Vietnamese refugees

Press, 17 July 1979, Page 29

Vietnamese refugees

Sir, —Tire right place for these people, who refuse to accept a new type of popular government and democratic regime, is at home assisting in socialist reconstruction of a country devastated for decades by the barbarism of French, American and Chinese imperialism assisted by sycophantic henchmen. No doubt the Vietnamese Government has no regret at the departure of a tiny element of its 43 million population, a negligible number morally and economically corrupted by the several occupation forces. It is true that there is no future for a net emergence of private enterprise as this is constitutionally prohibited, for a million small enterprises, as in the past, would evolve into a Western-style antipeople’s banking-integrated monopoly more powerful than the State. However thousands of these people, instead of helping lay the foundations of a new society, prefer to desert. So why detain a negative minority seeking the fleshpots of the “free” world?—Yours, etc., W. J. COLLINS. July 12, 1979.