‘De-Americanising’ Of War Wanted
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) WASHINGTON, April 10. Senator Mark Hatfield, a critic of American involvement in Vietnam, said last night he believed the United States should seek to “de-Americanise” the war there.
The Oregon Republican said the “war administration” in tiie White House “has made a grievious error in trying to convince the American people on the basis of distorted history and a distorted map that somehow we have a mission in Vietnam.” He added: “We cannot continue to completely Americanise it as we have and let the South Vietnamese become spectators to their own war. I think we should say to the people of South-east Asia, Whatever the Ameri-
can interests are, yours is the primacy of interests here in this war, therefore you have manpower over and above all other resources, vast quantities of manpower. “We’ll help train, we’ll help equip, we’U help supply, but on a careful scheduled basis you begin to substitute your manpower for our manpower and we’ll thereby de-Ameri-canise a military action.” Senator Hatfield was appearing in a recorded Pennsylvania television-radio programme.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31341, 11 April 1967, Page 17
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