PARIS, FRANCE WORLD WARS I AND II taught that political upheaval is an inevitable by-product of defeat .

Ensure national humiliation and a climate is created for the toppling of any government, leader, tradition or system on which rabble-rousers elect to hang the blame . Communism is the ultimate beneficiary. Failing a disastrous war, incitement of revolution within a nation's colonies, accompanied by internal sabotage of the mother country's counter-effort, will achieve the same effect . America, following World War II, became intoxicated with the word "anti-colonialism" . Today the ex-colonies in which she encouraged revolts are anti-American, and the mother countries on which she forced surrender are unstable . With the sobering-up period at hand it is time that each American do some reflecting . To ruthless men bent on attaining power, military defeat is the way-clearer of the perfect coup-d'etat, which is to say one in which a majority is maneuvered into giving it legality . America's role in ensuring victory for the elements bent on carrying France into the antiWestern camp through surrender in Algeria is a case in point. It is the men responsible for this role who stand as defendants before many Americans in this January of 1965 . But first, in building up the case, let us weigh the methods employed and the ends envisaged.

VOLUME VII, LETTER 8 JANUARY, 1965

FOREIGN AFFAIRS LETTER

H. du B. REPORTS

PARALLEL WITH THE APPROACHING DEFEAT , a defeat which those kept in power by an apathetic public made inevitable, America is being worked by a campaign for national disarmament. And parallel with the campaign for dismantling America's national defenses is a program for immobilizing patriots who might resist . Those who agitated revolts in the colonies of our allies and made our approaching debacle inevitable also planned our disarmament, submission to the United Nations, and the stifling of any protest within America. A chro nology of events and portrayal of their interweavings is in order .

A "DISINFORMATION BUREAU OF THE ESPIONAGE AND COUNTER-ESPIONAGE COMMITTEE FOR STATE SECURITY " is located in Moscow, within a gray stone edifice that formerly housed an insurance company on Dzherzhinsky Square . It blankets Russia, her satellites and dupes throughout the world, with false propaganda . Official agencies and a dishonest press have performed the same service within America, often parrotting the Moscow line . In 1964 six out of ten Americans told a Gallup poll that they did notknow what was going on in South Vietnam. How could they, when the version was ever changing? In 1946 NEWSWEEK'S Far East ace, Harold R . Isaacs, told readers of Harper's Magazine that Ho chi Minh was an Asiatic George Washington who kept life in his frail body only through singleness of purpose and purity of aim. Obscenities were heaped on French officers who opposed him. Ten years later, (Jan. , 1956) thwarted in the Ho campaign, Harper's got behind Ngo dinh Diem, described as Senator Mansfield's godson. By September, 1962, along with President Kennedy and the head of Diem's lobby in America, Chief of Protocol Angier Biddle Duke, Harper's washed its hands of Diem and printed Professor Stanley Millet's "Terror in Vietnam - An American's ordeal at the hands of our friends" . Then came December, 1964 . Out of America's Dzherzhinsky Square came the new line . Harper's printed Joe Kraft's call for America to get out of South Vietnam and let North and South negotiate between themselves, a palatable way of saying let Ho chi Minh have it . From Harold Isaacs, through Mike Mansfield and Professor Millet to the final write-off of Joe Kraft, that in brief is the story of America's downhill road in Southeast Asia . PAUSE HERE FOR A SHORT BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH . Mr . Kraft received the 1959 New York Overseas Press Club Award for his Saturday Evening Post report extolling the Algerian rebellion, then being jointly backed by Washington and Moscow . Though he no doubt knew of it, Mr .- Kraft wrote nothing on the March, 1960, mission of Algerian UN representative Abdelkader Chanderli to draw up an accord with Castro ; nor have any articles come from the Kraft pen since on Algeria's training of North Vietnamese to fight against Americans, arming of Dr . Carlson's assassins in the Congo and rebels in Angola, and attacks on America in UN . OUR POLICY IN VIETNAM BOOMERANGED , as did our policy in Algeria. By December, 1964, UPI was reporting General Nguyen Khanh's launching of an "anti-U . S. drive" . The same volatile, ungovernable Vietnamese whom Harold Isaacs, General Philip D. Gallagher, OSS officers and others played against the French in 1945 and '46 Khanh started" playing against America. In ten years History made a complete turn of the wheel.

Pie 2 In September, 1964, Nguyen ton Hoan, the only civilian leader with both a party and determination to fight the Viet Cong, was driven out of Vietnam by General Nguyen Khanh, with General Maxwell Taylor's approval. (H. du B . REPORTS, Sept. and Oct ., 1964) . By December Nguyen Khanh, whose brother is an official in Ho chi Minh's government, prepared to run out Maxwell Taylor . Hoan was destroyed in the mind of the American public by the Washington WORLD (Dec. 2, 1963), The Allen and Scott Report (Nov. 9, 1963) and every American report but this one, preliminary to Khanh's creating a void by ousting him. Then Michael Padev observed, with an air of futility, in the Indianapolis Star of Dec. 22, 1964, "As they say in politics, you can't beat somebody with nobody. " On Sept . 27, 1962, HUMANITE, the French communist daily, branded Hoan a war-monger selected by America as Vietnam's future premier . In 1963 the de Gaullist press said Hoan was unacceptable to the South Vietnamese because he was committed to continuation of the war and against neutralism . The Hanoi government, in a 103-page booklet called "The Hour of Coups d' Etats in Saigon", concentrated its attack on Hoan as "the puppet of the Americans" . So, by joint American-communist action the man Hanoi did not want was destroyed . Allen and Scott are generally conservative in their Washington reporting. Someone enjoying their confidence undoubtedly fed them the false line on Nguyen ton Hoan covered in detail in our Sept Report. But what of the feature story out of Saigon by Warren Rogers, Washington Bureau Chief of Hearst Headline Service, on Sept. 21, 1964, as Albert Pham ngoc Thao (Ho chi Minh's former chief of Intelligence in Cochin-China) was being appointed press attache to the Vietnamese embassy in Washington? (H. du B. REPORT, Oct . 1964) . Thao headed the secret police of Ngo dinh Nhu until Nov. , 1963 . His first act on receiving the Washington appointment was to see that the bills left in America by Mme . Nhu were paid. THE BRUTAL EFFICIENCY WITH WHICH THE VIETMINH BROKE THEIR PRISONERS is one of the horror chapters of the Ho chi Minh war . In "La Guerre d'Indochine", Lucien Bodard gives a chilling account of tough foreign legionnaires reduced to robots. Theoretically, American hatred should be focused on the perpetrator of such atrocities and sympathy accorded the victim . Warren Rogers, however, by a far-out twisting of logic, makes Albert Pham ngoc Thao, the communist breaker of human beings, a hero, and General Duong van Duc, whom Thao reduced to pulp, the villain. And Duc 's anger that Thao should break other Vietnamese for nine years as Ngo dinh Nhu's right-hand man, andthen, after Nhu's fall, become Nguyen Khanh's press attache, Rogers pooh-poohs as a despicable personal gripe . Why? What is behind this sort of reporting? Why did no editor throw it out? Why didn't an avalanche of mail from disgusted readers repudiate it?

The Dai Viet Party, of which Hoan was the head, was organized at Hanoi University in 1939 . As late as early 1958 its clandestine radio was still heard in Saigon, hunted by Diem, the communists and the Americans . Rogers told Hearst readers that the Dai Viet Party was founded by Hoan and Duc and an insignificant bunch of plotters in a Paris res taurant . After Diem's death, according to Rogers, Hoan and Duc returned to Vietnam, where "both prospered as generals" . Actually, Hoan, founder of the first "disintoxication program" in Vietnam, to win Vietnamese youth back from the communists, was never a general . OUT OF THE MAZE OF DOUBLE TALK AND OUTRIGHT DISHONEST REPORTING to which the American public was subjected emerges a picture of step by step progression to a destiny that from the start was discernible . First, communism as an internal threat was declared non-existent . Attention was directed to the "victories" being won against communism on the other side of the world . In truth there were no victories . Every policy decision destined to make America's eventual defeat inevitable was sold to the public as a move against communism. And the fictitious victories were used to justify disarmament . Walter Lippman's column of Christmas week, 1964, stated, "We have now been involved in this area (Vietnam) for something like fifteen years, first in supporting France until she was defeated and then on our own. " Having sowed the hurricane, each liberal now sets as the date for our involvement a year unlikely to involve the American Left. The true "first period" of our involvement, that of our support of Ho chi Minh against the French, is ignored as though it never existed .

Page - 3 The same sort of reporting on Vietnam was given readers of The American Legion Magazine in December, 1964, by Gerald Steibel, political writer for the Research Institute of America, which is headed by Mr . Leo Cherne . Steibel moved the year of American involvement to an even more favorable date--1953 . But here let us pause again while we sort out another group of eels from the Vietnam basket . While heading The International Rescue Committee (referred to on P. 12 of Dec. American Legion Magazine) Mr . Cherne, Angier Biddle Duke and Joseph Buttinger also ran The American Friends of Vietnam, the out-and-out lobby for Ngo dinh Diem . On June 27, 1955, Mr . Cherne's friend and fellow director, the Austrian socialist Joseph Buttinger, presented Ho chi Minh in The New Leader as the man the West should have supported in the first place, and Diem as the West's hope in 1955 . In New Leader of May 12, 1958, with no indication that they were associated as directors of Diem's lobby, Mr . Cherne praised the book intended to establish Buttinger as an authority on South Vietnam. So it is not surprising that Germany's socialist leader, Willy Brandt, not the West's friend Adenauer, was selected by Messrs . Duke, Cherne and Buttinger as the second recipient of the Admiral Byrd Award to Free World Leaders, a propaganda gimmick created for Ngo dinh Diem in 1957 . The Research Institute Recommendations letter of Nov. 6, 1964, tells us, "West German Socialist Willy'Brandt is pro-American, pro-free enterprise, anti-Marxist ." (For the true picture of Willy Brandt see H. du B. REPORTS, March-April, 1961 .) In other words, the clique imposing Diem on America and South Vietnam simultaneously groomed Willy Brandt for power in West Germany via an Erhard Now National Research Institute Recommendations for Dec. 4, 1964, states detour . that "Red China's admission to UN is inevitable--next Fall if not this session; and some kind of negotiated settlement in Vietnam and Laos is equally inevitable . The deal will be for 'negotiation', probably policed by the UN ." Put it all together and you have the way creeping socialization is worked . THE NEW LINE IS "NEGOTIATED NEUTRALISM", a sort of cousin policy to "negotiated disarmament" . It will provide an interim, face-saving period for America before a complete Ho chi Minh take-over of the country in which we have built atomic reactors, roads, sewage disposal, communication networks, industrial plants, water works and hamlets . The men who were thwarted in their attempt to give Indo-China to Ho chi Minh in 1945 and '46, and then in 1954 took the Diem detour, are about to rake in all the chips on the table. WALTER LIPPMAN, ONE OF THE GOLDWATER ASSASSINS OF 1964, writes (Dec . 23, 1964), "We cannot find a Vietnamese government which is able to use and has the will to use the weapons, the economic and military assistance we are providing. " The truth is, this is the situation our planners brought about. Every Vietnamese, able and determined to lead his people against Ho chi Minh our Lippmans and their ilk destroyed in advance.

On Dec. 1, 1964, NBC gave Americans an hour-long documentary on "The Mad War in South Vietnam", with Chet Huntley as narrator . The tone was defeatist . Helicopter pilots did not know why they were in South Vietnam; they complained they were out-gunned, Complete hopelessness--a ground-paving for exit by negotiation between Vietnamese--formed the undercurrent of the Huntley report . Diem's subterranean dungeons, located in Saigon's botanical gardens, were touched on in passing. Conservative Americans assumed that if Huntley mentioned them they were non-existent, and the American press remained silent : For eight and a half years Diem and his family had been held up as perfect, so it would be embarrassing to admit the existence of dungeons and torture chambers now . This gratuitous silence is part of another campaign toward a definite goal . Ostensibly it is anti-communist ; in reality it is communist-serving. The thesis is that Diem and his brother were spotless and efficacious after all, and that communist triumph, now thatthey are gone, is inevitable . To support it, back we go to the fictitious victories that were first used to lull the American public and now to dishearten it . MISS MARGUERITE HIGGINS, IN THE WASHINGTON STAR OF DEC . 2, put her widelyread column at the disposal of a Viet Cong prisoner named Captain Ba . Ba's objective was to discourage America, to destroy the American public's will to continue the fight. His theme : The ousting and assassination of Diem and Nhu was a great victory for the Viet Cong . (It was, but only as an American admission of mistake.) Beyond Ba's first objective of discouragement is another aim: The rehabilitation of the group that through the Diem detour pushed South Vietnam into the arms of Ho chi Minh . Marguerite Higgins

Page 4 should have known that anything a Viet Cong wants printed is a ruse . What of Miss Higgins' judgment? Go back through the files. Read every column Miss Higgins wrote on the Algerian FLN. Look at Algeria today. You have the answer . THE CAUTIOUS ATTITUDE OF PRESIDENT JOHNSON AND STATE DEPARTMENT, while the American public is being conditioned for a sell-out, is best illustrated by the change of tone in TIME Magazine . On April 4, 1955, TIME told its swindled readers that, though able to count on the support of only one-fourth of his villages, Diem was the leader Viet nam was going to have . Following the counsel of his American advisors, he went slowly, invited negotiations, stalled for time and destroyed his anti-communist enemies one by one. Opposition, if it existed, was only "the wily rear-guard maneuvers of colonialism" . By Feb. 1957 TIME had "a country at peace where one can journey from one end to the other. . . and never worry about Vietminh bandits night or day" . (The truth was, Ho was rebuilding the army he sacrificed at Dien Bien Phu to gain a victory that would impress the West . In 1957 over 470 village chiefs were assassinated in South Vietnam. Those that survived did so by working at night for the Viet Cong .) Through '61 and '62 TIME gave us one smashing victory after another in Vietnam, though in 1960 the big set-backs had already started and the number of village heads assassinated for the year had jumped to 13, 000 . By July 26, 1963, TIME was admitting that "discontents need not have erupted if government troops had not gunned down nine Buddhist demonstrators at Hue ." Eighteen months elapse . The collapse gains momentum . The "Diem and Nhu are gone, so everything is lost" line is being tentatively introduced . TIME suddenly becomes mealy-mouthed; Buddhist persecution under Diem is described as "real or fancied" . TIME and Johnson are ready to jump either way. Bryton Barron, one of the foremost authorities in America on communist subversion in our government, added to the confusion. Leaving a field that he knew, Barron wrote a foreword for a short book by Madame Suzanne Labin in which he took up the true-culprit-whitewash and inevitability of defeat theme of Captain Ba. Back to TIME of 1961 and '62 went Bryton Barron: Until Diem and Nhu were killed, the war in Vietnam was being won. THE SALES OF MADAM LABIN'S "EYEWITNESS STORY " of the Nov. 1, 1963, coup d'etat in Saigon soared . It was advertised in THE WANDERER as the book "all Catholics should read" . "Why is the Catholic hierarchy of the United States silent about the atrocities being perpetrated on the Catholics of Vietnam by the Kennedy-Johnson Administration?" scream e d th e WANDERER ad vertisement . The tr uth was that Cardinal Spe llman ha d already had his fingers burned by Ngo dinh Diem . Also worth noting: The clique vindicated by Madame Labin's "Eyewitness Story" is more powerful than those members of the Kennedy-Johnson Administration blackened by it, for the author has no trouble getting visas to America. "Eyewitness Story" is in English, for American consumption. Few if any of the bona fide French authorities on Indo-China., such as Jean Larteguy, Lucien Bodard and Georges Chaffard are likely to see it . On the other hand, such writings as Madame Labin's piece in COMBAT, of April 14, 1960, are for French consumption and carefully guarded from Americans . A significant paragraph goes, "During my passage through Saigon I found the address of the leader of the Socialist Party in the telephone directory, listed as such, though he was leading an active opposition against President Diem . I would give a great deal to find Mr . X. , Secretary of the Liberal Party, listed in the Hanoi directory and be able to telephone him and have him able to invite one to lunch in a public place and over dessert lift his glass to the forthcoming unseating of the President in office as did my comrade of the S. F. I. O. in Saigon. " (S. F. I. O. mean s "French Section of the Workers' International--the French Socialist Party.) The intellectual dishonesty of the COMBAT article is obvious. Why should telephone listing of a Socialist opposition leader be proof of Diem's tolerance, if no one but the nonentities selected by Diem were permitted to run against him? And if Diem alone were effective against communism, why should Mme. Labin have clinked glasses with her socialist comrade to Diem's "forthcoming unseating"? A previous booklet by Mme . Labin, "The Unrelenting War", appeared in America in 1962, edited by Moshe Dekter, of the NEW LEADER . In it her proposal for the anticommunist struggle was a "super-national union", essentially the line given the American people when the Internation Confederation of Free Trade Unions was being formed in Brussels to mobilize world labor and fight communism by destroying colonialism. Today's chaos in Africa and structural creakings in Europe area direct result . The above may provide a clue as to how French Suzanne Labin happened to be sponsored by

Page 5 . the same State Department which Bryton Barron denounces to write a pamphlet on "The Technique of Soviet Propaganda" and how she so easily made the Congressional Record while valid American anti-Communists are torn to shreds . As a foreign partisan of the Diem family, though drinking to its defeat with her Socialist comrade, Madame Labin was shielded from the sufferings of .the people and so able to write in the Washington WORLD of July 24, 1962, "Nothing, indeed could justify a revolt of the Vietnamese masses . " Not so Diem's immediate family who knew what the score was. In that same summer of 1962 Diem's niece, the wife of Tran trung Dung, former Secretary of State for Defense, visited Paris. Her friends asked how things were going at home . "How can I be optimistic", she replied . "The people detest my family . One of these days we will all be lynched. I am making my plans to take refuge in Paris before it is too late . I ask myself what the Ngo family is waiting for that they do not get out of there before they are massacred." (Indochine - Dix ans d'Independence, by Georges Chaffard) . How could nine years of American-decreed domination by an admittedly hated family fail to create a backlash with compounded interest? AT THIS POINT LET US CONSIDER IN DETAIL THE LEFTIST TECHNIQUE OF USING NATIONAL DEFEAT as a climate -preparer for disarmament and the outlawing of national loyalty. In October, 1961, General Maxwell Taylor made a fact-finding trip to Saigon, accompanied by Walt Rostow . Defense Secretary McNamara told Congress on Mar . 15, 1962, "We will win the struggle for South Vietnam." LIFE Magazine of Jan. 25, 1963, quoted Maxwell Taylor, "South Vietnam is moving towards victory. " Richard Tregaskis, in the New York Journal American of Apr . 14, 1963, announced, "We're winning, not losing, in South Vietnam. " Dean Rusk .predicted victory on Apr . 8, 1963 . The New York Herald Tribune on Sept . 23 had General Harkins asserting "categorically", "We are winning the war in the Mekong Delta. " On Oct. 3, the New York Times reported, "McNamara sees end of U. S. role in Vietnam in 1965" . Thirty-four days later a Viet Cong dramatic troupe of forty actors was putting on nightly performances of an antiAmerican play less than two miles outside of Saigon! In America plans for disarmament and the closing of military bases proceeded full steam ahead, while assurances of victory just around the corner lulled the people .

The group that had imposed its will since Yalta and the formation of UN maneuvered America to the brink of defeat in Southeast Asia and then prepared to make patriotism and national armed forces the scapegoats . The argument : Only international forces, not national armies, can cope with such struggles and ensure peace in the future . America must be disarmed and her defense turned over to an international force . In other words, our disastrous war in South Vietnam is to be our last .

Under Jerome Wiesner, top Kennedy aide on Science, "the technical problems of arms control" and thought control were summarily resolved in the 110 Study, prepared for The Institute of International Order, at 11 West 42 Street, New York. Key specialists and citizens likely to resist replacement of America's national armies by a permanent inter national peace force within UN are to be marked for watching . Data on their private lives, clubs and opinions, and even college records, will be amassed. Loyalty to a supranational union will be assured by teaching international loyalty in schools and passing laws to force compliance with the disarmament program. Special groups most likely to know about clandestine activities will serve as watchdog units, and means of enforcing cooper ation will be perfected. Associated with Mr . Wiesner in the 110 Study was U. S. Information Agency founder, Arthur Larson, now carrying the program of data compilation on potential American resistors into its active phase with the formation of an office in Washington innocuously referred to as a committee for civic responsibility . In effect, the nowin period has ended, and the no-resistance phase begun.

