‘No Alternative To U.S. Withdrawal’

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30940, 22 December 1965, Page 20

‘No Alternative To U.S. Withdrawal’

(NS. Pratt AMOctaUoit—Copyright; TOKYO, Dec. 21. The Chinese Premier, Mr Chou En-lai said yesterday that there was no alternative to a withdrawal of all United States troops for peace in Vietnam.

| Mr Chou was speaking at a Viet Cong fifth anniversary ceremony in Peking. Ha also denounced euggea- | tions that a pause in the .Untied States bombing of North Vietnam could lead to I peace trike. In his speech, broadcast by the New China News Agency, . he said the people of China are prepared “to fight to the end" if the Vietnam war spreads to the Chinese mainland. Of the war in Vietnam tiaelf, > he arid: “Come what may, the Chineae people will unswervingly side with the fraternal • Vietnamese people and contribute ail out efforts to the de-

feat of United States imperialism, until final victory." He said the Chinese Government supported North Vietnam’s demands. Including a United States troop withdrawal. "The aggressors must withdraw from Vietnam and there can be no other alternative," he said. Any pause to bombing raidr on the North, bo said, woul< “serve only as a amokeoeroe in expanding the war." “The Johnson Admlnlstrd 1 tion has only one object™ ' to mind, namely, to occutfJ Southern Vietnam, perpoi/ ate the division of VietmZ and turn Southern Vietam into its colony and baaef aggression . . . United Stal imperialism will not gtve> thia arrogant attempt until* thorough defeat,” bn aatoT