Staff of the Department of State...
Pagina 546 - But it was a difficult time, and perhaps my perceptions were as accurate as those of any other Westerner. A few things were very clear to me. The military situation was very bad, and the Vietnamese people held him responsible for it. The political class, both his supporters and his enemies did not believe he could lead the country out of its present crisis. I said it was my conclusion that almost all of his generals, although they would continue to fight, believed defense was hopeless unless a respite...
Pagina 545 - God knows there is enough blame over two decades to spare a bit for everyone, but the easy way out of blaming the Congress, in my opinion, just won't wash. The President and the Secretary were calling it absolutely right. But, in the temper of the times, this just could not be enough. The negative decision was made inevitable by one of the best propaganda and pressure organizations the world has ever seen.
Pagina 546 - Some would shade reports for personal or bureaucratic advantage, others for fear of hurting him, others because they were afraid of him, others because they did not wish to be the conveyors of bad news. Whatever the reasons, it was difficult at times to perceive things as they really were. I said I was speaking to him only as an individual, not for the President or the Secretary of State, or even as the American Ambassador.