James Reston wrote in the New York Times of June 18, 1964, that, more than anyone else in the administration, Bobby Kennedy "has been fascinated by the techniques of counter insurgency, has been involved in Vietnam and its problems for the last three years, and has the prestige and authority to pull together what is now a divided and rather confused team of State Department, Defense Department and Central Intelligence operators on the scene. " At the time of his brother's death Bobby was on the way to becoming America's Ngo dinh Nhu, obsessed by fear of a people pushed too far and, like Walt Rostow, studying the techniques of repression, in the name of "counter-insurgency" . That Americans are alarmed does not necessarily make them "lunatic -fringers" or fright peddlers, particularly when they learn that "psychological inspection techniques", including "depth interviews, polygraphs, drugs and hypnosis" with them as no-right-of-dissension victims, are being discussed.

Page 6 WHILE THE PUBLIC IS STILL CONFUSED over the defeat for which it paid billions of dollars on assurance that we were winning, talk of victory over communism will be phased out and the themes of "neutralism" and "peace" introduced. The change-over is already under way. In the New York Times of Nov. 22, 1964, Mr . Robert Shelton states that the State Department is sending Mr . Bill Crofut and Steve Addiss abroad, "on their second such government-backed junket . . . as a sort of two-man musical peace corps" . Vietnam, Laos, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Kenya will be their destinations . On a previous trip they sang for Burmese students in a communist school and were made honorary tribesmen in Kenya. On the subject of opposition to communism, "All we know is what we read in the New York Times", said Mr . Crofut . "We don't want to get involved in any power struggle . We are out to give Asians a different picture of Americans. " So American defense of liberty is now a "power struggle" ." When two elephants fight it is the grass that suffers", is the message of Messrs . Crofut and Addiss . It is the line adopted by the first congress of the Communist Vietnamese Front for National Liberation in February, 1962 . Denis Warner's column of Dec . 7, 1964, syndicated by Inter-Continental Features, is headed "Ho chi Minh called Key to Indochina Future" . The suggestion follows that Ho, if treated right, might become another Tito . Analyze it : What we are being told is that the fight for which we spent billions and X number of Americans died was ridiculous ; the danger never really existed. One-sided American surrender is being sugar-coated as preferable to fighting like senseless elephants and ruining grass. This is the new doctrine Voice of America's friends, Crofut and Addiss, are being sent into the villages of Asia to sell . A spate of articles is selling it in America . Americans rejecting it will be taken care of by Messrs . Wiesner and Larson. TO SUM IT UP : AMERICA HAS COMPLETED THE CYCLE IN SOUTHEAST ASIA . It took nineteen years, a costly Diem detour and elimination of any anti-communist leader with a party who might have succeeded him. The men who tried to give Indo-China to Ho chi Minh in 1945 are acheiving their goal nineteen years later . Also, they are collecting a bonus, the upheaval within America. No-resistance measures, neutralism, disarmament and replacement of national armies by UN forces have moved from planning stage to implementation . There is little likelihood of a congressional investigation to separate the dupes from the conscious connivers responsible for the debacle in Asia . It will be noticed that even to use of the term "Indo-China", lumping both Vietnams, Laos and Cambodia together, the Denis Warner story mentioned above reverts to our pro-Ho chi Minh period of 1945 . Cambodia was given another shove toward the brink in September, 1964 . CAMBODIA, IT WILL BE REMEMBERED, established relations with Peking in 1958, following a Vietnamese incursion which America refused to mediate. Ngo dinh Diem and America's policy in regard to him were responsible for Cambodia's move into the Peking camp. More than any other American in Saigon, Mr . Randolph Kidder (referred to throughout Vietnam as "Mme : Nhu's man in the American embassy") was considered responsible by Asiatics for that policy's continuation for so long . (When Mme . Nhu made her trip to America in November, 1963, Mr . Kidder took off "to inspect American embassies around the world" . The trip was facilitated by Diem-lobby-head Angier Biddle Duke's renting of Mr . Kidder's Washington home for as long as he had to be away .) As an ultimate insult, to give Cambodia her final push, Congress approved the appointment of Randolph Kidder as ambassador to Phom Penh in September, 1964 . Then they wondered why Cambodia refused to let him enter the country and relations took a turn for the worse . SO ENDS THE STORY OF OUR BIG EXPERIMENT IN SOUTH VIETNAM, which was never an experiment because to the group conducting it and the authorities they silenced the end was never in doubt. Senator Kennedy, in 1954, proclaimed, "Force them (the French) to grant Indo-China complete independence and they will form a crusade for freedom! " Note said crusade today. End of political science lesson on communization through decolonization and socialist police-statism through defeat . Business correspondence : H. du B . Reports, Box 855, Huntington, Indiana Foreign correspondence : Hilaire du Berrier, Hotel Lutetia, 43 Blvd . Raspail, Paris 6. Subscription price: $10 per year for 10 newsletters. Extra copies of this newsletter : 20~ each to regular subscribers; $1 to non-subscribers. Hilaire du Berrier, Correspondent

VOLUME VII, LETTER 9 FEBRUARY, 1965

FOREIGN AFFAIRS LETTER

H . du B. REPORTS

PARIS, FRANCE Though diplo-

By Asia's calendar 1965 is the year of the snake, a year of evil portent. matic doldrums marked its opening weeks, great changes are in store.

McGeorge Bundy, principal foreign policy advisor to the White House (his claim to preeminence was his loyalty to Russian spy Alger Hiss) winged his way to Southeast Asia-to tell President Johnson what to do about North Vietnam, where Russia's leaders were offering technicians and missiles at the same time . He is expected to advise a ground yielding, retreat into neo-isolation, lest firmness lead to conflict with Peking . Edmund Burke once averred that the concessions of the weak are concessions of fear . Mr . Bundy might be reminded that to Peking any concession is an admission of fear . No American move will lead to conflict with Peking unless Peking has decided on conflict and is seeking a pretext. PEKING, ACCORDING TO VIBRATIONS IN PARIS, which is the world sounding-board for intelligence reports, has been on a war-footing since early '64 . Military control has been extended to all sectors of transport, industry, economy and commerce . Military commissars work to turn China's 700 million blue ants into production warriors, drugged with the opiate of China's greatness and invincibility . Behind Peking's 2 . 6 million-man army of 158 combat divisions, supported by fanatical workmen, is ignorant national acceptance of the "greatest nation on earth" .myth. Under the circumstances, Mr . Bundy's anticipated counsel will be a tray-proffered invitation for Peking to embark on a military venture, based on bluff and a highly over-rated military machine . SO WHY THE PRESTORM CALM OF THE WEST? One answer is that two and possibly three elections are in the offing, in France, Germany and Britain. France is due to go to the polls in March . Gaston Deferre, the socialist mayor of Marseilles, received the blessing of the internationalists at a parliamentary conference of Prince Bernhard's Bilderberger group in Williamsburg, Virginia, last spring . (Bilderbergers are not elected ; no conservatives sit in their secret councils . Prince Bernhard and his inner committee select and dub as "world leaders" the international liberals with whom they will legislate .) Extreme Left Pierre Mendes-France may yet ease out Deferre to become the presidential candidate of France's Socialist-Communist Popular Front. Mon. Jean-Louis TixierVignancourt, the courageous lawyer who saved General Salan from the firing squad, is the candidate of the conservatives. But de_ Gaulle has the radio, TV, press, and above all the police . (On five minutes' notice, day or night, 5, 000 police brigades stand ready to move into the streets .) Unmentioned in the press blackout is the fact that some 38, 000 French communities will also choose new heads in the March elections . The communists are working hard, and a 51% victory would legally communize France . In Germany Chancellor Ludwig Erhard will fight the combined weight of international socialists, American-manipulated labor unions and native leftists campaigning for Willy Brandt . In Britain, if Labor's narrow majority makes Wilson's position untenable, the nation may again go to the polls. Italy, not facing national elections, is none-the-less unstable . Without the spectre of inflation and a sinking economy, one out of three Italians already votes communist. None of these coming problems alarmed Americans . Politicians who, prior to Nov. 3, gleefully frightened America's oldsters with TV films showing the aged losing their social security cards if Barry Goldwater were elected, piously deplored the exploitation of the country's old and sick . And President Johnson, spouting about a "free America", prepared to wipe right-to-work laws off the nation's books, a move which will enforce payment of tribute to Walter Reuther by any American who wants to work . Such was the situation as behind-the-scenes negotiations for a Bresnev-Kosygin visit to Washington continued and unconcealed Bresnev-Kosygin missile offers to Ho chi Minh unfolded .

THE THIRD FORCE, THAT VORACIOUS ANTI-WHITE, ANTI-WESTERN MASS which habitually votes as a bloc in the General Assembly of UN, look upon Europe, and beyond Europe America, as their oyster . (In 1964 they mulcted America and her fellow "haves" brink with one out of $8 . 15 billion.) De Gaulle, deftly balancing America's dollar on the

Page 2 . hand while holding a sword over NATO with the other, played the Third Force against the West, Moscow against Washington, satellites against Moscow, and Peking against the "economic imperialists" in Latin America and Africa, In Africa the Organization for African Unity, backed by both Washington and Moscow, worked to regiment a more efficacious bloc against the West, an exact negation of the principle of "divide and rule" by which unruly nations were once channeled away from a concerted threat against law and order . WHAT IS THIS EUROPE, AT STAKE IN A STRUGGLE WHICH THE WEST SEEMS NOT TRYING TO WIN? Think of it as a great table, 3 .8 million square miles in surface, 2, 500 miles from north to south, 3, 800 miles from east to west. Its heartland runs from northern France through southern Belgium to Russia's juncture with Asia, where Gregorian calendar meets the year of the snake. Mineral-rich mountains surround Europe's plains . Some 550 million people, not counting citizens of the Soviet Union, are as inexorably conditioned as ever was Pavlov's pig. Three main divisions and numerous smaller, overlapping ones separate Europe into geographical and social bodies which the combined international Left plays, one against another . An inner struggle for power exists within the international Left. The UN, on New York's East River, aspires to world leadership . So does communism, whose world capital is Moscow . So does Marxist socialism, the geographical capital of which is Brus sels . But in the struggle to destroy society as it was, the three are solidly together, perhaps because Moscow regards communist domination of the UN as already in the bag and the socialists think that a mellowing Moscow will eventually succumb to them.
'OUTER SEVEN' European Free Trade Area Population : 91,789,000

THE THREE PRINCIPAL ECONOMIC DIVISIONS OF THE EUROPEAN TABLE are the Common arket 6, the "Outer 7" and Moscow's communist bloc. The Common Market 6 package deal wraps up France, Germany, Holland, Luxembourg, Belgium and Italy. Think of it essentially as a regional one-world seed-group, held up to the public as an economic union until it "jelled", then turned by the Spaak socialist camp into a catalyzer around which further states would crystallize. Internal conflict exists where Spaak aims clash with de GaulleIs .

In the"Outer 7" are Britain, Portugal, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and Austria . The six continental nations are cards in Britain's hand, to play against the Common Market 6 . Socialist Sweden will, in a showdown, serve as Spaak's fifth column in the British camp. The Common Market countries are all NATO allies of Portugal, and Britain is allied with Portugal in both NATO and the Outer 7 ; nevertheless, all these countries, along with America and Russia, are knifing Portugal in Angola and Mozambique . Sitting on the eastern edge of the European table and watching the other two blocs alternately woo and knife each other is the Russian soviet empire . The Common Market and the Outer 7 have no networks of agents working within the Soviet Bloc, but soviet agents work assiduously at every level within the Common Market and Outer 7 . Marked for destruction by Moscow for having thwarted Stalin, and by both the Common Market and Outer 7 for having thwarted British laborites and Spaak socialists, is Spain . So put it this way : Western Europe gratuitously ostracizes and undermines the one European nation that has defeated Russia and whose fall would unleash a communist pincer-movement on themselves .

Page 3 . FOR FUTURE REFERENCE, A DEEPER LOOK AT THE COMMON MARKET 6. The Common Market was born with the signing of the Treaty of Rome, on March 25, 1957. Said treaty called for the wiping out of customs barriers, unification of tariffs as regards other countries, and conformity of economic, financial and social policies under a Common Market commission before the end of 1969. A roundabout way of saying "sacrifice of national sovereignty to a mixed Common Market Committee" . The seat of the Common Market is on the seventh floor of the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in Brussels . Its actual heads are Walter Halstein (Germany),President : Joseph Luns (Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs) and Paul Henri Spaak (Belgium's socialist Min ister of Foreign Affairs) . A minister from each country makes up the Common Market Council . Any minister can halt a project by exercising his right of veto, but the custom is that, under charges of "putting selfish national interests before the common good", vetos are ultimately withdrawn. Result is a constant nibbling away of national sovereignty around the conference table . A EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMISSION of nine members (2 Italian, 2 French, 2 German and one Belgian, Luxembourgeois and Dutch) serves as a sort of upper house for this "super-state seed-group" . The 142-member EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT which sits in Strasbourg, (appointed by national assemblies of member countries) serves as a sort of consultative lower house, theoretically able by a two-thirds vote to unseat the Common Market Commission in Brussels but only likely to do so if the Commission blocks the expansionist policies of Hallstein, Spaak and Luns . WHILE AN EFFECTIVE PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN held the six-nation "package" up to the West, and particularly to America, as a utopian economic union, soft-bedalled were the clauses nullifying existing immigration laws through creation of a constantly-floating labor force, at home in any country and loyal to no country. Eventual American adhesion would circumvent not only immigration laws but the Connaly Reservation, which prevents an international court from meddling in American affairs . Another aim of the seed-group is the international currency, long advocated by Cabot Lodge and now visualized for September, 1965, when nations of the Big-10 financial group which met in Tokyo last summer will convene in Washington . A communist break-through in France's March elections, a Willy Brandt .victory in Germany or a further surge to the Left in Italy would, in turn, show up in a deeper reddening of the Common Market Council . In brief: With the leftward swing of its members, the six-nation "packaged " super-state is inexorably sliding into the area penultimate to communism . Citizens who object are helpless. Washington, American labor and the American press support and approve the slide . As Western Europe's socialists drew closer to and on occasion merged with Eastern Europe's communists, NATO, the military union of America and Europe, approaches twilight . With NATO's weakening, economic and political groupings will be advanced as substitutes for an "out-moded military concept" . The new line will be "Peace through commercial and cultural exchanges and the wiping out of national boundaries ." WHAT IS THIS NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION (NATO) which the West erected as a bulwark against communism and then sabotaged as an obstacle to socialism? Briefly, a defensive military alliance, with Paris for a capital but Washington pulling the strings. The North Atlantic Treaty, by which NATO came into being, was signed in Wash ington on April 4, 1949 . Its stated raison d'etre : A Western alliance against the communist threat. (On May 14, 1955, Moscow created the Warsaw Pact group, comprised of eight communist nations, to confront NATO . Thus the two military groupings on the European table came into being . " Twelve nations were original NATO signatories : Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Holland, Portugal, and the U. S. Greece and Turkey joined them in 1951 and West Germany in 1954 . Military forces

Page 4. were to be furnished by the NATO 15, and America's nuclear bombers were at the disposition of NATO, but only Washington could order their use . Britain acquired A-bomb status because America shared nuclear secrets with her . This led Britain to propose a British-American partnership, an Anglo-Saxon monopoly that would freeze out the French. Slowly, painfully, France worked her way toward the "atomic club", spending millions of dollars in research to acquire knowledge that Britain had been given for nothing . In 1958 de Gaulle asked Washington to enlarge the atomic partnership to 3 . There was no reply, and the crack in the Western alliance widened . Already, within the French armed forces, revolt against American leadership was spreading, triggered by Dulles' lineup with Russia in support of Nasser at the time of Suez and America's underwriting of a communist-backed terrorist movement in Algeria . In Paris, in December of 1960, before Kennedy's inauguration, a new team, dedicated to anti-communism in principle but not in fact, proposed a multilateral force of submarines bearing nuclear missiles. America would still hold the key . Germany accepted the proposition, as her only means of approaching nuclear power, from which the allies had barred her . Two years later, in Nassau on December 22, Kennedy took "Sky Bolt", the missile for which Britain had spent billions in development and for construction of carrier planes, away from Macmillan and offered instead to sell him Polaris missiles ; if Britain were threatened the missiles would be hers to use . The same offer was made to de Gaulle, who refused . Then in February, 1963, came the MLF proposal in its present form: 25 surface craft carrying 8 Polaris missiles each, manned by an international NATO crew, with America alone having the right to say whether or not the missiles would be fired. Europe deemed the idea frivolous . Aside from the vulnerability of surface craft tracked day and night by Russian subs, what would happen at sea if overnight the country supplying part of the crew were to go communist? Europeans further resented the inference that they, who knew more about war's horrors than America, would be more likely to unleash a nuclear holocaust. In sum, putting Americans in the same doomed surface vessels .with European boys looked like a play to convince America's allies that she meant business, while American insistence on monopoly of the trigger raised doubts . No one believed that a Washington imbued with Wayne Morse and Bill Fulbright mentality would push a button to save Paris, Berlin or Rome. NATO WITHERED AS ANYTHING MORE MEANINGFUL THAN A COSTLY INFORMATION-AMASSING CENTER . Military, economic and political reports were collected, annotated and studied, and the receptacle leaked like a sieve . Monthly the West's slide toward international socialism closed the gap between NATO and the powers against which its members had joined hands in 1949.

PAUL HENRI SPAAK, THE BELGIAN SOCIALIST, was civilian head of NATO until 1961 . Beguiled patriots slept peacefully, thinking he was guarding the ramparts . Then, as head of NATO, came Dutch Dirk Stikker, the friend of Joseph Luns, Spaak's associate in Common Market super-statism . Spaak returned to Brussels as Foreign Minister and extender of regional one-worldism within the Common Market framework. In 1963 he flew to Russia to prepare the ground (to Khrushchev's delight) for a partial nuclear test ban treaty which strait-jacketed America without inconveniencing Russia . Stikker left NATO in late 1964 to take a job with Dutch Shell Oil . NATO was then passed to Italian Manlio Brosio, in whose country one man in three votes Red . Where Mr . Brosio would go with his vast fund of information if tomorrow`Italy went communist is anybody's guess . Luigi Longe, present head of the Italian Communist Party, when arrested in France in 1940 produced a valid Russian passport and requested repatriation to "his country" . When, if ever, he took back. Italian nationality is unknown.

