McGovern Derides Ky

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31866, 19 December 1968, Page 17

McGovern Derides Ky

(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) WASHINGTON, Dec. 17. Senator George McGovern said today the United States should start withdrawing its forces from Vietnam immediately and called Vice-President Nguyen Cao Ky a “little tinhorn dictator . . . playing round in the plush spots of Paris.”

The South Dakota Democrat senator, who briefly emerged in August as a Presidential hopeful running on a Vietnam peace ticket, also suggested the United States and North Vietnam reach an agreement on a prisoner exchange, Hanoi releasing American airmen held in the north in return for North Vietnamese prisoners held by the United States in the South. “The United States should immediately begin pulling its troops out of Vietnam with all possible speed,” Senator McGovern said in a statement. “It is obvious General Ky and our other so-called allies in South Vietnam are trying to stall the negotiations in Paris. “While Ky is playing

around in the plush spots of Paris and haggling over whether he is going to sit at a round table or a rectangular table, American men are dying to prop his corrupt regime back home,” he said. “Haven’t we had enough of this little tinhorn dictator who wastes American tax funds in Paris and American blood in Vietnam?”