‘Peace Bid A Fraud’
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter —Copyright) TOKYO, April 15. Communist China today described President Johnson’s latest move towards peace in Vietnam as “an out-and-out, big fraud”, and urged the North Vietnamese to continue fighting. The “People’s Daily”, the official party newspaper, described President Johnson’s offer as “nothing but a stratagem for the United States aggressors to gain a respite and a smokescreen to cover up their scheme of intensifying the war”. It added: “Only by thoroughly defeating the United States aggressors on the battlefield and driving each and every one of their soldiers out of Vietnam soil can the Vietnamese people attain their sacred goal of national liberation and the reunification of their motherland.” President Johnson, the paper said, had made his proposal because of “unprecedented difficulties” plaguing his Administration at home and overseas—the war itself, the dollar crisis, the Negro problem, and "the fierce quarrels within the Unted States ruling circles and its complete isolation in the international sphere.”
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31655, 16 April 1968, Page 15
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