Hanoi And Peking Differ On Vietnam

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31134, 10 August 1966, Page 15

Hanoi And Peking Differ On Vietnam

Press Association—Copyrtynt) BELGRADE, August 9. Jugoslavia's official news agency, Tanjug, and one of the country’s leading newspapers today reported signs of political differences between China and North Vietnam.

A dispatch from Cambodia carried by Tanjug said observers in recent weeks had “noted Peking and Hanoi have begun to dissociate in their views on individual political issues.” In the daily newspaper “Borba” an article by its Cam-

bodian correspondent. Radoslav Jovic, referred to signs that China and North Vietnam are at odds on certain issues. The Tanjug correspondent’s] report said the Chinese President, Mr Liu Shao-chi, has said the Geneva Agreements on Indo-China of 1954 are null and void and that, at any rate, they are not binding on China. North Vietnam on the other hand, the correspondent said, links the way out of the war with these agreements, under which it has formulated its well-known four points for peace. PLOT SEEN Peking has denounced the call by the Indian Prime Min ister, Mrs Indira Gandhi, and other world statesmen for a reconvening of the Geneva conference to seek peace as a Soviet-American-Indian plot, the Tanjug correspondent said.

Hanoi, in contrast, has never done so, he said. He also said: “It is becoming increasingly evident that Hanoi values the concrete aid in arms and ammunition being extended to it by some countries more highly than the stories about the transitoriness of life coming to it from Peking. “All in all. observers in Cambodia conclude Hanoi is obviously taking a logical standpoint." he said, “It is being stated, however, that differences have also ex-

isted earlier between Peking and Hanoi but have never reached any substantial degree." Observers point out, however, that it would be wrong to assume an outright “rift" between Peking and Hanoi, he added. The correspondent ofj "Borba” in an article from!

Phnom Penh, said that “Peking considers American planes paper dragons. "Hanoi has felt that they are made of steel. . . . “The people in North Vietnam had been hearing daily Chinese slogans about paper dragons. But they esteemed, and today still esteem, only military assistance, weapons, cannons and other material aid for the country's defence from aggression, in order to heal the wounds inflicted daily by the American bombers.

“Apparently the people hold much more in esteem aid from those who do not accompany their aid with a tract about how easily lif* passes." The newspaper also warned ( however, that it would be very wrong to suppose tha [there is a definite rift b I tween Peking and Hanoi."