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KOREA: THE NEXT TEST?
In the wake of t he Vietnam debacle,
Korea appears a likely prospect for the
next test of U.S. strength.
ONLY BRITAIN CAN
SAVE BRITAIN
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As the Common Market referendum date
draws near, the "Battle of Europe" is
raging throughout Britain.
THE MI$SING·DIMENSION
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IN SEX
The editor -in-chief begins a series of
articles based on his 19 71 book about
man's favorite subject.
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l'j!QRE t:HE FALL
Plain Truth Managing Editor Arthur .A.
Ferdig was in Saigon six weeks before
its fall. His text and pictures tell of "a
beautiful land worth fighting for."
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THE CRY OF RAPE
Recent court decisions have reduced the
cry of rape to a muffled plea for justice
and merey by the victim.
ORCHIDS AND ONIONS
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We received one genuine grade A onion,
plus a few onions on paper, but we're
giving the orchids equal time.
GARNER TED ARMSTRONG
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SPEAKS OUT
ls America spiritually bankrupt? The
Editor cites the proofs that America
suffers from ·· spiritual poverty."
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IN BRIEF
General Counsel to the editor-in-chief,
Stanley R. Rader, summarizes his recent
travels and contacts with world léaders.
AfliR VIITNAM-
NIW IRA Df UNCIRTAINTY
Alter more than 30 years of contin·
uous conflict in lndochina,
~he
guns of
war have at last fallen silent. The events
of 1hose three decades, however, will
leave an indelible mark upon the con·
duct of world affairs for years to come.
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But what Saigon had hoped would be
an orderly pullback became instead a
total rout.
Then, on Apri l 30, 1975, Saigon sur–
rendered to the Yiet <;:ong following a
hasty, American evacuation . The final
tally: 56,000 Americans and over one
million Vietnamese soldiers killed; hun¡
dreds of thousands of civilian casualties;
and óver $150 billion expended.
From the beginnings of U .S. in·
volvement in lndochina. American
offi~
cials defined "winniñg" as. preserving
South Vietnamese independence. With
the fall of Saigon, therefore. the Unit ed
States has been
defested
in its purpose
Worfdwide Domino Effect
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thwaned by a thiró-rate agrarian
London·s
Osi/y
Telt~grsph
decribes
· power. How did the worfd's most pow. Saigon's surrender as "world commu-
eñul nation manage_to gpt.itself entan- .nism's biggest victory. the free world's
gled in Vietnam - the longest war in biggest defeat:•
American history - and what will be
The victory of Nonh Vietnam, it has
the ramifications of its defeat?
been observed, highlights the dis-
The blood of this tragic epoch first
tinctions between a truly imperialist
began to flow during World War 11 when power and a status quo power. The So-
Japanese torces occupied lndochina,
viet Union - ' despite its continua! la-
supplanting the French who had rúled
beling ot the U.S. as "imperialist" :.....
there since the Jast hall of the 19th energetically seeks to expon its ideology
century. Ho Chi Minh, leader of the around the world . The United States. ·on
communist Vietminh, resisted the Japa- the other hand, appears content with
ne;¡e .OCCU.pation w ith support f rom the the currerit limits óf its influence. A
tiuly
United Statés. Foii<>Wing· Japan's sur·
imperialist power haS' the inherent ad-
rér\der' ln" Ti145,- ""Ao " 'ChT' Miñ'h" "p ró- - van1age·;;nñooi,eñfÜmahll"pÜrpose"'="
claimed Viefnam's independence.
a fact demonstrated by the unflinchrllg
The
French returned. however, seek-
Soviet support of Hanoi in stark cdntrast
ing to reassen colonial rule, but met · with America·s reluctance to supply Sai-
deterrnined Vietminh resistance. U.S.
gon with additional military aid.
·
involvement began in 1950 with Presi·
While the Soviet Union knows what it
dent Truman's decision to aid the wants, the U.S. today stands divided.
French torces. Nevenheless. French
mi~
After World War. 11. when Americe was
itary power was shattered in
~ay
1954, the world's most poweñul nation. there
w ith the fall of the key city of Dien Bien
was general unity on foreign policy:
' Phu to the Vietminh. Vietnam was soon
communism, at ihe least, should be
afterward partitioned t¡y a Geneva contained. Sur now. that unity has dis-
agreement into a nonhern portian under sipated.
Ho Chi Minh's communist regime anda
In fact, with the recent congressional
non-communist south under Ngo Dinh
assenion in fóreign policy, there- is no
Oiem.
longar even a consensus on whether the
President Eisenhower pledged eco-
U. S. should remain a global superpower
nomic and military aid to the new South on par with the Soviet Union. or even
Vietnamese regime. His prime motiva-
whether it should continue honoring its
tion was the ..Domino Theory" that all various treaty obligations.
Southeast Asia would fall to the commu·
The effects of this change in Ameñ-
nists should South Vietnam succumb:
can thinking are not lost on the rest of
The number of U .S. "adviser's" grad-
the world. Notably, seeds of doubt have
ually increased under President Ken-
been planted in.Western Europe. Lon-
nedy. The Johnson years (1 963-68) don's
Daily Telegraph
asks: "What
saw a major escalation of troop levels.
about European members of NATO?
accompanied by growing anti-war
sent~
Can they go on as if nOthing has hap-
ment in the United 5tates.
pened?" And West Gerrnany's
Frank·
While de-<lscalation began duñng the
furtér Allegemeine
wonders out loud in
final Johnson months, it was President
front-page page editorials about the
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Nixon who .presided over U.S. troop strengthofthe U.S. commitment
to
Europa.
withdrawals and the "Vietn3mitation"
An American lapsa into isolationism
program, leading to the París "peace"
following on the heels of the lndochii'la
agreement of ·January 1973. Commu- debacle is being viewed both wíthin the
nist pressure continued, however, anda
U.S. and around the
wortd
as a real
Watergate-crippled ·presidency was un- potentiality. President Ford himself
able to act decisively against blatant fears jusi such a reaction, noting re.
communist violations of the cease-tire.
cently that he is "reminded precisely of
Just before South Vietnam's ill-fated
the days of 1920 and 1930, when no
withdrawal from the highlands earlier one thought we were ever going to war
this year, it' had become dear to Saigon
again,"
that American aid was to be cut still
11 Mr. Ford is drawing a valid parallel,
funher. The Saigon government con- then a majar worid conflagration follow-
cluded, therefore, that it had to retreat
ing in the wake of U.S. isolationism be·
'to more easi ly defensible perimeters.
comes a grim possibility. O
WEEK ENDINO MAY 24, 1975