Non-aggression pacts

Press, 11 March 1983, Page 16

Non-aggression pacts

Sir,—Mark Sadler (March 8) praises my “perfectly valid criticisms of American-supported evils,” criticises my not criticising the U.S.S.R. I could, but the American propaganda underlying our news services does that continuously, repeated ad nauseam by H. F. Newman. That propaganda is preparing us for an anti-Communist jihad, and abhorring war, social injustice and falsehood. I must expose it. For instance, today's “Giap comes clean” about North Vietnam’s lies is incorrect itself, by implying that America’s sending 685 “advisers” in 1961 — after the Ho Chi Minh trail was begun — was America’s initial military build-up in Vietnam. America, which had no shred of right to interfere in Indo-China, hampered the Geneva Conference on the Cessation of Hostilities, 1956. and began military aid to Ngo Dinh Diem in January, 1955, four years before

North Vietnam began the Ho Chi Minh trail. When will someone (Kissinger?) from the Pentagon “come clean” about America's lies. — Yours, etc., SUSAN TAYLOR. March 8, 1983.