Page 5. BEFORE THE END OF 1965 DE GAULLE IS EXPECTED TO HOLD A REFERENDUM ON FRENCH WITHDRAWAL FROM NATO . TIME Magazine, mirroring Washington, will be righteously indignant . The citizen would do well to go back and try to pinpoint where the decay started and how . The year NATO was founded Washington delivered an ultimatum to NATO-ally Holland to surrender to Sukarno in Indonesia . By November, 1954, America had backed and encouraged revolts against NATO ally France in Indo-China, Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria.. By the end of 1960 America had sided with Congolese assassins against Belgian allies who were personally neither socialist nor communist, and with communist-inspired terrorists against NATO-ally Portugal in Angola and Mozambique . She was encouraging strikes and subversion in Spain -not a member of NATO but a provider of NATO bases. And by 1964 NATO-member Greece was calling on Warsaw Pact leader Russia for assistance against NATO-member Turkey . ANOTHER COMMON GROUND OF COMMUNIST, SOCIALIST AND REGIONAL ONEWORLDISM ACTION is the United Nations Special Committee on Colonialism, set up to push European powers out of Africa and Asia. 24 members make up this commit This leaves the U. S. and the tee . Four are communist, twelve are Afro-Asian. West with eight votes, and they partisans in the senseless crusade against colonialism . The committee's eight-member steering group comprises Bulgaria, Cambodia, India, Iraq, Mali, Sierra Leone and Uruguay. One of the U. S. Private organizations most active in assisting revolutionaries engaged in clearing colonies of the restraining force provided by Europeans has been the International Rescue Committee, which led American private organizations in In 1951, while Britain was fightaiding terrorists rebels active against our allies . tribesman of Jomo Kenyatta, the in Kenya, IRC brought a fellow Mau Mau ing the trained him to be a doctor . Similar aid was granted leader, to America, and Mau Mau Algerians engaged in massacring the French, a small Angolan minority incited against Salazar, and communist Spanish exiles engaged in subversive action against the Franco government. In 1961 Angier Biddle Duke, head of IRC, became President Kennedy's Chief of Protocol and proceeded to send the nephew of the Spanish Civil War finance minister who shipped Spain's gold reserve to Russia out to Texas, with a letter of introduction to a firm angling for government contracts . In late 1964, as America's disastrous Vietnam bungle came to a head, "Angie" Duke, deeply involved in the debacle, as head of the lobby that for years kept America hoodwinked while something could have been done, resigned as Chief of Protocol . Washington rumor has it that Duke will be named ambassador to Spain . If true, Spanish subversion will have an HQ in Madrid . OTHER DIPLOMATIC SHIFTS ARE IN THE CARDS FOR 1965 . Sir Paul Gore-Booth, presentlyHigh Commissioner to India, is likely to be Britain's next ambassador to Washington . Sir Paul was long an exponent of close relationship with Peking, a thesis Peking's growing threat to India makes less and less popular in his present post, but which all the trends of the Johnson administration make timely in America .

Supporting Sir Paul as Britain's delegate to UN, according to reports out of London, will be Lord Caradon, formerly Sir Hugh Foote, brother of the extreme Leftist Member of Parliament, Michael Foote, who has long been one of the ringleaders in the British group dedicated to levelling existing society by inciting colonial minorities . So much for the great bound ahead of the one-worlders as 1965 gets under way . AN APPARENTLY INSIGNIFICANT INNOVATION APPEARED IN AMERICA . European . exponents of the super-state were elated at America's non-resistance to the ZIP code the crept into for expediting mail have a handy device Hints of something greater than . press, but a nation occupied with other matters permitted them to pass un-noticed

Page 6. The official explanation is that some time -- three or fours years from now -- the post office will have electronic machines capable of reading ZIP codes and speeding mail on its way . The NEW YORK TIMES of January 15, 1965, reported from Paris: "On the first day of the New Year, France joined Germany and Switzerland in the International ZIP Code, and Europe took another step toward unity. . . . Month by month, statesmen plot great policies and postmen devise joint ZIP codes that bring the nations closer together . And the closer they come, the greater the need for closeness . One step leads to another ."

In the same paper, "ZIP codes, farm policy, tariffs, economic planning, and more" are praised as media through which economic unity will be spread through the 21nation ORGANIZATION FOR ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT which cuts across Common Market and Outer 7 lines. (A characteristic of all the socialist-inclined groupings is that non-membership in a given group is unimportant membership in an overlapping group will guarantee continuity of the chain .) What we arrive at is frank European recognition of the ZIP code as a psychological arm to make the citizen dissociate himself in his mind from a city, a region or a country and supplant sentimental names with a number . There is also a suggestion that the number may eventually be extended to cover houses on a street and individuals in the house, the latter under orders to report trips, vacations or changes of address to the post office, where whirring IBM machines will permit an efficient officialdom to put its finger on any citizen in a matter of minutes . These are a few of the items on the world's trouble-potential list as we start the year of the snake .

LABOR'S INTERNATIONAL NETWORK, by Hilaire du Berrier, is important reading for anyone who wants to know the true picture of world affairs . It may be ordered direct from this office . . . . . . 30 pages, 50~ .

Address all domestic business correspondence to H . du B . Reports, Box 855, Huntington, Indiana . Address all foreign business correspondence to Hilaire du Berrier, Hotel Lutetia, 43 Blvd. Raspail, Paris VI, France.

Subscription price : $10 per year . regular subscribers .

Extra copies of this newsletter :

20~ each to

Hilaire du Berrier, Correspondent

PARIS, FRANCE On Friday, February 19, 1965, Saigon experienced its eighth coup d'etat attempt since November 1, 1963 . But this was no simple power play . The man who directed it and held Saigon for a day was Colonel Albert Pham ngoc Thao, whose record was given in H du B . Reports . of October, 1964 . In January, 1965, we drew attention to the September 21, 1964, Saigon report of Warren Rogers, head of Hearst Headline Service Is Washington Bureau . Reaching far out in a brazen insult to common sense, Mr . Rogers made a fine fellow of Pham ngoc Thao, the Ho chi Minh intelligence chief under whose interrogation technique death was preferable to capture for the prisoners who fell into his hands . Then, going beyond the Thao whitewash, Mr . Rogers proceeded to make a rat out of the anti-communist prisoner whom Thao had broken, one Brigadier General Duong van Duc.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS LETTER

VOLUME VII, LETTER 10 MARCH, 1965

H. du B. REPORTS

OBVIOUSLY A MOVE WAS AFOOT TO BUILD UP PHAM NGOC THAO and discredit his enemies . But for what? The Thao story is one of the outstanding examples of our team's tendency to advance dangerous men and destroy our friends, The light it throws on Pham ngoc Thao's cunning and our duplicity explains to a large degree why we are losing in Vietnam . BEFORE THE GENEVA ACCORD OF 1954 WHICH DIVIDED VIETNAM, Pham ngoc Thao headed Ho chi Minh's intelligence . In 1949 he married a militant communist who was the sister of communist professor Pham Thieu . When Vietnam was divided, Thao professed to have renounced communism . He wormed his way into the good graces of President Diem's brother, Ngo dinh Nhu. As Nhu's lieutenant he became head of the credit office of the American Aid Section of the Bank of South Vietnam, Nhu's intelligence chief and boss of Nhu's 70, 000 secret police . This is to say, he employed the same methods for Nhu (often against his former followers who attempted to desert Ho chi Minh) that he once practiced for the communists, and with access to our aid as he did so . Thao's brother Gaston was a Ho chi Minh official, and his father, Pham ngoc Tuan, was head of the Vietminh League in Paris, so it was through Thao and his wife that Nhu maintained contact with Hanoi. Nevertheless, Albert Pham ngoc Thao became the darling of the American press. I IN THE EVENT THAT SOME SENATE INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE SHOULD BE INTERESTED, Joe Alsop's 1961 columns in the Herald Tribune of April 11, 12, 14 and 18 were devoted to the glorification of Albert Pham ngoc Thao . TIME Magazine of April 21, 1961, with typical Luce blindness to the dangers of using American aid as a weapon in the internal politics of a foreign country, proudly boasted of our complicity . TIME quoted Thao, "We tried a little propaganda of our own. We told the people that if they did not vote (for Diem, understood), they would have trouble getting jobs or help from the government. " The New York Herald Tribune on June 8, 1961, ran a story by Dennis Bloodworth of Britain's liberal OBSERVER in praise of Thao's methods : "To the astonishment and sometimes fury of his superiors, he (Thao) also set free some of the Viet Cong his men had captured, allowing them to walk out of prison camps -- with their weapons . 'We don't want to give the impression we are afraid of them', he said ." -- As though the Viet Cong were not capturing American weapons fast enough! A more likely explanation is that the released prisoners were personal friends for whom Thao had plans in the future . LOGICALLY, PHAM NGOC THAO WAS THE FIRST MAN WHO SHOULD HAVE BEEN ARRESTED when the November 1, 1963, coup d'etat toppled Diem and Nhu, since he was responsible for much of the country's hatred of the Ngo dinhs. Always Thao was the link between Nhu's 70, 000 spies and the family at the top. Instead of passing the warnings upward, as November 1 approached, Thao realized the game was up and changed sides. The night of October 31, 1963, Thao spent at a radio microphone, saving his own neck by attacking his former master . At 4 A. M. on November 1, Nhu played his last card . Trapped in the fortified bunker beneath Gia Long Palace, he launched an appeal for his personal party, his Youth Movement forces and the paramilitary organization set up by his wife to go into the streets and save him. There was no reply. The explanation is simple : Thao was Nhu's commander of said forces . The 70, 000 secret police were intact, underground and unidentifiable . Thao was not going to expose them by sending them into the streets in a lost cause; such a Gestapo might come in handy in the future .

Page 2 . IN SEPTEMBER, 1964, BRIGADIER GENERAL DUONG VAN DUC, whom Thao had broken for the communist when Duc was Thao's prisoner, marched on Saigon and held it for a day. Duc demanded that Colonel Pham ngoc Thao be thrown out of his job as General Khanh's press chief. With some aid from the Americans, Khanh put down the one-day revolt ; Duc was sentenced to life imprisonment and Thao remained in his ideal spot for soft-soaping American newsmen. Thus, on September 21, America was given the Warren Rogers story lauding Thao and putting a knife in Nguyen ton Hoan, the anti-communist leader whom General Khanh and the American team had just driven into exile. (For the Allen & Scott hatchet job on Hoan of November 9, 1963, see H. du B . Reports for September, 1964) . NEXT SCENE: ON OCTOBER 1, 1964, ALBERT PRAM NGOC THAO WAS NAMED PRESS ATTACHE to the Vietnam embassy in Washington . Appointed with him, as ambassador, was Brigadier General Tran thien Khiem, the godson of Ngo dinh Diem . (On November 11, 1960, when paratroopers staged their first revolt against the Diem-Nhu regime, it was Khiem who brought up his tanks, swore to his comrades that he was with them, and then, when infantry support arrived, slowly turned his gun turrets on his friends and over the bodies of his fellow officers became a Brigadier General.) Such was the honorable team being sent to Washington .

Thao's wife, Madame Pham thi Nhiem, arrived in Washington with her five children on December 6, 1964 . Just what went on between the new team in the Vietnamese embassy and State Department and CIA officials responsible for the policies currently costing America both lives and solvency in South Vietnam is still not clear . That something was afoot and that Americans were in on it is evident beyond a doubt. That it was never in America's interest to back either Pham ngoc Thao or Ambassador Tran thien Khiem should be evident from the record . This leaves only one question: What Americans were responsible? THAO SLIPPED OUT OF WASHINGTON ON DECEMBER 26, 1964 . Secretly and with the connivance of highly-placed persons, he arrived unnoticed and went directly into hiding in Saigon, where Nhu's old 70, 000-man secret police awaited him, intact and unexposed. On Friday, February 19, 1965, Thao erupted to the surface and made a desperate play for power . Pauline Barrett, special correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune, gushed on February 21, "Friday she (Madame Thao) exuded confidence when the coup he had been preparing -- unknown to her -- seemed successful . Yesterday she was only somewhat disappointed . 'I am confident he is not in personal danger', Mrs. Thao said ." Unknown to her -- indeed! And well might she be confident that her husband was being protected. TIME MAGAZINE OF FEBRUARY 26, 1965, GLASSED OVER THE REVOLT, STATING ONLY THAT THAO WAS "A CATHOLIC WITH A CHECKERED POLITICAL CAREER". That "the coup was headed by a Roman Catholic officer" was the only detail given on Everywhere the protective mantle of Thao by the conservative Fort Lauderdale News . an alleged church affiliation was thrown over the multiple turncoat whom America and the Vietnamese should have arrested . Only firm assurances that Thao had American supporters behind him can account for Ambassador Khiem's reckless declaration of solidarity, without waiting to see how things were going. The next question: Will Khiem remain in the Washington embassy? As of this writing Thao is still in hiding in South Vietnam, biding his time, protected from arrest by the vast Nhu "underground" which he now heads. That the communist "underground", the eyes and ears of which are everywhere, has not exposed him is significant .

On February 11 out of London an AP story by Arthur Gavshon told America that the They were -- by "Soviets (are) Reportedly Working Quietly to Ease Viet Crisis" . to America to pull out. Hanoi and delivering an ultimatum shipping arms to

MOST IMPORTANT WAS UN SECRETARY GENERAL U THANT'S ENTRY INTO THE AFFAIR . Internationalization of the conflict -- a UN-sponsored conference, possibly in Geneva, with Peking participating -- was his proposal: Conference table surrender, in sum. Coming at this time, Mr . U Thant's proposal, for a number of reasons, makes a review of our relation with UN and the anti-Western bloc in order .

Sukarno, for whom Washington betrayed Holland in 1949, delivered scores of Dutchmen to die in Indonesian prisons and sabotaged Holland's defense of New Guinea in 1962, has just taken Indonesia out of UN, with a final insult to America. In America economic doctors sitting at the bedside of a sick dollar prescribe curtailment of American investments abroad, a cut-down on foreign purchases and any number of other experiments, but no cure of the ailment at its source ; The throwing away of America's treasure on the world's Sukarnos and Nassers . The specious theory that nine-tenths of such aid would come back in foreign orders should never have been accepted, for exports purchased by American aid were never bought by foreigners ; they were forced purchases by American taxpayers of goods they never received . THE ANSWERS TO "HOW DID WE BECOME INVOLVED IN SOUTH VIETNAM?" AND "WHERE DID OUR GOLD RESERVES GO V' start with the Bohlen Minutes of the CairoTeheran Conferences in 1943 . At Teheran Roosevelt's determination to destroy colonialism and create a "One World" of Soviet-type nations ruled by an international body, even though that body be dominated by Soviet Russia, became apparent . Mr . Bohlen, now U . S. ambassador to France, officially reported that Roosevelt was "100% in agreement with Marshal Stalin" that "France should not get back Indo-China", at that time oc cupied by Japanese forces . (Bohlen Minutes of the Roosevelt-Stalin Meeting of December 1, 1943) "After 100 years of French rule in Indo-China, the inhabitants are worse off than they were before", Mr . Bohlen quoted Roosevelt as saying, on Page 485 of his Minutes . (Twenty years after Roosevelt's secret deal with Stalin for their future, the Vietnamese looked back on French rule as "the good old days" .) By June 30, 1964, America had poured an admitted $136 billion into foreign aid since July, 1945 . Still receiving such aid were 90 countries . The Afro-Asiatic bloc accounting for much of the drain on the American treasury and aligned against the U. S. on all major issues in UN now numbers 59 nations.

BANDOENG, INDONESIA, ON APRIL 19, 1955 , was the scene of the first organizedanti-Western hate session of the nations brought into being by Roosevelt's secret agreement with Stalin, eleven and a half years before . Chou En-lai was the star of the meet ing, followed in importance by Nasser and the pandit Nehru. America, still basking in the balmy atmosphere of the anti-colonialist crusade, had not yet taken stock of the wave that Roosevelt's and Stalin's joint mass communications media had set in motion. The do-goodism road was flower-lined ; it led to no-winism . Sukarno, the Japanese collaborator who had persecuted the Dutch and whom America's rabid anti-colonialists found preferable to our allies after V-J Day, was the hate-bloc's host . Prosecuting attorney would be a better word, for the white man was in the defen dant's box. The Bandoeng Conference was one long blind attack against the West . Sukarno described the plaintiffs as "the silent people of the world" . From Nu of Burma to India's Krishna Menon, from China's Chou En-lai to Egypt's Nasser, they were anything but silent . "Colonialism is not dead", shouted Sukarno. "Gripping vast territories in its last strongholds, it is attempting to rise again under perfidious forms in the countries from which it has been driven! " Strangely enough, the American people could still be induced to devour oceans of newsprint favorable to this man, whose mountains at that moment were full of Indonesians who hated him. Three thousand rebels had been killed in the immediate district within a year . All western Java considered Sukarno an oppressor . The whole archipelago, formed into an artificial nation by the Dutch and claimed by Sukarno thereafter, wanted only to get out from under him, but instead of liberating our friends from the local colonialist, the anti-colonialists in Washington added Dutch New Guinea to his victims. Karil Nikijuluw, descendant of the old sultans of the Moluccas, tried to plead the cause of Eventually he died of a broken heart. his people in New York, in the shadow of UN . archipelago that had been peaceful and prosperous beof Sukarno the Under the rule came a police-state ruin where, as an Englishman put it, "everything worked like a post office pen" . All of the "loyal"troops at Sukarno's disposal had to be drawn around Bandoeng at the time of the conference, lest the armed bands of Sukarno's Dar -ul=islam opposition try to have their say. Only Jamali, of Iraq, dared mention "the colonialism more murderous than any in the past, that which holds Turkistan, the Baltic states and the satellite nations of

Page 4. Europe in servitude" . An embarrassed silence followed . All eyes turned to Chou En-lai, sitting smiling, his hands crossed, next to Ceylon in Independence Hall . Chou's turn came the next day, on Tuesday, April 20 . His speech lasted fifteen min utes and was read by an interpreter -- in English. Chou proceeded slowly . Formosa was not mentioned, neither was admission to UN . Even America he treated gently, save for a reminder that the first atomic bomb fell on Asia and its victims were Asiatic. THOUGH THE COMMON ENEMY WAS THE WEST , there were cross currents at this first meeting. Nehru and Krishna Menon argued violently with Pakistan's Ali Khan. Turkey served as a buffer state between North and South Vietnam . The fishers in troubled waters were not all Afro-Asiatics. Makarios was there to ask the black, yellow and brown nations to help him liberate Cyprus from the British. The Algerians promised future cooperation -- against Israel, the Union of South Africa, anyone -- if "the silent peoples of the world", voracious, insatiable and clamoring, would help them drive out the French . The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem arrived with an Arab delegation and tried to represent Palestine. All the shadows of world problems to come were there, had the busy young American agents, conspicuous in seersucker suits, cared to read them . While other delegates alternately conspired and harangued against the West, the Japanese talked business, with Chou En-lai, with Sukarno, with Nasser -- with anyone who was interested . All Japan wanted was trade. In the closed door sessions only Turkey, Ceylon, Pakistan, Thailand, South Vietnam and the Philippines made any pretense of standing up to Chou . The most unpopular leader present was Nehru, the arrogant, sometimes irritable sometimes condescending demagogue who, whatever his mood, stood out as the symbol of supporting force behind the parasites of the poor, the Indian money-lenders of Africa and Asia . Even though the 29-nation Bandoeng Conference was both tedious and a bedlam, future Bandoengs will be worse . Nehru, who had little patience with exigencies other than his own, proposed that printed copies of the 29 delegates' speeches be handed out, to save time, rather than permitting each speaker to deliver his diatribe from the floor, often through interpreters . The proposal was rejected, for the true importance of Bandoeng was the opportunity it afforded the unimportant to be heard, and on that right each anti-western ranter insisted . FORMOSA WAS SUMMARILY DISPOSED OF BY SIR, JOHN KOTELAWALA, Prime Minister of Ceylon. Quemoy and Matsu Islands should be given immediately to Peking . Chiang Kai-shek would be sent packing, thus eliminating American influence. An international trusteeship, under the Colombo group (India, Pakistan, Burma, Ceylon, Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines) would rule Formosa for five years, after which the Formosans would decide by plebiscite whether they wanted to belong to Pe king or remain independent. In the wings Nehru lobbied for acceptance of Sir John's plan . While the Colombo group delegates sharpened their knives at a dinner given that night by Nehru, Dar -ul-Islam guerillas raided Tanara, 25 miles from Bandoeng, kidnapped Sukarno's officials and disappeared into the mountains with their loot . Details of the behind-the-scene-bargaining by which America's friends (Turkey, Pakistan, Thailand and South Vietnam) thwarted the Formosa deal are unknown, but the broad outlines are sufficient . Word went through the assembly, "If you will say nothing more about Formosa, America will get behind you in the drive to 'liberate' Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria." And an important aspect to remember is that such horsetrading as went on between America's spokesmen and those bargaining for the insatiable Afro-Asiatics at Bandoeng can never be repeated . Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria are in the enemy camp today, and America's trump cards are gone . In the decade since Bandoeng western strength has been squandered . Following the agreement to order the French out of North Africa, Nasser invited Chou En-lai to dinner, while Kotelawala stormed at having his Formosa plan side-tracked. He protested the use of North Africa as a diversionary move and demanded that Soviet colonialism also be condemned. Nehru bounded to his feet in defense of Russia and asked, "Under what title would you introduce such a debate?" Sir John replied, "You find the title ; you speak English better thanI do . 11

