Possible Effect Of N. Vietnam Victory

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30794, 5 July 1965, Page 6

Possible Effect Of N. Vietnam Victory

(N.Z. Press Association—Copy right)

CANBERRA, July 4.

A world war seemed inevitable if the Communists won the Vietnam war, the Liberal Party of Australia said in a booklet released yesterday.

“To view it any other way is to become the dupe of misplaced emotionalism or misleading propaganda,” the booklet said.

If the United States withdrew from South Vietnam the conflict would be renewed in adjacent states now “enjoying” a precarious freedom from Communist control.

“Within a brief period the struggle would move to Thailand?’ the booklet said. “If Thailand were abandoned. Malaysia would be next on the list. “Burma would be menaced and Indonesia, with its strong Communist Party, would be drawn within the sphere of Peking’s power and influence.” New Kind Of War

The booklet is titled “The Facts About South Vietnam” and the introduction reads:

“Communist propaganda is designed to present the conflict in South Vietnam as a civil war.

“It is a new kind of war—a new kind of aggression. Failure to understand this has led to much confusion in the minds of many well-inten-tioned people. “In Vietnam, a Communist Government, employing the guerrilla warfare tactics that were successful in China, has set out to conquer a sovereign people in a neighbouring state.

“The guerrilla warfare in South Vietnam is directed by the military high command in Hanoi.

“General Giap, head of the North Vietnamese armed forces, has said ‘if the war of liberation technique suceeds in Vietnam it can succeed everywhere in the world’.” Fits Pattern The war fits into the pattern proclaimed by Peking that the real focus of revolutionary struggle is now in the under-developed areas of the world and that the real leader of this struggle is the Chinese Communist Party. The booklet said the Australian Government had correctly analysed the situation in South Vietnam.

“It believes —and the weight of evidence supports it—that United States action in aiding the Government of South Vietnam is necessary for the defeat of aggression against Asian peoples and is also an essential step towards the building in Asia of the conditions of peace and progress.”