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- From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
- Subject: Today's Quote...
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.083514.27711@mont.cs.missouri.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 08:35:14 GMT
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- "I wish to invite the attention of your Excellency for strictly
- humanitarian reasons to following matter. Two million Vietnamese
- died of starvation during winter of 1944 and spring 1945 because of
- the starvation policy of French who seized and stored until it
- rotted all available rice....Three-fourths of cultivated land was
- flooded in summer 1945, which was followed by a severe drought; of
- normal harvest five-sixths was lost....Many people are
- starving....Unless great world powers and international relief
- organizations bring us immediate assistance we face imminent
- catastrophe...."
-
- [p.461, Ho Chi Minh, letter to the UN and President Truman,
- who did not reply, 1945-1946]
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-
- "...Ho had built the Viet Minh into the only Vietnam-wide
- political organization capapble of effective resistance to
- either the Japanese or the French. He was the only
- Vietnamese wartime leader with a national following, and he
- assured himself wider fealty among the Vietnamese people
- when in August-September, 1945, he overthrew the
- Japanese...established the Democratic Republic of Vietnam,
- and staged receptions for in-coming allied occupation
- forces....For a few weeks in September, 1945, Vietnam was--
- for the first and only time in its modern history--free of
- foreign domination, and united from north to south under Ho
- Chi Minh.
-
- [p.461, US Defense Department study of the Vietnam war, from
- _The Pentagon Papers_]
-
-
- The ability of the Viet-Cong continuously to rebuild
- their units and to make good their losses is one of the
- mysteries of the guerrilla war....Not only do the Viet-Cong
- units have the recuperative powers of the phoenix, but they
- have an amazing ability to maintain morale. Only in rare
- cases have we found evidences of bad morale among Viet-Cong
- prisoners or recorded in captured Viet-Cong documents.
-
- [p.466, General Maxwell Taylor, 1964]
-
-
- Somehow this madness must cease. We must stop now. I
- speak as a child of God and brother to the suffering poor of
- Vietnam. I speak for those whose land is being laid waste,
- whose homes are being destroyed, whose culture is being
- subverted. I speak for the poor of America who are paying
- the double price of smashed hopes at home and death and
- corruption in Vietnam. I speak as a citizen of the world,
- for the world as it stands aghast at the path we have taken.
- I speak as an American to the leaders of my own nation. The
- great initiative in this war is ours. The initiative to
- stop it must be ours.
-
- [p.476, Martin Luther King, Jr., 1967, Riverside Church, New
- York]
-
- [Submitted by Jamie Pehling [january@eskimo.celestial.com]]
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