Khanh Wants To Fight Again

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30569, 12 October 1964, Page 13

Khanh Wants To Fight Again

(N .Z.P. A.-Reuter—Copy rig ht)

SAIGON, October 10. Major-General Nguyen Khanh today asked that a new Prime Minister be appointed

quickly so that he coul forces “to fight day and His request was made in a letter sent both to the acting Chief of State, Major-General Duong van Minh and to the High National Council which is working on plans for a new government. General Khanh agreed at the end of August, after religious and political riots, to hand over government to civilians by October 17. The High National Council, a 17-man body consisting of respected community leaders announced that it will be ready to announce a new provisional constitution next week. Sources close to the council said the first draft had been completed yesterday and it was being tidied up over the week-end. General Khanh recalled in his letter that his government was only carrying on in a caretaker capacity until October 27. “I have done my best to overcome all difficulties to carry out my mission and

Id return to the armed night.” complete the armed forces revolution,” he wrote. “I will return to my post as a general in order to fight day and night together with my comrades in arms to preserve this last piece of earth of the free Vietnamese. “I am confident that the Vietnamese armed forces will entirely support a government which enjoys the confidence of all the people,” General Khanh’s letter said. Dancing Win.—A British team, Mr R. Taylor and Miss A. Gent, last night won the 1964 world amateur ballroom dancing championships at the Sydney Town Hall.