Tunku Unhopeful About Vietnam
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SINGAPORE, August 5. The Malaysian Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman, said today he saw “no possibility of peace in Vietnam at the moment.”
He predicted that the war there would eventually end in stalemate “the same way as the Korean War did." The Tunku made these comments to reporters on his return today from a two-month trip to Europe. He said he found Vietnam the prime topic in the West, while Indonesia’s militant
confrontation of Malaysia was considered “a small matter.” Before a Vietnam solution could be reached the “source of trouble” would have to be traced, he said. “We have to find out who is interfering in South Vietnam,” he said, “the United States or the Communists.” But he indicated his iwn thinking by saying “we can’t expect South Vietnam to fight the Communists alone.” In an apparent bid for more Western aid for his country, the Tunku added: “In the same way, Malaysia can't be expected to fight Indonesia alone.”
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30822, 6 August 1965, Page 11
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