THE NEXT DAY, FRIDAY, APRIL 23, WAS CHOU'S DAY . As co-existence was being debated on another floor, Chou argued, "Why disturb a friendly meeting with ideological questions? Besides, the conference is for Afro-Asiatics . Why meddle with what Russia is doing in Rumania and Poland?" (Peking's aggrerssionin Tibet was politely overlooked . Nehru accused Sir John of trying to sabotage the conference ; then, turning from Sir John, he charged Pakistan's Mohammed Ali with having sold out to America, with trying to justify his American pact . In a moment the two colonialisms -- Russian and even French -- were forgotten and America was on the carpet . To the end India was Russia's battery for the defense. When it was over, Chou invited the gentlemen of the press, Americans included, to a cocktail party. Throughout Saturday Nehru battled, successfully, to prevent discussion of Russia's domination over her neighbors from reaching the floor . As a diversionary measure, he sought to bring South Vietnam's delegate together with Trangvan Dong, the repre sentative from the North. Chou, leaving Nehru the stage, slipped off for a luncheon which Indonesia's president was giving for the Colombo Pact nations. America's friends, Thailand and the Philippines, were there . Then back to the conference hall and Chou's most astute play . Never have such words been spoken in Peking . For the benefit of the Afro-Asiatics, and using Bandoeng as his forum, Chou called upon Amer ica to sit down and talk things over with Peking . Such a discussion, he was careful to add, the following day, "would not deprive the Chinese people of their sovereign right to liberate Formosa" . The great Bandoeng Conference ended on Sunday, April 25, 1955 . That, when it was over, America's gold-wasting liberals still retained any illusions about "the nations of rising expectations" was a triumph of fatuousness over common sense. AN OVERLAPPING ORGANIZATION WAS NECESSARY, if the Bandoeng group was to extend its influence beyond the confines of Africa and Asia . Obviously the anti-western, anti-American countries of Eastern Europe and Latin America could not come under the heading of African or Asiatic. Accordingly another clamoring community was artificially put together . The binding agent used was the pretense that a coalition of neutrals was being formed, for the purpose of exercising a restraining influence on America and Russia . But since neutralist they never, were, being pro-Russian and anti-western in their sentiments, the term "non-aligned" was adopted. Their first great conclave opened in Belgrade on September 1, 1961, sponsored by Tito and Nasser . 25 nations sent delegates and three others sent observers. Bourguiba, of Tunisia, had bought his way into the good graces of the "non-aligned" by attacking the French naval base of Bizerte, thereby proving that any western base on Tunisian soil was not there with his approval . In return Nasser gave the nod to the assassination of Bourguiba's chief rival, Salah ben Youssef, by Bourguiba gunmen in a hotel room in Zurich on March 2, 1961 . (H . du B . Reports, Sept . 1961) While the "Third Force", as they called themselves, talked peace and non-alignment in Belgrade, Dag Hammarskjold jumped to use the mandate the "peace-talkers" gave him for the destruction of the one man who wanted peace -- Moise Tshombe. THE NEXT SUMMIT CONFERENCE OF THE NON-ALIGNED WAS HELD THREE YEARS LATER IN CAIRO, on June 12, 1964 . This time there were 48 nations present and 11 observers. 18 of the countries represented were newly independent African states, including the Congo, though its representative, Tshombe, was being held by Nasser under house arrest, and prevented from taking his seat . (He was not anti-White .) Peace, denunciation of colonialism and the end of "racialism" were the keynotes of the conference . Nasser, hoping to lead Africa in his coming "holy war" against Israel, stressed the need for African unity. In fact, 20 of the 48 participants used the "peace" confab of the so-called non-aligned to form alignments for wars of their The Arab League members against Palestine, Indonesia against Malaysia, own : India against China, most of Black Africa against Tshombe's Congo, anal the Cypriot Greeks against Turkey . It goes without saying that America was pilloried by all. After talking war for three days, the participants drew up five conditions for membership in the neutralist club, which was scheduled to meet again in Bled, Yugoslavia, on September 1 and in Cairo in early October. To qualify, one had to profess to follow a policy of independence and co-existence ; support all national movements of liberation ; adhere to no multilateral military pact (NATO SEATO, Warsaw treaty, etc .) ; sign no

Page 5 .

Page

The 75 delegates present agreed on a common ground that would permit solidarity between Afro-Asia and Latin America. Geographically as well as politically the threat was nearing home . Peking and North Korea played a dominant role, and for the first time Algeria -- Europe's Cuba -- took her place as a torch-bearer against America. (TIME Magazine's all-out propaganda for the Algerians during their terrorist war should now, along with TIME correspondent Edward Behr's book on their aims and movement, be required reading for an awakening America.) Sukarno's man, if not Sukarno himself, would be Secretary General of the coming meeting which Russia, it was finally agreed, could attend as an Asiatic member . AT THIS POINT A WORD IS IN ORDER ON SUKARNO'S AIMS . Since Sukarno was raised to his present stature by America, to us must accrue responsibility for the threat he poses . Over $700 million in American aid was admittedly poured out to him between 1951 and late 1964 . The actual sum was probably much greater . While $1 . 2 million was thrown down the drain by U. S. Information Service in Jakarta, SukarnoI s invectives against America became more pronounced, and Indonesia's slide toward communism undeniable . By the end of 1964 none of the nations that defended America at Bandoeng could be depended upon to do so again. So successfully has Sukarno wooed the Philippines away from us that American installations in the Philippines are ruled out as possible bases for the defense of Malaysia . Turkey cooled off when Kennedy closed the missile sites on which she counted for protection, following the fake showdown in Cuba which left Khrushchev's missiles in place. Refusal to stand by the Turks in Cyprus further strained Turkish-American ties . Pakistan was alienated by America's massive military aid to India, used for the most part to thwart Pakistan's just claims to Kashmir. When Malaysia is over-run, the Philippines will be next in line for Sukarno conquest . Chances are non-existent that many nations in UN will court disfavor by voting with the West against the bloc Sukarno regimented in April, 1955, and for ten years "organized" withour money. More likely is the possibility that the Bandoeng group will seek member ship in a new international body, headed by Peking and seconded by Sukarno. OTHER EXAMPLES OF THE GENERAL CRUMBLING STARTED BY FDR AND STALIN IN TEHERAN ABOUND . In the summer of 1964 the International Postal Union met in Berne, Switzerland, theoretically, to discuss technical ways of improving the world's mail communications . A UN political convention was what it became . Bandoeng demagogues, the Organization for African Unity, the non-aligned, and all the other interlocking organizations through which UN encroaches on national sovereignties closed ranks to exclude Portugal and the Union of South Africa from the meeting. According to the present majority in UN, any nation which incurs the displeasure of the liabilities which the rest of the world supports does not deserve to receive mail at all. In this report the subscriber has the background to which events of the next few months can be traced. Out of the "1001o agreement" between FDR and Stalin at Teheran on Dec . 1, 1943, and the compliance of the American press came the nations of Bandoeng and the power they attained . To enlarge their alignments for wars of their own - in Israel, Angola., Mozambique and South Africa - and increase the UN majority that would make opposition to their aggressions a "threat to peace", the hoax of the non-aligned was born. Only a naive and uninformed public could expect India to vote against communist Poland and in support of America, on the International Control Commission, in Vietnam, thereafter . America, dealing for the West, in effect, stacked the cards against herself. Business correspondence : H. du B . Reports, Box 855, Huntington, Indiana. Foreign correspondence : Hilaire du Berrier, Hotel Lutetia, 43 Blvd . Raspail, Paris 6 . Subscription price: $10 per year for 10 newsletters . Extra copies of this newsletter : 20~ each to regular subscribers . $1 to non-subscribers .

THE AMERICAN PUBLIC, PREOCCUPIED WITH A NATIONAL ELECTION, PAID LITTLE ATTENTION TO THE RAPID SUCCESSION OF MEETINGS IN 1964, each of which in one way or another, and usually with American encouragement as well as financing, was a gang-up against the West . On June 17 motivators of the 1955 Bandoeng Conference met in Geneva. for a two-day session, to set up the second summit meeting of the Bandoeng group, this time in Africa . The date tentatively set was March 10, 1965 . The place : Algiers .

bilateral treaty of defense with a great power ; or permit the establishment of foreign military bases.

6.

VOLUME VIII, LETTER 1 APRIL, 1965

FOREIGN AFFAIRS LETTER

H. du B. REPORTS

PARIS. FRANCE

WASHINGTON --Not one of the 51 nations created since World War II has chosen communism as a way of life, the State Department finds . The Miami Herald, March 11, 1965 Typical of the fare the American government gives its people and the American press its readers, the above story gave neither date nor source . Whether Carl T . Rowan's United States Information Agency had circulated it, as soothing syrup to a nervous public, or some United Nations enthusiast on the paper had inserted it on his own, the reader had no way of knowing . Perhaps other papers across America had received and were reprinting the same lulling poison . Not a voice of protest was heard from a nation crying to be duped. ONE OF THE NEW NATIONS BELYING THE STATE DEPARTMENT FINDING and the one in which America, more than Russia, is responsible for a communist government today, is North Vietnam, fomenter of the struggle in which Americans are dying . In the six years between 1944 and 1950 America assiduously armed, supported and incited the forces of the communist revolutionary, Ho chi Minh. North Vietnam's existence as a communist nation was made possible by America . Despite the much-publicized airraids and weighty pronouncements that the tide is turning, everything points to a negotiated American withdrawal from that area at the first favorable opportunity, a withdrawal made palatable to the American public by a false feeling of satisfaction that we will be withdrawing as victors . SUPPOSE WE DEVOTE THIS REPORT OF APRIL, 1965, TO WHAT IS CALLED INCIDENTAL INTELLIGENCE . In February we covered the subdivisions which regiment Europe economically and politically . In March, for future reference, we traced the development of the anti-Western popular front uniting Asia and Africa, and extension of that front into Europe through the "non-aligned" door in Belgrade . It was heavy reading, but necessary if America is to have an informed public . This month let us turn to the fragments of information, each too small in itself to warrant a special report but which, taken together, are worthy of serious study . OBVIOUSLY THE FIVE LINES IN THE MIAMI HERALD WERE A BLATANT LIE . To accept them is to proclaim that not only North Vietnam but Mali, Tanzania (formerly Tanganyika and Zanzibar), Sukarno's Indonesia and communist Algeria are allies of the West . All of the 29 labor unions set up in Africa at American expense by American labor "ambassador" Irving Brown, for the purpose, so we are told, of fighting communism, are now obedient to the communist WORLD FEDERATION OF TRADE UNIONS, the super-union which sits in Prague . And as the labor unions of a country go, so goes the country . For a time the former French Congo, capital of which is Brazzaville, was anticommunist, pro-Tshombe and adamant in its refusal to permit the Algerians to train communist-backed Angolan rebels on its soil. Eventually, through labor unions, the government headed by the pro-Western Abbe Fulbert Youlou was toppled in 1962 and Brazzaville became the base for a communist revolt in the Congo which cost the life of Dr . Carlson and hundreds of others, necessitated an air rescue mission and plunged Africa into deeper chaos . Here are a few points to bear in mind as the Johnson administration does what Goldwater was pilloried for advising that we do just six months ago . THE ORGANIZATION WHICH BLEW UP THE AMERICAN EMBASSY IN SAIGON on March 30, killing and maiming Americans and Vietnamese # is known as the FRONT NATIONAL DE LIBERATION, the military force of which is the Viet Cong . To be honest about it, the communist FNL using terrorist methods against Americans in Saigon in a fake war against "neo-colonialism" and the communist FLN in Algeria whose throwing of bombs into French theaters and cafes was condoned by The New York Times, Time Magazine and Marguerite Higgins, are part and parcel of one worldwide movement. The Gbenye "liberation forces" which killed Dr . Carlson were a local

Page 2 manifestation of the same classic tactics . Such acts are atrocities when practiced against us, but, though today Algeria is Europe's Cuba, our press, radio, TV and Senator Kennedy found Algerian terrorism laudable when practiced against our allies . This brings up a delicate subject. CONSERVATIVE COLUMNIST HENRY TAYLOR was the first to raise the question of France' s outstanding war debt to America, in relation to de Gaulle's attack on the dollar . Others followed . It was suggested that Washington refuse to redeem in gold the banknotes held by de Gaulle until the amount owed America by France is paid . There are several reasons why the liberal economists of the Washington administration will shy away from such action . For one thing, it would only make de Gaulle's offensive against the dollar more popular, since a vast portion of the public in France today feels that they have spent more fighting communists that were financed, armed and agitated as part of America's crusade against colonialism (in Indo-China and Algeria) than the sum involved . Refusal to meet demands, in gold, whatever the reason, would be regarded on the world money market as admission that bankruptcy is just around the corner ; a flood of banknotes presented for payment in gold would follow . And last ; It is quite possible that Washington's new school of economists, clamoring for an international currency without gold backing, wishes to see America's gold reserves depleted . Those responsible for halting gold production during World War II and the dissipation of America's gold reserves thereafter are also dedicated to better relations with Russia . In March, 1964, Russia, now No . 1 gold producer of the world, halted her massive dumping on the Zurich, Paris and London markets . Russian reserves have mounted. Washington's difficulties present an opportunity to negotiate Russian gold against the revision of the list of American products barred from exportation to the communist bloc . In sum, those who squandered America's treasure can now use the shortage they created as justification for lowering barriers which they opposed in the first place . Like the gold shortage, all of the rancors America faces today among her allies, and most of the troubles demanding urgent measures, can be traced back to the senseless crusade to convert stable and prosperous colonies into chaotic, pro-communist nations, which the Miami Herald regards as an experiment 100% successful for the West . (Jean Larteguy, author of The Centurions and one of the most popular writers in France, has just published a new novel called Les Tambours de Bronze . The plot : how Americans forced the French out of Indo-China . More and more European writers are finding exploitation of such rancors profitable . ) ROOSEVELT AND STALIN BLUEPRINTED THE ANTI-COLONIALIST PROGRAM in their secret conference in Teheran on December 1, 1943, as we mentioned in our March report . A race to rake in the rich morsels of the old empires of their allies ensued . Roosevelt, Stalin, and the United Nations organization which they created--all three recognized the importance of politicized labor unions as roadbeds for revolution . So Russia set up a communist WORLD FEDERATION OF TRADE UNIONS (WFTU) in Prague, with a communist student super-union as a sort of junior order . American labor rigged up its own empire, the INTERNATIONAL CONFEDERATION OF FREE TRADE UNIONS (ICFTU) in Brussels . UN's body for sowing revolution at labor level was the INTERNATIONAL LABOR ORGANIZATION (ILO) in Geneva . Volumes could be written on the teamwork of these three international labor organizations in the purely negative drive to eject Europeans from their colonies . After that they became rivals in a scramble for the pieces . It was an uneven struggle, for in the end Prague always won and it was the communist student union's orders that the universities of the West obeyed . Cabot Lodge was America's delegate to United Nations, but never did a vote of his oppose the Algerian FLN or any other so-called "Liberation Front" supported by the ILO, on whose governing body his son George was sitting . There was no reciprocal ILO support when America was under fire . In October, 1962, this newsletter reproduced the order sent out from Prague for students of all nations to demonstrate before American embassies, stage parades, launch protests against American war-mongering and, above all, keep the Prague

Page 3 office informed of "spontaneous student attacks on America" as new disarmament talks opened in Geneva . WORD OUT OF EUROPE IN MARCH, 1965, HAS IT THAT PRAGUE IS ABOUT TO REPEAT AN OLD STRATEGY : In 1960 French conscripts were called upon to desert or to resort to insubordination if forced into the army. A petition signed by 125 artists, actors and intellectuals backed the communist order . Signers included Jean Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and Simone Signoret, the German girl who as Henrietta Kaminker fled Hitler's Germany and took refuge behind the army to which, in 1960, she recommended desertion and insubordination . Reports now indicate that a similar drive is about to be bea med at young Americans being called to fight Vietnam's FNL . A GIRL NAMED DJAMILA BOUHIRED WAS THE BOMB-MOLL OF ALGERIA'S FLN . The American press extolled her as a new Joan of Arc . When France's communist students staged street demonstrations and set up intelligence networks serving the FLN, one of their leaders was a communist lawyer named Verges who is now married to Djamila Bouhired and engaged in organizing a Peking-dominated communist party in France . Supplied with ample funds, Verges mobilizes cells, holds meetings, and regiments new crops of students against the West through two publications--a slick magazine called Revolution and a newspaper called L'Humanite Nouvelle . Two associations, Amities Franco-Chinoises and Les Cercles Marxistes-Leninistes , enroll recruits . PARIS, LYON AND MARSEILLES already have powerful pro-Peking propaganda a nd recruiting machines; others exist in Belgium, Switzerland and Italy . Particularly militant in Europe's new communism governed from Peking are artists and intellectuals-which reminds us : The Italian composer, Luigi Nono, was denied an American visa as a member of Italy's Communist Party. This did not exclude him from the offer of a $20, 000 plus housing grant by Ford Foundation last summer, for a year's work in West Berlin . (An Italian top-rank communist could accomplish a great deal in West Berlin in a year, with $20, 000 plus housing as an operating fund .) On February 5, 1965, the State Department granted Nono a visa. Whether or not Ford Foundation had a role in the reversal is unknown . In March of 1960, when a French communist student group known as the Jeanson network was uncovered in Paris, Verges was the ring's defender . One of the girls accused of sheltering FLN gunmen in her room and carrying money and arms between terrorists in different sections of Paris was a Los Angeles "art student" named Gloria de Her rera . When the group was finally brought to trial in the Cherche Midi Prison, several seats were vacant . Some defendants had been spirited behind the Iron Curtain ; Gloria was whisked home by an accommodating embassy and has never been heard of since . She is probably somewhere in America, about to advise GI's to desert or disobey orders . When Verges was Ben Bella's advisor, according to French reports, the mistress of one of Ben Bella's associates was a girl named Michelle Duclos . Michelle was arrested with three negroes in New York in February, 1965, for smuggling in dynamite, in a plot to blow up the Statue of Liberty and the Liberty Bell . A TRUTH EMERGES FROM THE TENUOUS THREADS OF THE WEST'S LIBERAL ORGANIZATIONS : The Left is international . In a cries-crossing web, leftist associations and committees reach back and forth across oceans, smoothing the way for each communist advance . There is no conservative counterbalance on even a national scale, much less a joining of hands of conservatives across the sea . At 55 rue de la Glaciere, in Paris' 13th arrondissement, an American liaison representative links the Redcontrolled French National Students' Union (UNEF) with American students of the U .S . National Students' Association . An "Experiment in International Living" program will send over 2, 000 young Americans abroad to study with host families in the summer of 1965 . Many will return indoctrinated . The one place where Russia would like a subversive movement is Alaska . The Herald Tribune of March 7, 1965, told its readers ecstatically how "friends" had helped an

