‘ATTACK’ ORDER

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30480, 30 June 1964, Page 13

‘ATTACK’ ORDER

(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) MOSCOW, June 29.

The United States had issued a “combat order for attack” by appointing General M. I). Taylor Ambassador to Vietnam, Tass said yesterday. “The adventurist big stick policy has been and remains the main weapon of the American imperialists,” Tass said.

"It is this aggressive policy that the general in a diplomat’s suit is taking to Saigon.” Mr Pham Van Dong, says that if the United States and, its allies should bomb North Vietnam they would “cer-1 tainly sustain a shameful defeat.” “This is because our whole people will resolutely fight back, because the Socialist countries and progressive peoples the world over will! unreservedly support us, be-'| cause the people of the United States and its allies, too, will oppose them,” he said. U.S. activities in Laos were aimed at encroaching upon the Laos-Vietnam frontier and posing a direct, permanent threat to the security of North Vietnam, he told the National Assembly in Hanoi. It was necessary to reconvene the 14-nation Geneva conference to “avert the danger of au expansion of war in Laos,” he added. From Paris, it is reported that President de Gaulle and the Cambodian chief of state, Prince Norodom Sihanouk, have agreed that General Taylor’s appointment reflected Washington’s determination, to remain firm, but did not herald an extension of the war to North Vietnam. President de Gaulle has promised increased military aid to Cambodia, which Prince Sihanouk claimed was threatened by South Vietnam and Thailand. French financial aid worth £4O million to Cambodia has been confirmed, diplomats said.