VIETNAM REALITIES

Mr. Jim Killen M.P. in the Australian Parliament recently called for the realistic policy in the Vietnam War of "blowing out of the water" the port facilities in Haiphong Harbour. Air Vice- Marshal Ky warned President Johnson at their recent conference that they would eventually have to deal with the source of the aggression in Vietnam - China. Senator Barry Goldwater in Washington accused Senator J. William Fulbright who wants America out of Vietnam, of "giving aid and comfort to our enemies". Goldwater also labels Secretary of Defence Robert S. McNamara "the most irresponsible man in America" and asserts that ammunition and manpower shortages in Vietnam are reaching scandalous proportions. Do we read these things in the press?

Maybe if we look hard and long enough. We are more likely to read the general view being parroted by Mr. Calwell and his mentor Dr. Cairns that the Vietnam War is unwinnable. Or The Australian 11.5.66 reporting,
"The enemy in Vietnam continues to confound the experts of the United States". It points out that despite tremendous enemy losses and continuous bombing of the Ho Chi Minh trail, their numbers are increasing, and supplies continue to flow to the Viet Cong. Might we bring to the notice of the "confounded experts" the report from Saigon in The Australian 14.5.66
"Senior U.S. Air Force officers believe the Vietnam War cannot be won under present restrictions on North Vietnam Targets." These officers point out that frequently requests for permission to bomb the sanctuary airfields close to Hanoi and Haiphong have been refused. "No strikes against enemy airfields have been authorised."

As countless military experts have pointed out, the port of Haiphong is open to shipping and is the main source of supplies. We suspect that the above "confounded experts" may have a sneaking regard for the philosophy of dear Uncle Ho. However pressure against the "no-win" strategists is mounting. The real experts who actually do the fighting are beginning to be heard.

AIR-MARSHAL KY AND THE BUDDHISTS

Now that Air Marshal Ky has taken the fight right up to the Communist infiltrated Buddhist groups in South Vietnam we can prepare ourselves for the great propaganda onslaught. It will be the anti-Diem campaign all over again.
One outstanding truth in both campaigns seems to escape the gullible. There was no evidence in the lifetime of the Diem regime of anti-Buddhist policies as was testified to be a U.N. investigation team. Nor has Air-Marshal Ky instigated such policies. But the Buddhists under the leadership of Thich Tri Quang boast of how they brought down eight governments in South Vietnam thus creating the base of confusion and chaos so necessary to the success of Communist revolution.

The Rev. Daniel Lyons S. J. in the May 1st issue of Our Sunday Visitor reports that two brothers of Thich Tri Quang live in North Vietnam and are prominent Communists there. Thich Tri Quang is continuously reported to have direct access to the NIF the political arm of the Viet Cong. The reality of the war in South Vietnam is political subversion, not military power.

CONTRAST ON RHODESIA

THE COMMUNISTS AND "WOMEN AT WORK"

"OBJECTIVE" REPORTING ON VIETNAM

In the Melbourne Herald 11.9.63 their great authority on South East Asia, Mr. Denis Warner, wrote of "the red eyed, overworked Americans, who, having risked their lives fighting the Communist Viet Cong, are now on the death lists prepared by the gangster groups and special forces controlled by the supreme counselor Ngo Dinh Nhu, and his wife."

This type of reporting which history now reveals contained not one word of truth consistently marked the campaign to destroy the Diem regime at a time when they were making headway against the Communists. Warner harped upon the supposed anti-Buddhist campaign conducted by the Catholic Diem government thereby using one of the standard tactics of Communist divisionary innuendo. The truth was that the Buddhists had more than equal representation in the Diem government.
Today Warner is doing the same thing to discredit Air-Marshal Ky.

In his report in the Melbourne Herald l7.5.66 while acknowledging that Ky is getting on top of the situation he plays up the appointment of a Catholic General to command the South Vietnamese 1st Corps. The whole inference is that Ky is doing the same thing as Diem. There is no suggestion that Ky is desperately doing what is best for Vietnam to bring about the defeat of Communism.
Playing the divisive game suits the Communists fine, especially when they are being defeated in the military field. It is highly doubtful that a man of Warner's experience does not know this.

SEAMEN'S UNION AND VIET WAR

WORLD COUNCIIL OF CHURCHES AND GENEVA CONFERENCE

A recent report from former F.B.I. undercover agent in the Communist Party, Herbert Philbrick reveals that their clerical dupes plan to control the forthcoming Geneva conference in July 1966. Preliminary organising is aimed at using the theme of the conference, "Church and Society" as a propaganda forum on the evils of "fascism, imperialism and anti-Communism".
It will be asserted that, "the cold war has come about through the crusading ideology of fanatical anti-Communism", to which "hundreds of thousands were sacrificed in the last months."
The dialectical line is clear. It is evil to fight Communism, and moral to promote it.

Christians must decide within the next few years whether it is moral to own property, choose your own vocation, retain national sovereign government, and retain family life as sacrosanct, with choice over the education and control of one's children. These are the bones of Christianity. To clothe them in flesh is another task.

BRITAIN : EUROPE. LARGER UNION PROPOSED

The role of the socialists in bringing about the eventual world Communist State, is seen clearly in the recent statement by Mr. George Brown, Britain's Deputy Prime Minister reported in The Australian 16.5.66. Mr. Brown said,
"We want to be members of an expanded community which would include all kinds of other countries. We see no reason for example, why we should exclude Iron Curtain countries. Europe does not end at the Iron Curtain."

All this and E.C.M. too will ensure the destruction of Britain's independence and the submergence of her people along with other national European groups into the impersonal world collective state. Thomas Jefferson was reported to have said that, "disobedience to tyrants is obedience to God," It is more than time that there was an increase of disobedience in accepting the tyranny of the omnipotent state.