Page 4 Eskimo named Igagruk to finish high school in Tennessee, then sent him to George Washington University. And now he is going to Poland to study for two months! All of these seemingly unrelated events and developments lead back to the war which Americans are fighting in South Vietnam. ACCUSATIONS THAT AMERICA IS WAGING GAS WARFARE will be a dominant theme in the Red propaganda drive in the next few months, though the gas used is of short effect and more humanitarian than bullets . No word of disapproval was heard from Britons now conducting the "Drive for Peace in South Vietnam" when the London Sunday Observer of August 18, 1963, carried a Dennis Bloodworth report that Ngo dinh Nhu's forces had burned at least 62 Buddhist demonstrators in Hue, some seriously, with a toxic gas similar to the mustard gas used in World War I . The Paris weekly Candide carried a similar report on August 14 and Paris Presse on August 17, with no murmur of protest from the international Left. France-Soir of August 18, 1963, reported the use of tear gas at Nha-Trang, 250 miles south of Saigon, against demonstrators denouncing the Diem regime, still with no echo in the American or European press . Why does the international Left rise in protest of America's use of non-lethal gas now? The answer is : To place America in the defendant's box at a conference table dominated by UN . KENNETH YOUNG, FORMER AMBASSADOR TO THAILAND and one of the Americans responsible for America's obstinate backing of the family that drove most of Vietnam into the arms of the Reds, published an article in the Chicago Daily News in midMarch . Excerpts of it were reprinted in Newsweek of March 29, 1965 . The 1955 holder of State Department's Vietnam desk, who once offered a Vietnamese the ambassadorship to Washington if he would "go along" with the team, recommended a "Mekong project, " beamed at Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam . Said he, "The countries of the Mekong basin all want a Mekong project . . . They have been effectively working together in their own 'Mekong Committee', under UN auspices . . . The United Nations General Assembly might later cap it all with enablement for a 'Mekong Valley Authority' ." Here is the key to U Thant's appeal for both sides to move to the conference table: a "Mekong project, " supported by America but administered by the anti-Western bloc in UN . _STANLEY KARNOW WROTE IN SATURDAY EVENING POST OF MARCH 27, 1965, "One tough ex-officer, who first parachuted into Vietnam during World War II, knew , the Vietnamese leaders so intimately that one night last September he personally dissuaded a rebellious Vietnamese general from staging a private revolt . That initiative, along with other unconventional gestures, earned him a quick transfer to Africa. Said one of Taylor's deputies, 'We don't want any Lawrences of Asia . "' Translated into plain English : Washington wants no American in Southeast Asia whose finger is closer to the pulse of events than that of the top . (Africa is the place to which most of the architects of America's disastrous Southeast Asia policies have been transferred . ) HOW PASSING OF THE HOT POTATO TO UN MIGHT BE ACCOMPLISHED : In our March Report we touched on former Communist Intelligence Chief, Colonel Albert Pham ngoc Thao (rhymes with _how) and his attempt to seize power in Saigon on February 19 . Thao has still not been arrested. This means that someone is hiding him or that the Vietnamese government dares not haul him in. One of three forces must be hiding Thao: Powerful Americans, who undoubtedly slipped him into the country from Washington on December 27, 1964; Ngo dinh Nhux-s 70, 000-man secret police organization, which Thao commanded until October 31, 1963 ; or the communists, in whose government Thao's brother Gaston is a high official . As long as Thao is at liberty anything can happen. One of the premises is that Thao and General Tran thien Khiem, Vietnam ambassador to Washington (Diem's godson who saved the regime at the time of the attempted coup d'etat of November 11, 1960), are in a comeback move, along with Americans responsible for Washington's 1954 to 1963 policy . Thao was the intermediary through whom Nhu had admittedly been negotiating with Hanoi before his death . There is no doubt that if Thao were in power the Viet Cong

Page 5 offensive would cease, giving the impression that our side was well on top, and America could honorably pull out . Maintenance of the status quo would then be up to UN's "Mekong Valley Authority . " Thao is wily. After all, he has had experience in changing sides . Though he deserted Diem and Nhu on October 31, 1963, and spent the night on the radio, broadcasting for the rebels, he is reported to have persuaded Nhu's widow that he did it to save the "organization"--that he had no idea his chief would be assassinated. The fact remains that the minute Thao and Khiem reached Washington Madame Nhu's debts in America, amounting to between $11, 000 and $14, 000, were paid by the Washington embassy . There is also a possibility that Thao, in his attempted coup d'etat of February 19, had access to other money : NO. 59 OF "DEMO '60", THE PUBLICATION OF FRENCH SOCIALIST LEADER GUY MOLLET, on December 8, 1960, brought up the possibility of Diem and his family someday losing power . Until the blow-up became imminent Mollet's party was a staunch supporter of Diem. Wrote DEMO's Far East authority, Georges Penchenier, "One must have a springboard for a comeback, and above all a fortune to permit continuation of the fight . Diem's treasure has been put in a safe place abroad . Nhu, no more than Diem, lives in ostentatious luxury . The money slowly amassed by the intelligent Madame Nhu will serve, in case of necessity, to regroup the faithful in exile, to buy arms and to support secret agents . " Yves Gandon wrote in the Paris daily L'Aurore, of March 18, 1958, that the Nhus had purchased the Rex moving picture chain in Paris . The road to a sell-out at the conference table will be as tortuous as is all oriental politics . Since the end of World War II it has been impossible for a loyal American to write an honest report on America's Far East policies without fear of retaliation . Your correspondent has been writing on Indo-China since 1939, and a book by him, exposing in detail who did what, where, how and when, in America's so-called experiment in South Vietnam will appear in about two months . It will be the public's file on the file-stuffers deciding policies . For it must not be forgotten that in 1959 those responsible for America's Southeast Asia policy tried to muzzle and immobi lize your reporter by blocking his passport . Victims of such actions are not permitted to see State Department files against them, or question petty officials using such files to "get" their personal enemies . Such a precaution is understandable when one considers that any absurdity can be filed against a lone citizen with impunity . He has no powerful machine to come to his aid, as do the communists . In 1959 one of the idiotic reports on your correspondent in his State Department file asserted that H. du B . had organized and was directing the opposition in South Vietnam because he hoped to become Minister of Foreign Affairs in the government that would succeed Diem. THE BOOK "EYEWITNESS STORY", by Madame Suzanne Labin, has caused confusion in America in recent months . In its foreword Mr . Bryton Barron states that "our military ally" (the Diem government) was "demonstrably winning the war against our common enemy" at the time of Diem's assassination . Nothing could be further from the truth, as communist gains since 1960 attest . In Eye-Witness Story , among other inaccuracies showing the author's lack of any profound knowledge of the country or its people, Phan quang Dan, sentenced to ten years in Paulo Condor prison after the attempted coup d'etat of November 11, 1960, is called "Pham Wuang Dan" . His tenyear prison sentence is described as "exile" . That Dan appeared "vigorous" when he came out and was able to hold a press conference is advanced as proof of the Diem r.eg ime's leniency . The truth is, an invisible umbrella protected Dan . He had worked with America's OSS during World War II and organized an American-backed political party after V -J Day . For years Diem and Nhu arrested others, but not Dan, the man rumored to be an agent of CIA . To please the Americans, Diem named Dan his "legal opposition" before he took off for America in May, 1957. Dan was never permitted to campaign, however, and when elected to the National Assembly he was forcibly thrown

Page 6 out . Until complicity with the rebels in November, 1960, made American protection of him embarrassing, Diem never dared arrest him . Even then Dan's "special treatment" was assured . Eye-Witness Story is more a book of name-dropping than testimony . Defense of Diem and his brother consists mainly of accounts made by the two men to the author, whose photograph, taken with the Vietnamese president, is in turn her claim to importance . Such statements as "President Diem commented . . . " and "The opening gambit of the grim game . . . was fully disclosed to me by the late Councillor Nhu and President Diem," abound . Far be it from your correspondent to speak a good word for Cabot Lodge or our Saigon embassy, but let us be realistic : If Cyrus Eaton were to whitewash Russia on the basis of conversations and close friendship with Khrushchev, whose apologist he was, and present a picture of himself sitting with Khrushchev to prove that he is an authority, what conservative would take him seriously? In fact, who but a friend of American labor bosses, the woman whose 1960 lecture tour in France, on returning from America, was sponsored by the French socialist labor union, FORCE OUVRIERE, would have been commissioned by our State Department to write a treatise on Soviet propaganda? The account of that visit to America filled two issues of France-USA, the far from conservative journal jointly supported by labor unions and the American embassy in Paris and published by a man addressed as "the delegate Makinsky" . Who else could attack the American government as Suzanne Labin does in her 98-page booklet and still, as an alien, sail in and out of America as easily as a native?

Address all domestic business correspondence to H. du B. Reports, Box 855, Huntington, Indiana . Address all foreign business correspondence to Hilaire du Berrier, Hotel Lutetia, 43 Blvd. Raspail, Paris VI, France . Subscription price : $10 per year . Extra copies of this newsletter : regular subscribers ; rates on large quantities given on request . 20~ each to

Hilaire du Berrier, Correspondent Jennie Edmonds, Managing Editor

VOLUME VIII, LETTER 2 MAY, 1965

FOREIGN AFFAIRS LETTER

H. du B. REPORTS

PARIS, FRANCE

MANY THINGS TOOK PLACE IN APRIL OF 1965 . Above ground was President Johnson' s famous speech of April 7, in which he offered a billion dollars in tribute, which Ho chi Minh would share with the other nations of the "Mekong basin" if Ho would quit fighting . Down in Santo Domingo Castro-inspired rebels touched off a revolution on the assurance that Washington lawyer Abe Fortas, the long-time Johnson friend who succeeded in keeping the Walter Jenkins scandal out of Washington papers until the Republicans heard about it, would block American action while extreme-Left former President Juan Bosch was restored to power . When the plan failed, Bosch's supporters threw off their masks, whereupon Abe Fortas' associate in the venture, a Puerto Rican professor named Jaime Benitez said, "Now, see, the communists are coming into it!" At least, that is the only interpretation one could give to the New York Times' explanation of the affair on May 6 . Underground the pivotal event of international importance was a three-day meeting of Prince Bernhard's Bilderberg group in palatial Villa d'Este in Como, Italy, from April 2 to 4 . Hardly anyone heard of this meeting; a brief Reuters' dispatch appeared in the New York Times of April 5, and mention was made of the meeting in the New York Daily News, but America's great press and news agencies in general remained silent . TO UNDERSTAND THE REAL MEANING OF THIS FOURTEENTH BILDERBERG MEETING, let us go back to the fall of 1964 and study a poll which John J . McCloy, Chairman of the Board of the Council on Foreign Relations, had commissioned the Survey Research Center of the University of Michigan to conduct . Such polls have become classic procedure in America: Canvassers ask what purports to be a cross-section of the public a series of often-loaded questions . The answers, accompanied by appropriate publicity, are held up as proof of approval, in other words, a mandate . Implementation of the policy under discussion (already decided upon by the group commanding the survey) follows . Time Magazine of December 25, 1964, stated that 1, 501 people had been questioned in the Council on Foreign Relations Survey . In reply to "What kind of government does most of China have now? " or "Do you happen to know if there is any Communist government in China now? ", 28% were reported by the University of Michigan team as saying that they did not know . Next, 39% stated that they did not know of the existence of the Nationalist Chinese government . Of those aware of the two Chinas, 62% opposed U . S . support of the Nationalists if they were to attack the mainland . 75% were in favor of the U. S . remaining in UN when and if Communist China is admitted . Only 5% favored U . S . withdrawal . Concerning the fighting in Vietnam, 25% claimed to have heard nothing about it . How the 1, 501 people questioned in this survey were selected the public has no way of knowing . Suffice to say, the objective of the Council on Foreign Relations is clear: Repudiation of Nationalist China, recognition of Red China and Peking's admission to the UN, and a walk off the field in South Vietnam, since a quarter of America, according to Mr . McCloy's convenient survey, does not know there is a war going on in the first place . A LAPSE OF THREE MONTHS FOLLOWED ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE SURVEY'S FINDINGS -- three months in which the majority figures and Mr ., McCloy's comments were channeled into government offices in Washington, the Royal Institute of Foreign Affairs in London, Holland's Institute of Foreign Affairs in The Hague, Austria's Institute of Foreign Affairs and other foreign affiliates of the Council on Foreign Relations too numerous to mention. Obviously synchronization for some sort of international drive was afoot . Under other fronts, such as the Common Market, a solidarity campaign was stepped up . In early March thirty-eight Dutch personalities, including former Prime Ministers William Drees and Jan de Quay, addressed an open letter to Foreign Minister (and Bilderberg member) Joseph Luns, criticizing General de Gaulle's attempt to organize Western Europe's defense and foreign policy under himself -- in other words, to contest the right of the supra-national Common Market government in Brussels to handle such matters . Paris' policy, which the thirty-eight letter-writers deplored, was essentially de Gaulle opposition to super-statism as a threat to himself, and a letter to Joseph Luns was not going to change it .

Page 2 . What the prominent Dutchmen charged, on the eve of the Como meeting, was that France was weakening the lines uniting Western Europe with her Anglo-Saxon partners . "Such a policy, " they stated, "leads to a rebirth of nationalism (the patriotism decried by Walt Rostow), and seriously undermines the defense of Europe . We have always struggledthat the process of integration should not be limited to the Six but should include Great Britain (and U . S . , understood) and the other countries of Europe . " (Parenthetical observations ours .) Nothing was said of the area in which French co-operation with Holland was complete . Aux Ecoutes , the Paris diplomatic weekly, reported that France was buying Cuban sugar while extending credits for purchases made by the Cuban economics mission in Paris, and that Castro was depositing his personal fortune in Holland. A short time after the solidarity letter to Mr . Luns, Bilderberg members on both sides of the Atlantic began packing their bags for the hush-hush meeting in Como . LITTLE INFORMATION OF WHAT TRANSPIRED WAS PERMITTED TO REACH THE OUTSIDE WORLD . Mr . John J . McCloy, formerly head of Chase Manhattan Bank and currently board chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations, is on the steering commit tee of the Bilderberg group. Among the Americans known to have attended the Como meeting was David Rockefeller, currently president of Chase Manhattan Bank . At the end of the meeting, whose participants were described as "political and economic figures . . . . exploring ways to achieve world peace", a communique was issued stating that they believed that only a united Europe could join the United States in effective direction of the Atlantic alliance . So let us sum it up : Eighty-some politicians and financiers from America and Western Europe met in secret for three days to discuss "ways to achieve world peace", which is to say, their way of settling America's war in South Vietnam. Another goal of the participants was "a united Europe" for the purpose of being able to "join the United States in effective direction of the NATO alliance" . Translated into realistic English, this means, "The Bilderberg members agreed that by uniting they can appropriate unto themselves enough 'effective direction' of NATO to make the Atlantic alliance an instrument for the implementation of their policies instead of someone else's . " With the two admitted reasons for the Como gathering in mind, the 1964 survey made for Mr . McCloy by University of Michigan and the use to which the findings of said survey were put at Villa d'Este become clear . As quietly as they came, the internationalists separated . THREE DAYS ELAPSED. THEN ON APRIL 7 PRESIDENT JOHNSON WENT ON THE AIR . In substance the President said that, if the North Vietnamese would quit fighting, America would spend a billion dollars on a Marshall Plan for Southeast Asia . Max Frankel explained the proposal in the New York Times of April 8 as emanating from the President's "personal desire to yield to and appeal to opinion abroad, to convey hope for peace in Asia and to erase the impression that the President and his country were heartless, stubborn and unreasonable where peace was at stake . " Another wish, according to Mr . Frankel, was "to suggest that Hanoi could profit from a settlement . " The opinion abroad to which Johnson wished to appeal and to yield was already being mobilized by Prince Bernhard's Bilderbergers . There were other interpretations of the President's offer besides Mr . Frankel's . No matter how the American press and the Bilderberg world's "political and economic leaders", apprised of what was coming long in advance, might gild such an offer and whip up expressions of approval and support for it, to the Orient only one interpretation was possible : President Johnson was offering a billion dollars in tribute if Ho chi Minh would quit fighting . The natural reaction of the Oriental when made such a proposition is to spit . And that is what he did in North Korea, Hanoi and Jakarta . To America's enemies the proffering of such a carrot was admission of defeat, evidence that victory was in the bag ; consequently, Hanoi would lose, not profit, by being bought off. Psychologically the offer nullified our bombings .

AS OF THAT MOMENT THE SITUATION WAS AS FOLLOWS : American patriots, and realists abroad, had grounds for believing what they hoped was true : namely, that since American planes were bombing communist bases in the North, President Johnson meant

Page 3 . business . Big . financiers of the Bilderberg group, American and European, who had made a clean-up through the Marshall Plan in Europe, believed that in return for their support Johnson would permit them to repeat the big boondoggle in Southeast Asia .

TO THE INTERNATIONAL LEFT , encouraging anti-war-in-Vietnam demonstrations in front of the White House, the President's offer to negotiate unconditionally was an invitation to strike while the iron was hot, to obtain American withdrawal and the billion dollars in tribute as well . (American socialist Norman Thomas was a member of Ho chi Minh's lobby, "American-Vietnam Friendship Association", in 1947 ; Ngo dinhDiem-s lobby, "American Friends of Vietnam", in 1956; and a backer of students demonstrating for a Vietnam sell-out in April, 1965 . Said Adlai Stevenson, "A search for the consensus and a will to compromise should guide our policies ." John J . McCloy, through University of Michigan's polling of 1, 501 people, had already sought and found the "consensus" . The will to compromise appeared on April 7 . Bilderberg member Senator Fulbright left no doubt where he stood . "The United States should cease the bombing of North Vietnam in order to expedite peace talks, " said Senator Fulbright, the exponent of negotiation from weakness, i. e . , surrender . Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs Paul-Henri Spaak, the international socialist to whom for a decade the West looked for protection when he was civilian head of NATO, was also in Fulbright's corner . But then, even before he served as middle-man for America's unprofitable nuclear test ban treaty with Russia (H. du B. Reports, Sept ., 1963), former NATO-head Spaak had always been an advocate of surrender . A story common in Europe has it that Spaak not only did not try to extradite Belgian collaborator Leon Degrelle from Spain after World War H but banned his return to Belgium be cause of the file on Spaak which Degrelle would bring with him : In 1940, so the account goes, when German troops invaded Belgium King Leopold refused to deal with the occupation forces . Messrs . Spaak and Pierlot, both in the government at the time, contacted the Germans for the purpose of discussing a separate peace . When the French lines collapsed, an armistice with Germany was signed by the king, an armistice which Spaak used as a pretext for ousting King Leopold in 1951 . Degrelle, sitting in Madrid and watching Spaak pose as the West's warrior at the head of NATO, held up his sleeve the dossier on Spaak's and Pierlot's surrender effort, which the Germans gave Degrelle as blackmail ammunition to protect himself before they pulled out of Belgium. Spaak, like Senator Fulbright, would support President Johnson's offer of tribute in return for "unconditional negotiation" . Such was the climate in which President Johnson delivered his April 7 speech, the terms of which were no doubt known to Prince Bernhard and his closed circle of international political and financial figures long enough in advance to convoke a meeting in which their follow-up could be meticulously prepared . THREE DAYS LATER, ON APRIL 10, Prince Bernhard appeared in Michigan . Whether the trip was to confer with American labor leaders usually represented at Bilderberg conferences, or solely for the "deeper understanding among human beings" speech he made at Hope College in Holland, Michigan, is still unknown. A desire to be out of the Netherlands while a new government was being formed to replace the cabinet of Prime Minister Victor G . M. Marijnen may have had something to do with it . In this new government Bilderberg member Joseph M . A. H . Luns retained his post as Minister of Foreign Affairs . Mr . Joseph M . L . T . Cals, of the Roman Catholic People's Party, replaced Mr . Marijnen . As finally constituted, five seats in the new government went to the Roman Catholic People's Party, five to the socialists and three to the Calvinists . Such details may seem unimportant to Americans still thinking of Holland as a small country, unimportant and far away . Such thinking fails to consider the power, out of all proportion to Holland's size, exercised through interlocking organizations whose whirring national machines sell policies formulated by an inner circle working behind the snob-appeal facade of Holland's Prince Consort .

Only Mr . Rostow's university appearance in Japan was cancelled . The names of the "number of private groups" he "briefed" were not divulged . Since Mr . Rostow, who was appointed by presidents sworn to defend the constitutional integrity of America, proclaims his dedication to the principle that the day of nations and nationality is past, he presumably bore the message promulgated by the super- staters in Villa d'Este on April 2, 3 and 4, and not necessarily a speech in America's interest .

NOT UNTIL A NEW YORK TIMES DISPATCH OUT OF TOKYO ON APRIL 16 announced that protesting "student demonstrations" were under way did Americans get an inkling that Walt Whitman Rostow, Chairman of the State Department's Policy Planning Council, had been dispatched to address The Japanese Council for International Friendship, which is described as "an organization of political and business leaders interested in world affairs . " In other words, the Japanese equivalent of America's Council on Foreign Relations, Britain's Royal Institute of Foreign Affairs, etc .

Page 4 .

While Mr . Rostow made his sales talk in Tokyo, it was announced on April 13 that Henry Cabot Lodge, former head of The Atlantic Institute, would speak for President Johnson in Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Taiwan, Japan, Korea and India . Taken all in all, the developments of the first two weeks in April boded ill for America and the world . Announcement on April 17 that garment workers' boss Dave Dubinsky would receive the "Golden Door Award" for 1965 as the "American of foreign birth who had made a significant contribution to the culture of the U . S . " was more of the same . What culture? ABOVE ARE THE BARE DETAILS, THE VISIBLE PART OF THE ICEBERG. But what to do about them? Apprehensive citizens wondered how they could dismantle these inter national organizations, the self-elected members of which meet in secret . Taken together, with all their minor organizations, they are powerful enough to by-pass Congress and parliaments and turn governments into agencies for the implementation of projects ranging from one-worldism to treasury-looting . To start at this late date and create a machine or press powerful enough to outweigh such a combine is out of the question . It was the thirteenth gathering of the Bilderbergers, in Williamsburg, Virginia, from March 20 to 22, 1964, that brought Prince Bernhard's group to the attention of enough Europeans to make the question pertinent . Until then only a few initiates were aware that since May, 1954, an invisible super-state government had taken root, grown, and assumed sufficient importance to make the western world a testing ground for the revo lutionary ideas of a small but powerful clique . Certain publications in Canada had focused attention on Prince Bernhard's congresses as early as 1957 . In Britain only Candour, published in London by the League of Empire Loyalists, showed interest in Bilderberger deliberations . One Dutch editor, Mr . H. A. Lunshof, of Elseviers Weekblad, Amsterdam, had the temerity to bring the Bilderberg group's discussions of Dutch affairs and ours to the attention of Dutchmen . Even after the Bilderbergers intruded into French politics in March, 1964, in Williamsburg, Virginia, by according world leader status to Gaston Defferre, the socialist mayor of Marseilles, then launching his candidacy for the 1965 presidential campaign in France, the vast majority of politically-conscious Frenchmen knew nothing of the group's existence . The Bilderbergers, on the other hand, saw that their respective countries knew nothing of the conservative candidate whom de Gaulle, Defferre and the internationalists were out to beat, the noted lawyer, Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancourt . That America has been kept in the dark could not be because the press is excluded from Bilderberg sessions, since Charles D . Jackson, senior vice president of TIME, Inc . , is himself a member and was present at the Williamsburg parley . Others there were David Rockefeller, Senator Fulbright, Max Kohnstamm, Vice President of the Action Committee for the United States of Europe ; Shepherd Stone, director of the International Affairs program of Ford Foundation, McGeorge Bundy ; John J . McCloy ; Joseph E . Johnson, president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Senator Javits, etc . LET US TRACE THE GROWTH OF THE BILDERBERGER ORGANIZATION . Over 210 members are regarded as "on the inside" . Among them figure men prominent at the Bretton Woods and Dumbarton Oaks Conferences, the men who produced United Nations,

Page 5 . the World Bank, and Bank of International Settlements . Bilderberg interference in the internal affairs of western nations was stepped up through treasonable support of revolts within the colonies of countries of the very men present . Eventually we find in the group such men as Irving Brown, American labor's delegate to the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) in Belgium, and Omar Becu, the ICFTU head himself, the two of them engaged in underwriting a terrorist movement all over Africa and particularly one in Algeria which was destined to create Europe' s Cuba . (H . du B . Reports, Sept . , 1963) The fourteen Bilderberg meetings to date have been : 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10 . 11 . 12 . 13 . 14 . Oosterbeek, The Netherlands, May 29-31, 1954 Barbizon, France, March 18-20, 1955 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, September 23-25, 1955 Fredensborg, Denmark, May 11-13, 1956 St . Simon's Island, Georgia, United States, February 15-17, 1957 Fiuggi, Italy, October 4-6, 1957 Buxton, United Kingdom, September 13-15, 1958 Yesilkoy, Turkey, September 18-20, 1959 Burgenstock, Switzerland, May 28-29, 1960 St . Castin, Canada, April 21-23, 1961 Saltsjobaden, Sweden, May 18-20, 1962 Cannes, France, March 29-31, 1963 Williamsburg, Virginia, United States, March 20-22, 1964 Como, Italy, April 2-4, 1965

After meeting No . 12 in Cannes, March 29-31, 1963, the "European Institutes of International Affairs" gathered in Klessheim Castle, near Salzburg, Austria, to discuss "public opinion and diplomacy, " i. e ., how to impose policies by molding public opinion . Representing Britain was Kenneth Younger, Director of the Royal Institute of Foreign Affairs, Chatham House, 10 St . James Square, London, S. W . 1 . Speaking for America was Arthur Schlesinger, Jr . In January, 1964, the European institutes met in The Hague, under Bilderberger Joseph Luns, Holland's Foreign Minister and member of the Common Market triumvirate . This time the authority on America was CBS European chief, David Schoenbrunn, whose efforts to apply the Hitler image to Senator Goldwater were by no stretch of the imagination honest reporting . In the Royal Institute of Foreign Affairs meeting of October 4, 1960, sponsored by Kenneth Younger, the American invited to tell the combined European institutes about Latin America was none other than Mr . Herbert Matthews, Castro's guarantor from the New York Times . THE BILDERBERGER PARLEY IN COMO BROUGHT UP AN OLD QUESTION : What can the non-socialist citizen do? Where could successful dismantling of the pyramid of institutes and councils start? It is conceded that no amount of digging would undermine the interlocking institutes and councils advancing internationalist policies by excluding any opposition . Taken individually, such organs as the Council on Foreign Relations, Europe's chain of foreign affairs institutes and western labor syndicates masking political regimentation appear harmless to a public essentially lazy . Any attempt to show them in their ensemble is attacked by our Javits and Kuchels as "fright-peddling" . The men fronting for these organizations are too powerful, their names too eminently respectable . Out of long discussions on both sides, of the Atlan tic came a basic unity of view : The most vulnerable part of the pyramid is its peak : the Bilderbergers . UN is the world framework within which socialists and communists form a solid front. The Bilderberg "parliament" is western, i . e ., socialist alone. And the Achilles heel of the Bilderbergers is the socially impeccable figure at the top. PRINCE BERNHARD OF LIPPE=BIESTERFELD married Princess Juliana of Holland on January 7, 1937 . The Dutch monarchy into which the German princeling married is a contractual one: What the royal family can and cannot do is clearly defined under

Page 6 . its contract with the Dutch people . By the Dutch constitution no member of the royal family, even a member by marriage, is permitted to meddle in politics . It was this clause which created a minor crisis in April of 1964, when Princess Irene of Holland married Prince Hugo of Bourbon-Parma, the Carlist pretender to the Spanish throne . One month later came the Williamsburg meeting where Holland's affairs as well as America's were discussed, and policies formulated, by men who had no approval from anyone but their own committee . The Williamsburg parley, coming as it did a month after Dutch Prime Minister Marijnen's rebuke to Princess Irene, brought a ray of hope to thousands who disapproved of such meetings but did not know what to do about them. Letters poured into the office of the Dutch Prime Minister in The Hague, begging that the same stern measures applied to the princess and her husband be extended to her father . Not a single American writer received a reply . Instead, a year later, another meeting was convoked to "explore ways to achieve world peace . " A more honest way of defining the April 2-4, 1965, meeting's aims would be : To regiment and synchronize international pressure on America for ground yielding in Vietnam, at the behest of self-appointed internationalists headed by a prince consort under contract to stay out of bot h hi s country's politics and ours . WHETHER THE REPLACEMENT OF PREMIER MARIJNEN BY PREMIER GALS would increase the efficacy of a protesting letter campaign is doubtful . Those who have studied Bilderberg machinations, however, agree that if a thousand letters from irate Americans were to pour into the Dutch embassy in Washington, and if carbon copies of such letters were to be sent to Mr . H. A. Lunshof, Editor, ELSEVIERS WEEKBLAD, Spuistraat 110, Amsterdam, Holland, they would not only receive attention but would probably make the April 2, 1965, Bilderberg Conference the last one . And if 500 more letters were to arrive in the offices of Dutch Shell, Limited, Phillips Electric Company (the American firm of which is NORELCO) and KLM Airlines in Amsterdam, saying, "See that your Prince Consort ceases intriguing with our left-wing politicos and economists or we'll boycott, " it would speed up the dismantling of the John J . McCloyDavid Rockefeller-Prince Bernhard ring . (Prince Bernhard's address, for those who are interested, is : Soestdijk Palace, Amsterdam . Telephone No-. : Baarn 28-41) For further details on the Bilderbergers, see H. du B . Report, September, 1963.

Address all domestic business correspondence to H. du B . Reports, Box 855, Huntington, Indiana . Address all foreign business correspondence to Hilaire du Berrier, Hotel Lutetia, 43 Blvd. Raspk.il, Paris VI, France .

Subscription price : $10 per year . Extra copies of this newsletter 20fi each to regular subscribers ; rates on large quantities given on request . Hilaire du Berrier, Correspondent Jennie Edmonds, Managing Editor

FRANCE OUR REPORT OF MAY, 1965, was devoted to the 14th meeting of the Bilderberg group in Como, Italy, behind the impeccable royal front provided by the Dutch prince-consort . At the time that report was written we did not know that from his appearance in Holland, Michigan, Prince Bernhard was to proceed to Washington, where he would spend three hours in the office of President Johnson. Three hours is a long time for a man as busy as President Johnson, at least for a social visit, which is the only kind Prince Bernhard, by the terms of his country's constitution, is supposed to make . What transpired during this long conversation, as closed to the American public as are Bilderberg meetings themselves, we can only conjecture . President Johnson was giving the appearance of acting resolutely in Vietnam and Santo Domingo, but strange things were going on . While the Chief Executive was proceeding with all the declarations and surface appearances of determination, popular demonstrations against everything he was doing were not only tolerated but encouraged, as though that seemingly forceful leader himself were searching for an out for which the "consensus" rather than himself would be responsible . In all the power shifts and exilings in South Vietnam since November, 1963, a trend was plainly discernible : A government, acceptable to Ho chi Minh, capable of bringing a lull which would make Amer ican withdrawal, at the request of a neutralist government, more palatable to American patriots . Given the anti-war-in-Vietnam sentiments of the artists and writers President Johnson and his team were likely to invite to the White House, and given the fact that anything said artists and writers might say on receiving the invitation or after reaching the White House would be front-page news, a suspicion prevails : The administration is providing a forum for opponents of the policy that common sense and patriotism dictate for the nation . So much for the climate that prevailed when Holland's prince-consort, leader of the group whose leanings are closer to Ho chi Minh than they are to Chiang Kai-shek, was given three hour s to expound the views of his self-appointed "world leaders" . WHILE ATTENTION WAS DRAWN TO THE VIETNAM STRUGGLE AND SANTO DOMINGO, strange things were going on in Europe . We have pointed out that Mr . Gaston Defferre, the socialist mayor of Marseilles, first made his appearance on the international scene as a Bilderberg invitee, in Williamsburg, Virginia, on March 20, 1964 . Walter Winchell, in his column, stated that CIA was backing Deferre in France . While Defferre fought like a lion to form a union of communists, socialists and even middle of the road Catholics to support his candidacy for the presidency of France this fall, Mr . Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancourt, the great lawyer who saved General Salan from execution, emerged as the candidate of the French Right . His chances were estimated by many as comparable to Goldwater's in America . Conservative Catholics and those irate over developments in Algeria would support him. Defferre would have all shades of socialists, the labor unions, quite likely the communists, and the support if not actual votes of nearly a million Algerians, three hundred thousand of them thought to be armed, lying dormant as a future fifth column in France . De Gaulle would have his powerful machine, his press, radio, television, and the banking interests sometimes referred to as the Paris Club . CONJECTURE IS RIFE AS TO WHAT DE GAULLE IS LIKELY TO DO . Few Frenchmen see him descending into the street for a political campaign, his picture on billboards along with the posters of Gaston Defferre and Tixier-Vignancourt . An alternative would be a referendum, a greatly publicized appeal to the nation, such as "Are you in favor of a greater and more prosperous Gaullist France? " Another alternative would be de Gaulle's retirement from the arena and introduction of a new and hitherto unconsidered third man, to all appearances anti-de Gaulle, through whom the present team would continue to rule the country . The word to our readers is : Watch Monsieur Edgar Pinay. The wheels are already turning to make him the "third man" . John J . McCloy, Chairman of the Council on Foreign Rela tions, is one of the directors of the Bilderbergs, as we have pointed out . Both he and David Rockefeller, who succeeded Mr . McCloy as chairman of the board of Chase Manhattan Bank, attended the March 1964 Bilderberg deliberations which turned the spotlight on Gaston Defferre . So did Edgar Pinay . The same four were present at Como in April 1965 . The Defferre smokescreen was still maintained, but Edgar Pinay, "the man who saved the franc", the statesman-economist who looks like the common man, is the candidate in the wings

VOLUME VIII, LETTER 3 JUNE, 1965

FOREIGN AFFAIRS LETTER

H. du B. REPORTS

PARIS

Page 2 . whom the internationalist bankers are about to push onto the stage . Meanwhile, former Prime Minister Edgar Faure, architect of the French accords with Red China, is in America on a lecture tour . NOW LET US TURN BACK TO AMERICA FOR A LOOK AT A PATTERN OF DEVELOPMENTS THAT HAS BECOME FAMILIAR . For months, and with the knowledge and encouragement of America's Left, agitators all over Europe, particularly among the so-called intellectuals -- writers and painters and students of the same mental age, politically -have been protesting American policy in Vietnam. Magnified out of all proportion to their importance, such demonstrations are dutifully given newspaper space in America as ex pressions of foreign opinion. American leftists and the world communist press then take to the streets and meeting halls to call on Washington not to isolate America by ignoring the appeals of the rest of the world. LONG OVERDUE is a report on the deadly efficiency of Atlantic Community (American and European) teamwork with the communist bloc . Far removed as its motivators seem to be fromtheworld of Prince Bernhard and bankers McCloy and Rockefeller, their aims coin cide . Machinery is being set up, not only to give this co-operation of the international Left the appearance of a mighty tide -- the "trend of history" of which we hear so much -- but also to make any opposition to it impossible . PARIS BEING THE SOLAR PLEXUS OF WESTERN DEFENSES IS THE HUB AS USUAL . Until 1964 the some 35, 000 Americans residing in Paris discreetly refrained from airing American differences in the host country . The negro march on the capitol in Washington brought the first indication of change . Headed by the wife of the pastor of the American Church in Paris, a motley crew took to the streets : Blue-jean-clad beatniks, boys with unkempt beards and girls with uncombed hair, joined America's negro colony in Paris, mainly musicians from Montmartre dives whose names make the papers each time French police arrest a dope-pusher with his list of customers. To the American Embassy they marched, to present a petition . That neither the embassy nor the State Department had anything to do with civil rights was immaterial . The dregs of the American colony in Paris, led by the pastor's wife, was determined to air America's dirty linen abroad, and across Place de la Concorde they aired it . A WORD ON THE NEW BREED OF AMERICAN ABROAD . The period between the two wars saw a crop of young Americans, often hard-drinking but generally likable, on the cafe terraces of Montparnasse . Less conspicuous were the wealthy Americans who maintained the American Cathedral and the American Church and made Paris their home . Tourists were sometimes fatuous, often ostentatious, rarely a disgrace to America. The post-World War II era brought a new kind of invasion, the American who made bad manners, personal filth and the extolling of policies described by him as "progressive" a national trait. With him came the myth of "America's unofficial ambassadors abroad" . Roscoe Drummond, in the New York Herald Tribune of May 12, 1957, carried the absurd theme so far as to suggest that President Eisenhower provide every one of them with an "informal appointment" paper as his "private ambassador" . The American Council for Nationalities Services, of 20 West 40th Street, New York, distributed little booklets by the thousands, telling crusading liberals what to say when, as Americans, they were accused of stirring up native peoples in the colonies of our allies . The claim that Americans never agitated anti-colonialist revolts, only supported them after they started, was ridiculous . However, there was little chance that the coatless and tie-less tourist in blue jeans, using the American Express for a mail address and its washroom for his morning shave, would meet any Europeans of a class and political hue likely to disapprove of Franklin D. Roosevelt's secret deal with Stalin at Teheran to strip our allies of their possessions and markets . As ambassadors, our labor union meddlers in foreign affairs and high-riding celebrities were no better . Paris-Presse of July 8, 1962, told its readers that Frankie Sinatra had at last sent a check to pay for the repairing of a Louis XV sofa he had smashed in a hotel in Monte Carlo, in a fit of rage because the concierge had not been sufficiently impressed by his importance . Two years later, on July 10, 1964, the same paper reminded Frankie that Paris is not Chicago . He and his "gorillas" had spent the previous evening throwing firecrackers under ladies' skirts on cafe terraces and telling them to shut up when they

Page 3. screamed . Photographers attempting to take pictures of the performance had their cam eras smashed. On September 19, 1964, Frankie was barring his door to the police, in Spain, after the same "body guards" mauled a Spanish journalist . Zsa-Zsa Gabor provided the feature story in the Nice-Matin of August 9, 1964 . Arriving in Nice from London, on an Air France plane with a tourist class ticket, she insisted that the rest of the passengers be held in their seats while she went out through the first class door to face the photographers . Mrs . Hanna Markow, daughter of Britain's Lord Marks, was not having any of it . In the exchange of insults which followed, Zsa-Zsa ended by calling the English woman a dirty Jew. The official Paris police bulletin, "Liaisons", reported on September 13, 1964, that 76 of the filthy vagrants living along the quays of the Seine, wearing sandals and hair that hung to their shoulders, sleeping in sacks and existing by begging, were Americans . Imagine one of these tramps holding up to a French gendarme a paper from the President of the United States naming him an unofficial ambassador! Long before the deliberate mud-slinging of the 1964 election, for which David Schoenbrun apologized to Goldwater after it was over, but never to the Americans and Europeans he lied to, America's image had become a distasteful caricature at the hands of Dean Acheson, John Foster Dulles, Christian Herter and Dean Rusk . 1964 was to see its blackening by our "unofficial ambassadors" themselves, and even our official ones, who threw non-partisanship to the winds and entered into the name-calling . THE FIRST ATTEMPT TO REGIMENT AMERICAN EXPATRIATES, whether business men, students, military personnel, employees of America's countless government agencies or admittedly anti-social tramps, came with the Johnson political campaign, directed in France by Alfred E . Davidson, member of the law firm of George Ball, Fowler Hamilton and three other members of the Kennedy-Johnson government . Social barriers ceased to exist . All that counted was the vote . At the height of the Walter Jenkins scandal, with the Bobby Baker story and Billie Sol Estes splashed over front pages, the Reverend Martin Sargent, pastor of the American Church in Paris, (a graduate of Union Theological Seminary and an adherent of the National Council of Churches) called on his flock to vote for Johnson. It was estimated that between 80 and 95% of the Americans in Paris were fanatically antiGoldwater, a euphemism for left-wing. This is a point to be borne in mind in any appraisal of Franco-American relations . Out of the campaign, in which Kirk Douglas stumped Europe as President Johnson's "new volunteer ambassador" (Paris-Presse, Nov. 6, 1964) came the idea of permanent regimentation of Americans abroad . An American liberal "bund", co-operating with European "progressistes", each using the other's pre-arranged clamor as an argument for imposing policies desired by both, emerged overnight . Such activities by internationalist reasoning are non-partisan . LARA -- "LEAGUE OF AMERICANS RESIDING ABROAD" -- is the name given the new foundation. A few details: Among the advisors are Cabot Lodge, George V . Allen, Robert D . Murphy and our former minister to UN, Henry S . Villard. The objectives of LARA may seem innocuous on the surface . Under scrutiny the pitfalls become apparent . "To speak for all members with one voice in Washington . To exchange information and arrange for discussion of common problems . To promote educational programs of international benefit . To provide members with legal, tax, group insurance, absentee ballot and other needed services" are the aims listed . Americans abroad, however, are divided into two categories, and the aggressive ones, those who would take over any organization pieced together, are at the far left and of the political spectrum, with Cabot Lodge, of Atlantic Institute, the new organization's advisor . "The most effective goodwill ambassador for the United States is the well-informed citizen living abroad", states the LARA prospectus . A well-indoctrinated citizen, adding his voice to the support of measures which American liberals say will make us loved by the type of foreign citizen who writes "Americans go home" on the walls, would be closer to the truth . The men who set up "Americans Abroad for Johnson" and SNCC (Students' NonViolent Co-ordinating Committee), in co-operation with the American Church in Paris, the Artists' and Students' Center, the U . S . Information Service and its director with his films and his scholarships to like-minded foreign students and paid visits to America for

Page 4. liberal writers and professors -- all of these must be taken into consideration . Carl T . Rowan's use of USIA to send James Baldwin and the Los Angeles sex criminal, Bayard Rustin, to lecture abroad in U. S. Information Agency centers only exported Americantype anti-white racism to Europe . LARA proposes to work on the international, regional, national and local level. It appeals to "aware Americans" . Aware of what? -- of what is really going on, or what they are told that the so-called "extremists" who oppose it are doing? "Action groups", co-oper ating "with other American associations and clubs", are to carry on local activity . The spectre raises its head of powerful interlocking organizations, pumping directives and funds into Cabot Lodge's Atlantic Institute, Irving Brown's international labor union centers (such as FRANCE-USA, in Paris), extending America's internal civil rights squabble, and alternately regimenting and reporting on Americans abroad. LARA Headquarters are at 910 Seventeenth Street, N . W ., Washington, D. C . Though the European office is at 348 Rue St . Honore, Paris, the vast flood of mailing matter posted to American residents abroad, their addressograph plates presumably furnished by USIS, is mailed in Zurich . Aside from American nationals, "non-Americans interested in the objectives of the organization" are eligible as associate members . "Local bi-national meetings, with appropriate lectures, films and discussions" (emphasis ours) will be offered as part of the educational aspect of the foundation. It is not difficult to imagine the type of non-American who will be attracted to Cabot Lodge-advised LARA . SIMULTAN EOUSLY WITH THE SETTING UP OF "LARA" CAME THE SURFACING OF "SNCC" in Paris, accompanied by the organization for "Paris American Racial Integration Support" . Except as a provider of propaganda ammunition for the international Left, neither serves a useful purpose . The adopted slogan, is "Civil Rights is your fight, too" . Out of the U. S . Artists' and Students' Center at 261 Blvd. Raspail poured appeals for volunteers willing to do "secretarial work, publicity, fund-raising or other" . Pictures of negroes living in squalor, accompanied by assurances that donations are tax-exempt, flowed to those on LARA's magically-acquired addressograph plates . USIA's Kennedy film was extolled by the Paris edition of the New York Herald Tribune of June 11 as "all the more admirable for showing scenes that frankly depict the poverty of the American negro and the need to redress his wrongs" . All this crying of American culpability abroad will only substantiate everything European communist parties have told their members . It leaves those who would defend us without a leg to stand on . They will be out-shouted by the union of America's LARA with their own liberal organizations of "non-Americans interested in the (same)objectives" . Any improvement of Franco-American understanding that will result will take the form of an international alliance against national conservatives . USING SNCC AND LITERATURE ON PARIS-AMERICAN SUPPORT FOR INTEGRATION as unsolicited admissions of American guilt, the letter-writing section of the "Union of Communist Students in France" (3 Place Paul-Painleve, Paris 5) swung into action, fronting for the Viet Cong center at 2 Rue Monge . "Today the Yankee assassins, those who are shooting down the blacks in the United States, are launching a war in Vietnam as they did in Korea", proclaimed the "U. S. ASSASSINS!" handbills . "In attacking the socialist Democratic Republic of North Vietnam it is the entire socialist camp that they (the Americans) are attackingt" Reports of the Washington "teach-in", Professor Hans Morgenthau's latest pronouncements, and American student demonstrations against the war in Vietnam were eagerly seized as proof of hands-across-the-Atlantic solidarity . There was no organization to raise its voice and tell the world that the anti-American storm, within America and without, was Communist tele-commanded . H. DU B . REPORTS OF OCTOBER, 1962, reproduced in its entirety the directive sent out by the International Students' Union, in Prague, on the occasion of the meeting of the 18nation disarmament conference in Geneva, on March 14, 1962 . The sabotaging of all Arner ican initiative was in that case also "everyone's fight", in the cause of world peace . Students were ordered to publish declarations, organize meetings, demonstrate outside U . S . embassies abroad, write letters to the disarmament committee in Geneva and to the UN Secretary-General, send representatives of national and local students' unions to the embassies of all countries on the committee . Above all, those participating in the mass

Page 5. pressure against America were reminded of the importance of keeping the Prague bureau informed "as soon as such activity is organized" . Said the Prague secretariat, "We need this information in order to give adequate publicity to our common campaign in the publications of the Union of International Students . " This time America's "Intellectual Left", by the thousands, from Hans Morgenthau at the professorial peak to Bettina Aptheker on the student level, is more open than ever before in its obedience to Prague . That Mr . Morgenthau will remain American and a professor, while our boys die in Vietnam, is an indication to foreign patriots of our unreliability as a bulwark . THE UNORGANIZED EUROPEAN ,who has no press or international organization to pose his questions for him and track down the answers, is worried . Before World War II, when the groundwork was being laid for the fifth columns and dormant agents that sprang to life at the time of the Hitler-Stalin Pact and the German break-through, a great deal was heard about "second-hand citizens" -- naturalized nationals using money, votes and powerful or ganizations in support of men and policies undermining the nation . Now experience-educated Europeans read of new laws removing immigration barriers in America, permitting immigrants to acquire a new umbrella of nationality and then, as bona fide Americans, with all the currency and other privileges American nationality entails, go forth and live and agitate where they will. While Russian propaganda warns Europeans not to think that American protection can save them and boasts of sleeping cells in every major American plant, American papers gushed over a new law that will prohibit an American employer, be he a manufacturer of guided missiles or nuclear submarines, from asking a job applicant where he was born. And on June 8, when papers reported the jeering telephone calls received by Mrs . Eleanor O'Sullivan in New York after she had been notified that her husband had been shot down in Vietnam, the first thought of the European reading the report was "Second-hand citizens" . THE REMOVAL OF DISCIPLINE is the first step toward making America's "university Left" the force for mischief that communist-agitated students have become in Latin America and elsewhere . "Freedom of expression" is the line under which the breakdown is carried out . Americans read of the student campaign by obscenities, in California. Conservative Europeans were aghast when they heard that one of the numbers at a "Freedom of Expression" show in the American-Church-sponsored U . S . Artists' and Students' Center in Paris had a boy and girl on the stage, in a sack, going through what the French delicately describe as "the love act", while a student at the side provided rhythm by repeating over and over a four-letter obscenity . PUT ALL THESE SEEMINGLY UNRELATED EVENTS TOGETHER . What they add up to is a complete collapse of America's basic moral foothold abroad and insidious blows against traditional liberty at home since last November . For two decades the erosion went unchecked . Then came the 1964 orgy of debasement. Now we have LARA, to synchronize the pressure choir by which Americans and non-Americans together force their respective non-approver into line . Colored racist organizations have sprung up to link American (and foreign) liberals with the Black (and Algerian, in France) undergrounds at work in countries where Americans reside . UNNOTICED BY AMERICANS but closely watched by analysts in the foreign ministries whose fates and decisions are linked with our own is a move in Washington to pass a measure known as .the Hayes Bill -- HR 6277 . What this bill actually means is that a project is being pushed whereby our Civil Service, along with all our other government agencies and bodies, will be drawn under the control of the Department of State, with its own personnel department, headed by a man and his team, capable of eliminating completely from any branch of government service all those in disagreement with themselves . Tagged for the job, according to confidential foreign reports, is William J . Crockett, Deputy Under Secretary of State . Put it this way : Under such a set-up the Civil Service will lose its last vestige of protection and Americans the last barrier between them and a police state . One man in a Washington office will control the hiring, firing, security clearances, promotions, transfers, investigations and retirement of every American in government employ, with his own special "investigative corps" . Senatorial investigations

Page 6 . or inquiries will no longer be permitted . Demands to look at the files of any individual will be a thing of the past . All this will be handled by one super-chief of personnel. Every indication of the direction in which America is sliding with such rapidity gives reason to believe that man will be of the ilk that thought no word was strong enough and no fate too vile for American constitutionalists when the anti-Goldwater head-hunters were on the rampage in 1964 . Presumably, here also it will be unlawful to ask applicants for the most sensitive jobs in government where they were born . Europe's tragic experiences with "second-hand citizens", men who worked at menial tasks for years, awaiting one crucial half-hour in time of war or an agitation mission in time of crisis, often with the approval and co-operation of native traitors, make our allies shudder . Dear Reader : Our June Report is late . Forgive us . There was an ocean trip, important meetings, Paris press conferences and radio interviews, details accompanying French and American publication of a painstakingly-compiled book on America's senseless four policies in South Vietnam. (The years, study and expense that went into that book could have made me a surgeon . ) The French edition was badly translated and not corrected at all, the American was conscientiously proof-read and is a damning indictment of the State Department which a critic has accused the author of defending. A loyal American writing honest reports on our policies in Asia had a thankless job . He is attacked from every angle . If he told America what Ho chi Minh really was, in the years when Washington openly or covertly backed him, he was in trouble . If he predicted what was certain to happen, when the same crowd backed Ngo dinh Diem and crammed him down the throats of his countrymen, he did so at the risk of his livelihood . It would have been so much easier to sell the popular line . Free rides to Saigon (at the American taxpayer's expense), trips from town to town, passed on from one Diem official to another, then well-oiled publicity machinery building the government guest up as an "authority", wealthy and disinterested -- just "wandering around" to see the scenery -were there for the asking . The alternative was to tell the truth and receive brick-bats and subscription cancellations . When what we predicted happened, those in State Department, USIS, CIA and our foreign aid agency who made disaster inevitable simply tip-toed off the stage and misinformed patriots moved in to prove that the wreckers had been right all the time . Said one of the Washington "elite" insulating the very men who ought to know the truth, "H . du B . tried to reach Senator Thurman, but I couldn't let Thurman see a man like that . He (H . du B .) has been taken in by the Reds ." In "BACKGROUND TO BETRAYAL - The Tragedy of Vietnam" the whole shocking story is spread out on the table, step by step, just as it unfolded . Read it and then decide who was taken in . All the ammunition sound-thinking senators should have is there. Whether it will get past the visitor-and-information-sifters at the door is another matter . BACKGROUND TO BETRAYAL - The Tragedy of Vietnam, may be ordered through H. du B . Reports or direct from WESTERN ISLANDS, 395 Concord Avenue, Belmont 78, Massachusetts ; $1 . 00 for the paperback edition and $4 . 00 for the hard cover. (Enclose 10 cents for postage) . Address all domestic business correspondence to H. du B . Reports, Box 855, Huntington, Indiana; address all foreign business correspondence to Hilaire du Berrier, Hotel Lutetia, 43 Blvd . Raspail, Paris VI, France . Subscription price : $10 per year . Extra copies of this newsletter 20~ each to regular subscribers ; rates on large quantities given on request . Hilaire du Berrier, Correspondent Jennie Edmonds, Managing Editor

VOLUME VIII, LETTER 4 JULY-AUGUST, 1965

FOREIGN AFFAIRS LETTER

H. du B. REPORTS

PARIS, FRANCE

SOS FROM EUROPE'S ORIENTAL FRONT! Since Greece's admission to NATO in 1952 America has taken Greek adherence to the Western camp for granted . There was no justification for such complacency. What we have witnessed in the past month is the eruption of a well-planned coup d'etat plot . At stake are Greece, Turkey, Italy, next in line for conquest, and NATO itself . All that America spent after World War II to block the communist advance in Southeast Europe was on the verge of being wiped out on the weekend of July 18 . Given the explosive nature of Greek temperament and the thoroughness of the ground-paving during the years when America and Western Europe took Greek stability for granted, anything may happen between the date of the writing of these lines and the publication of this report . While the riots agitated by the deposed Prime Minister, Papandreou, shake his country and civil war is spoken of as a possibility, here is the background of the storm into which America's new ambassador, Phillips Talbot, is stepping on Europe's southeastern flank . FIRST, A GLOSSARY OF THE ORGANIZATIONS you may be reading of in the weeks ahead is in order : ASPIDA (Shield) : Communist organization set up by pro-Papandreou Leftists in the Greek Army to prepare a purge of anti-communist officers . ASPIDA is the Greek version of the Soviets, set up by Russian soldiers to judge their officers in 1917 . It also resembles the "Anti-Fascist Committees" formed by French Reds in 1960 to compile files on loyal officers . E . D . A. : Greek Communist Party A. K. E . L. : Cyprus Communist Party. Since ENOSIS (Cyprus independence) and the constitution based on the 1960 Zurich Agreement, A. K. E . L. has been adroitly worked by Moscow as an advance post in the West, and its strength constantly increased . CENTER UNION: Greek majority party which obtained 171 seats in parliament and carried Papandreou into power 17 months ago . Center Union is a misnomer . Liberals, politicians of indefinable political shades and Marxist fellow-travelers make up the rank and file . About 100 deputies are not satisfied with Papandreou . Communists gave him his majority . LAMBRAKIDES and DAN: Crypto-communist organizations, organized for street action . THE PRINCIPAL ACTORS OF THE DRAMA ARE: Greece's 25-year-old monarch, King Constantine, and his loyal Defense Minister, Petros Garoufalias, on one hand . Opposing them : 77-year-old George Papandreou, the ousted Prime Minister, his 47-year-old son, Andrew (Andreas in Greek), a product of Harvard and the era that produced the political and economic whiz boys of our own New Frontier . Villain of the piece and Greece's shadow communist dictator is Andrew Papandreou . FOR HIS BACKGROUND LET US GO BACK TO THE MID-40'S . Young Papandreou was arrested for communist activity after World War II, when Greek Reds, supported by armed bands from Albania, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria, ravaged the country . On the plea of his mother, the Greek police chief agreed to release him, on condition that his family would send him out of the country . Accordingly the young revolutionary was sent to what was already becoming the breeding ground of extreme Left liberalism in the West : Harvard. The philosophy of action which the young Greek assimilated there, in the company of men who have since risen to inner councils in America and elsewhere, may be surnmed up as follows : The military are bad. By nature they are fascist, unless sprung from a people's army . Since their thoughts are against the people, they are insurgents . The most effective counter-insurgency is for the people to eliminate bad military before insurgent thoughts can be interpreted into action . The younger Papandreou took American citizenship, moved on to the University of California as a teacher of economics . In 1963 his father induced him to come home and enter

politics . Andrew became Joint Minister of Economic Co-ordination, under his father's wing introduced the liberal give-away measures which Greece's economy could not sup port but which won him a following . As Andrew's demagogic "planning" gained headway the father became the prisoner of his son and the E . D . A. From 1955 to '63 Greece was governed by the conservative National Radical Union of Mr . Caramanlis . But Caramanlis resigned in protest against the visit of King Paul and Queen Frederika to London in 1963, on grounds that the Cyprus question made it untimely . Elections followed in December, and under the barrage of vicious attacks launched against Caramanlis by the Greek Left, which had been quietly grouping its forces for a comeback, his party received only 40% of the votes and communist support carried the elder Papandreou into power . CYPRUS HAD BECOME A LAND OF ENDLESS CONFLICT . Greeks faced Turks with enmity, and Moscow saw the island as an ideal base for the ultimate assault on Europe . Blowing first hot and then cold, alternately encouraging Cypriot Greek demands for independence and encouraging Turkish cries for firmness, Russia eroded the Turco-Greek Alliance which was the keystone of western defenses in the Balkans . It was in Moscow's interest to prolong the Cyprus quarrel, to oppose attachment of Cyprus to Greece for the moment because an independent Cyprus better serves Russia's interests . Once Greece is communized, Moscow's attitude will change : The powerful Cyprus Communist Party, A. K. E . L ., would merge with E . D. A., the Communist Party on the mainland . Equipped with 32 T-34 tanks supplied by Moscow, and the ground-air missiles, Comar torpedo boats and DC2's already given to Archbishop Makarios, the Cyprus President, Greek Cypriots cut off the 6000 Turks in Lefka from their compatriots in Ambelikou . Washington ignored Ankara's appeals for support, whereupon, early this spring, Moscow dispatched Russia's ace trouble-maker, Podgorny, on a sympathy mission to Ankara. Podgorny was followed on May 17 by Gromyko . Mr . Ichik, Turkey's Minister of Foreign Affairs, declared that Turkey, deceived by her British and American allies, might break her ties with NATO and accept Moscow's support, since Russia was prepared to recognize the validity of the Treaties of Zurich and London regarding the two communities on Cyprus, which both Athens and Makarios considered null and void . On October 4, 1964, the Greek Prime Minister's son announced, "Greece has for a long time been a NATO satellite. She will no longer be anything less than an equal ally, sub ject to orders from no one . " The following month he resigned from the government, giving the impression that the Center Union, as his father's group is officially called, was becoming moderate . Actually it was a maneuver to permit the younger Papandreou to take over the Left-wing of the Center Union and strengthen it by fusion with E. D. A . , the Greek Communist Party. On the heels of Andrew's resignation from the government came a speech from the Secretary-General of E . D . A., praising his judgment . Then the younger Papandreou made an unreported trip to Cyprus to outline a plan of action for A. K. E. L. It was on this trip that he elaborated plans for the communist delegation to Moscow which contacted Brejnev and Kosygin .

Page 2 .

Since the approaching showdown's first test of strength would be with the army, Andrew prepared his counter-force . A law was pushed through by his father which turned control of Greece's labor movement, the Confederation of General Workers (CGT) over to a com munist minority . By another measure most of the 9, 000 communist prisoners remaining in prison for atrocities committed between 1945 and 1949 were liberated. Some 70, 000 communist terrorists who had murdered thousands of Greeks in the post-war communist struggle, and had been receiving "higher education" in Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria ever since, returned home to form the action spearhead of the Andrew Papandreou revolt . On the intellectual front an ambitious project, also sponsored by the Papandreou father and son team, took shape, to create a "truly international university" in the western coastal city of Patras . In late 1964 a conference attended by thirty leading scientists from all over the world met to draw up plans for Greece's new tri-lingual ( Greek, English and French) center of learning, which GreekLeftists planned to make the intellectual Mecca of the underdeveloped countries .

Page 3 . The Minister of the Interior, while all this was going on, was a distinguished World War II officer and patriot named Admiral John Toumbas . Already Toumbas' desk was littered with alarming reports on the formation of two Marxist action organizations, the "Lambrakides", named after a Left-wing deputy who died in an "accident" after a clash with the police in Salonika, and "Dan", officered by former terrorists and loyal to the Papandreous . The politician setting up Lambrakides units was a deputy with known communist leanings named Theodorakis (known abroad as a song-writer and composer of the music for the film "Zorba the Greek"). When the Admiral moved to suppress the two organizations, Papandreou dismissed him, and put in his place the former treasurer of the communist movement, Tsirimokos . With the Ministry of the Interior, which is to say the police, under Andrew Papandreou's control, the movement to remove loyal officers and officials from key positions got under way . Ambassadors to London, Paris and Washington were relieved of their posts . But care was taken not to precipitate a nationalist move to save the nation and the throne . Caution was the watchword : A slow slide to the Left through gradual elimination of loyal nationalists and repeal of measures taken against the communists in 1949 was the plan, not violent revolution . With Admiral Toumbas out of the Ministry of the Interior, only the War Ministry remained in the plotters' way . On April 29, 1965, with his hands strengthened by communist participation in his popular front, Andrew Papandreou came back into the government . By this time he was a communist dictator, governing the country through his father in all but name, and holding at his disposal a national fifth column . It was Balkan intrigue at its most sensitive sore-spot: The fertile field of Greece's hereditary hatred of the Turk . If the climate was ideal for Moscow's game, it was no less so for the 47-year-old "economic co-ordinator" from Harvard. Quietly a Red organization called ASPIDA (Shield) was set up in the army to report on "fascist" officers and to prepare for the drive to take Greece out of NATO .

THE FIRST BREAKDOWN IN THE PLOT CAME IN SALONIKA, Greece's second largest city, in early June, when a soldier was caught pouring sugar into the gas tank of an army truck. Security officers of the War Ministry launched a wide-scale investigation and learned to their dismay that the same sort of sabotage had been discovered in an artillery unit posted on the Turkish border . The deeper army officials dug, the more obvious it became that the two acts were not unrelated, that a widespread plot was afoot to cause incidents which, exposed at the right moment by the Greek Left, would undermine confidence in the army and justify Papandreou's call for a purge . As the investigation progressed, word leaked out to the Papandreous through intelligence officers on their team that a War Ministry crackdown was imminent . On Friday night, June 11, Papandreou called members of the government for a meeting in his home, while Athens police by the hundreds, under orders from the Defense Ministry, began rounding up suspects who had come to light during the investigation of ASPIDA's role as a Com munist front in the army . Exposure of ASPIDA had resulted in four arrests and the resignation of three high-ranking intelligence officers . Among those taken in on the night of June 11 were eleven Lambrakides members . The Defense Ministry announced that it had broken up a communist plot . Papandreou and the Left came back with the cry that "fascist" officers were cooking up a plot in the army, and, fitting his actions to his words, Papandreou pere summarily dismissed the Defense Minister . Garoufalias refused to step down and called on the king to back him up . While the storm mounted, General Grivas, hero of the Cyprus fight for independence, came onto the scene and announced in the leading paper of Athens (the KATHIMEERINI) that Andrew Papandreou was the leader of ASPIDA, that ASPIDA had been infiltrated by his own men (Grivas') in Cyprus, on his orders, and that they would testify that ASPIDA was a clandestine communist organization preparing to eliminate loyal officers from the army and seize power . Already, Grivas stated, communists had sabotaged a unit of Greek artillery. This brings us up to the clash . TO PAPANDREOU'S SURPRISE THE BOY KING REACTED LIKE A MAN . Constantine refused to dismiss his Minister of Defense, on grounds that the army must be kept out of

Page 4 . politics . Papandreou, pushed by his son, decided to stir up the people . A violent press campaign was launched, demanding the departure of the War Minister and General Yen nimatas . The young king temporized . He would ask Mr . Garoufalias to resign, on condition that the Prime Minister would not take over the Defense Ministry : Such a step would have been shocking, since Papandreou's own son had been named as head of the subversive movement in the army which was under investigation . Papandreou screamed to heaven that the king was overstepping his role as sovereign and attempting to rule instead of reign, trying to tell the Prime Minister whom he could appoint to the government . If Constantine would sacrifice Garoufalias, Papandreou promised to take measures to stop the violent press campaign which he himself had set in mo tion . If he would not, the old Liberal threatened to cause a constitutional crisis . As it became evident that the Papandreou clan intended to go over the head of the young king and appeal directly to the mob, Constantine called in 48-year-old Constantine Hoidas, a member of the Council of State and professor of constitutional law, for advice . On the professor's assurance that he was within his rights, in a lightning move he accepted his defiant Prime Minister's threat to resign and appointed Athanasiades-Novas, a man from the Center-Right of Papandreou's own party, to succeed him. Back with Novas came Admiral Toumbas to the Interior Ministry . THEN THE CALL FOR DEMONSTRATIONS STARTED. "The situation is palace is fostering a plot", Papandreou telephoned a henchman in Paris . note the escalation toward civil war started in principal cities across the first force called into the streets was Greece's left-wing labor union, the of General Workers (CGT) . grave . The And on that country . The Confederation

On Saturday morning, July 17, events were following the conventional communist coup d'etat pattern. The government fought to defend itself . The arrest of Colonel Anagostopoulous, the assistant director of intelligence, for tapping the telephone lines of ministers marked by Papandreou for destruction, was answered by cries of "Down with the fascists!" Instead of a stabilizing force, attempting to restore order, the armed forces were pictured as murderous supporters of the fascist traitors . In a monster meeting at Panathinaikos Stadium the army of the revolutionists, Greece's labor unions acting as storm troopers for fascism-of-the-Left, swung into action . Riots, blood and hate-spewing calls for more violence ensued . When Sotirios Petroulas, a 25-year-old student, on file in the Athens Security Office as an active communist, was asphyxiated by tear gas, the mob had a "victim" and funeral to provide a polarization point for a bigger mob and more violence . Such are the salient points of "Who? How? Where? When? and Why? " against which the reader can measure all news out of Greece in the days ahead. What is afoot is a wellplanned communist revolution, brought into the open by government realization of what was happening. If it is successful, a contraction of the free world will have taken place while America (described by Dean Acheson as "the engine of mankind, and the rest of the world is the train") was hanging on Averell Harriman's trip to Moscow . Mastermind of the plot, for such pride as it may afford, is, as we have pointed out, a Harvardeducated Greek Communist who, for as long as it suited his purpose, was an American citizen. Under his economic planning and political action Greek Reds have turned the clock back to December 1944, when the civil war they lost was started . NOW BACK TO VIETNAM: On July 16 Albert Pham ngoc Thao, on whose head the Saigon government had placed a three million piastre reward, was captured in the heavily com munist-infiltrated Bien Hoa area, seven miles from Saigon . For Thao's communist back-, ground, atrocities, duplicities, intentions, fawning praise by the American press and an idea of who was backing him in his plot to seize power and turn South Vietnam into a Marxist state, see H. du B . Reports of Sept . and Oct . , 1964, Jan. , March and April, 1965 . A laconic AP report out of Saigon on July 18 announced that Thao had died of wounds while being transported to Saigon aboard a helicopter . (American?) The principal detail emphasized in American papers was, as usual, that Thao was a Catholic, a form of spotless bill of health which, if pursued no further, exonerates anyone connected with his December, 1964 disappearance from Washington, and concealment between two coup d'etat attempts since then, from charges of being involved in some very embarrassing business .

Page 5 . With Thao dead in transit, chances of court disclosures as a source of public information are out . TIME Magazine, one of Thao's greatest ballyhooers during the honeymoon per iod with Diem, did not mention Thao the following week at all. NEWSWEEK, having the inside track on a good story, published such excerpts as somebody saw fit from a letter which Thao had written to NEWSWEEK'S Pentagon correspondent . Lloyd H. Norman, whose friendship to a man of Thao's particular talents and leanings was understandably important . A "passionately patriotic Catholic" is the way NEWSWEEK described Ho chi Minh's persuasive former Intelligence Chief. "The Americans originally fought me tooth and nail, but afterwards realized that I was right", wrote Thao (which is what we have always thought!) . A socialist South Vietnam, Thao explained, was his aim. "One ought not fear the socialistic or leftist tendency of these new men", Thao told his sympathetic contact in Washington, through whom he figured his letter would reach policy-deciding eyes . "If the U . S . supports them (Thao's 'new men') sincerely, they will reject the communist camp . . . It is essential that the Americans support a socialist or almost socialist program." (Where have we heard this line before? --Aside from Joseph Buttinger's use of the same argument in support of Ho chi Minh (THE NEW LEADER, June 27, 1955) .) Thao further does his best for Ho chi Minh by putting up an argument for halting bombings in North Vietnam, then he substantiates another of our convictions, long pooh-poohed by "all knowledgeable people in Washington" . "Do not believe that I work alone in Vietnam. Our group is very strong . If it does not triumph now it will triumph later . . . We are not communists . We are nationalists, but also socialists . . . I am confident that in the end we will triumph and with the aid of the Americans, including CIA. " (It would be interesting to know if Pham ngoc Thao and Bobby Kennedy ever met during Thao's stay in Washington, since their arguments against bombing North Vietnam are identical . ) ONE OF THE MOST TRULY ILLUMINATING PAGES ON PHAM NGOC THAO and one which it is doubtful that any American with NEWSWEEK-type feelings on our South Vietnam errors will bother to read may be found in a book written by Southeast Asia authority Jean Lacoutre, "Le Vietnam Entre Deux Guerres" (Editions du Seuil, Paris . 267 pages, $3 . 25), published in May, 1965 . On P. 175, Lecoutre tells how in September of 1946 he spent some time with the Vietminh underground. "Received by the Central Committee, " he wrote, "I was able to see for myself how diversified the directing team was, made up of Communists of Catholic origin such as Pham ngoc Thuan ( Thao's father), the nationalist Nguyen Binh, who was principal military chief of the organization, and Huynh phu So, the famous "mad monk", leader of the Hoa Hao (who was assassinated, probably on order of the Vietminh, a month later) and a priest communist named Ung van Khiem, who later became North Vietnam's Minister of Foreign Affairs ." From the above it should be obvious that a wide gap exists between the Catholicism of the Pham ngoc family and, say, America's Dean Manion . The white-washing line that the late colonel was a Catholic, repeated in the American press like a litany, is therefore meaningless if not an intended deception. But let us continue . "Eighteen years later, in Pnom Penh, " writes Lacoutre, "I ran onto the same Pham ngoc Thuan who had welcomed me in the Plain of Junks . He had become ambassador to East Germany, then President of the Committee of Cultural Relations Abroad . It was in the latter capacity that he took a group of folk lore dancers to Cambodia . "As we talked he outlined before me the interesting parallel between the methods of the 'We were awkward primitives . We tried to Vietminh in 1948 and the Vietcong in 1964 . oppose the colonialists and their Vietnamese allies by setting up a counter-state with its own administration, its money and its system of education. Wherever they have been able to, our successors, who have made great progress and profited by our experiences and setbacks, have taken another course . They have insinuated themselves as far as possible into the existing state, to utilize it . Instead of systematically defying legality, they prefer to make use of it as a means of eventually substituting another . To put it more simply, we used to cut a road in order to wreck a bus; they prefer to board the bus.' 11

Page 6 . What more realistic description of Pham ngoc Thao's activity over the past eleven years can one ask than this frank speech from his own father? An associate of Pham ngoc Thuan (the following page of the same book) went on to tell Lacoutre how the Vietcong is now working through co-operative organizations in the South, since these are not too committed politically. They are open and very educational, and they will assure the communists of the fidelity of the base of the country "when neutralization gives us a double foreign aid: American aid which will not corrupt us as it has in Laos, and aid derived from control of commercial channels and the disposal of funds provided for economic assistance, even though at the top we have a government that is partially bourgeois ."

BACKGROUND TO BETRAYAL - The Tragecy of Vietnam, by Hilaire du Berrier, may be ordered through H . du B . Reports (paperback edition) or direct from WESTERN ISLANDS, 395 Concord Avenue, Belmont 78, Massachusetts ; $1 . 00 for the paperback edition and $4 . 00 for the hard cover . (Enclose 10 cents for postage) .

Address all domestic business correspondence to H. du B . Reports, Box 855, Huntington, Indiana ; address all foreign business correspondence to Hilaire du Berrier, Hotel Lutetia, 43 Blvd . Raspail, Paris VI, France .

Subscription price: $10 per year . Extra copies of this newsletter 20~ each to regular subscribers ; rates on large quantities given on request .

Hilaire du Berrier, Correspondent Jennie Edmonds, Managing Editor

VOLUME VIII, LETTER 5 SEPTEMBE R, 1965

FOREIGN AFFAIRS LETTER

H.

du B. REPORTS

THE SCENE IS VIETNAM, where Roosevelt made "liberation" from colonialism his goal . Twenty years of misery and prospects of indefinite slavery were the results for Asiatics, war and the prospect of moral bankruptcy for America . America is now bogged down in a morass created by Roosevelt, Truman and the team that under them entrenched itself in power . The parents of today were apathetic while this was happening . Now for Amer ica there is no choice but to win. Against the dictates of MacArthur's "There is no substitute for victory", all talk is of negotiation. Max Frankel (New York Times, March 14, 1965) informed the world, "Johnson's foreign policy (is) negotiations, new style . . . . The principals have actually begun to negotiate, intensely and even publicly . " In the magazine section of the same paper seven history, international affairs and law professors at Columbia University opposed military meas ures in Vietnam. Roger Hillsman, formerly Assistant Secretary of State, now a Columbia professor, supported them, saying America could not bluff and should not bomb the North. On April 7 LBJ dangled before the Vietcong his offer of a billion dollar Marshall Plan for the Mekong Delta, in which Hanoi would have a share, if her leaders would negotiate . Up came Frankel again with praise for the President's "personal desire to yield to and appeal to world opinion" . Mike Mansfield, who with his favorite, Frank Valio, helped to get us into this mess, came out for neutralism, i. e . , surrender . On June 28 Adlai Stevenson comforted the Vietcong by stating that the UN is against our bombings . London's SUNDAY TIMES, on July 18, told Europe (and Ho chi Minh) that Averell Harriman had gone to Moscow "to try to enlist Soviet support for some kind of negotiations over Vietnam" . "The U . S . must play for a draw and not to win", pontificated the London FINANCIAL TIMES. On August 1 the SUNDAY TIMES announced that "the President is ready to discuss even the Hanoi terms", while its sister paper, THE OBSERVER, called for "American withdrawal and genuine neutralization of a unified Vietnam" . Ghana, India and Yugoslavia had teams in Peking, offering American concessions, while Martin Luther King (whose sex orgy in Stockholm on the eve of the Nobel Peace Prize award made him no emissary for polite society) prepared to open his own negotiations with Ho chi Minh . Long overdue is an honest report to the American public on what negotiation means in North Vietnam, since Patrick Donovan, the London OBSERVER 's man in Washington (and Goldwater assassin of 1964) proclaimed on August 1 that "LBJ's aim is (the) green baize table -- not victory" . ON NOVEMBER 20, 1953, GENERAL HENRI NAVARRE, French commander in Indo-China, learned that his government was about to participate in a Berlin conference for the setting up of Geneva talks on Indo-China . "Do not mention negotiations", begged Navarre . "To make a premature announcement of willingness to negotiate will only spur the enemy on and compromise the chances of any plan you may have . " Against his advice Paris announced that the conference in Berlin would open on January 25, 1954 . Overnight the war in Indo-China changed . French troops had been installed at Dien Bien Phu to block an anticipated Communist drive against Laos . Red General Giap dropped his Laos plans and, with Chinese support, threw everything he had against the Europeans in Dien Bien Phu, so that he might appear as a victor in Geneva . Navarre said later, of his government, "Had they possessed any understanding of revolutionary war, had they not failed to foresee the adroit propaganda that would be made of the least sign of diplomatic weakness, they would have taken the precaution of sending all possible reinforcements to Indo-China before accepting the invitation to negotiate, to show that unless the enemy made adequate concessions also we would continue to fight. " Instead, Paris was over-anxious to talk .

Page 2 . On February 18, 1954, it was announced that a conference would open in Geneva on April 26 to settle the war in Indo-China . The Vietminh moved immediately . On February 20 Ho chi Minh's Central Committee gave General Giap the green light: At any cost, Dien Bien Phu must be taken. The shock of its fall would shake the West and permit the Viet minh to dominate the conference table . The overrunning of Dien Bien Phu at a psychological moment -- the day before Indo-China was to be taken up at the conference table -became a necessity for the Reds, the moment it became known that a conference was in the works . It was estimated that the West's admission of weakness cost the French Army 100, 936 men -- killed, wounded and missing -- between January 1, 1954, and May 11, 1954 . Giap sacrificed the bulk of his army and all of his elite for a victory to exploit at Geneva . He could not have continued the war if he had wanted to -- but he won his gamble . Eleven years later America repeated the French mistake . But in 1965 Ho chi Minh's Central Committee's theoreticians, always searching for "the correct solution", reason that America is over-anxious . There must be a weakness somewhere . The teach-ins, the demonstrations, the letters to the press and harassment of widows of men killed in Vietnam: What can these be but proof that a revolution is rumbling beneath Johnson's feet? If America wants the green baize table -- then it must be in Ho chi Minh's best interests to fight . How many thousands of boys were killed in the past four months of ne gotiations chatter we may never know . Suffice to say, all experienced Indo-China analysts consider it a blunder, only explainable by the necessity of Johnson's placating his defeatist and communist-appeasing electors while trying to give no ammunition to those who never wanted him. The explanation does not inspire confidence in America. WHAT OF THE MEN WITH WHOM AMERICA WOULD NEGOTIATE? An illuminating picture of the leaders who would sit across from us at the green baize table which is our proclaimed goal is to be found in Lucien Bodard's authoritative book, "La Guerre D'IndoChine--L'Enlisement" . Here the guile with which Ho chi Minh signed a treaty with Monsieur Jean Sainteny in the spring of 1946 is spread before our eyes . Sainteny was a liberal of the Fulbright school, a champion of the under-dog and a worshipper of de Gaulle . He it was who was sent to Indo-China as High Commissioner, to treat with Ho chi Minh, whom America's General Philip Gallagher had bolstered against the French just as Mao Tse-tung is backing him against us today. "Ho chi Minh assumed the face of a benevolent wise man", wrote Bodard . He caressed little children, spent hour after hour with Sainteny . And Sainteny was taken in . All the previous emissaries whom Ho had tracked down and massacred were forgotten. In a burst of good will Ho invited French troops to move north, to Haiphong and Hanoi . It was Sainteny's first experience with "the correct solution", the acceptance of an evil to destroy a greater one . Not until it was too late did Sainteny perceive that Ho had only used the French to ru n the Chinese troops out of Indo-China . "Sainteny had no conception of hatred as preached by Mao Tse-tung and adopted as a doctrine by Ho chi Minh", Bodard continued. "Evil, according to the Mao-Ho cult, is a metaphysical abomination of which the supreme form is imperialism. Anything pertaining to the Whites can never be despised, punished, driven out sufficiently . Yellow Communismis the implacable revenge of egotism. It necessitated the invention of a new form of xenophobia . Spontaneous hatred was not enough ; one had to learn to hate, educate oneself to hate, educate the masses, day after day, hour after hour, with an in finite meticulousness of hatred . The people as a whole must live in a collective tension of vengeance, with no other sentiment . " These were the people with whom Sainteny, the man who thought like Mike Mansfield, was sure he could reason .

"With infinite art Ho chi Minh succeeded in selling the picture of 'Uncle Ho', the kindly wrote old gentleman with the traditional appearance of a sage but with a soul of fire", 1946, writing in America in R . Isaacs gave to the picture Harold Bodard . (In sum, Newsweek and Harper's Magazine .)

Page 3. "Inveterate Asiatic Communists succeeded in making most of the world think they were not Communists and that therefore they should be given anything they wished . Unfortunately, around the green-topped tables of Dalat and Fontainebleau, French negotiators quickly perceived that the words they used -- liberty, democracy, association -- had exactly op posite meanings . The French saw in them the formation of a humanist, socialist Vietnamese state, tied to a France that would no longer dominate Not yet independence but union. "The Vietminh wanted a Red Vietnam based on what they called the democratic dictatorship of the people' . " Again a fatuous West had grasped at the myth of a non-Communist Left in what was really only a fight for power between Fulbrightism and Maoism, but which against traditional society formed a solid front. "United Vietnam" was on every body's lips . Bodard's description of Ho's patient efforts to lull his enemies through personal charm while his lieutenants attacked should be translated into simple English for LBJ . "Ho chi Minh never gave lip trying to move French public opinion against its government ; on the contrary, he took up his staff and became a pilgrim . . . . He crossed the ocean to proclaim his love for the French people. It was a monster campaign of hoax and persuasion . The former cabin boy of the D'Artagnan appealed to French women and children . With touching words he talked of his love of peace . He repeated over and over to French mothers that their sons must not die needlessly in rice paddies . "During his crusade Ho chi Minh was received by the government, almost with honors due a sovereign. In a car escorted by motorcycle policemen he rode up Champs Elysees to place a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier . Still the nation refused to yield . Then it was that Ho chi Minh suddenly signed a compromise one night -- a 'gentleman's agreement' -- which settled nothing but appeared to avert open war . " The agreement lulled his enemies while he prepared their massacre . Sainteny, Ho chi Minh's dupe, became his defender . "Ho chi Minh is staking his prestige on an audacious initiative to avert loss of lives", cried Sainteny . "His own Vietminh, the extremists, are against him; therefore, he must be trusted, supported and strengthened . " Change the names in Bodard's book from French to American and we have a picture of what is happening today. "A hecatomb for Europeans, a general massacre, everywhere, starting in Hanoi and Haiphong, was what Ho had in mind . Through the fall of 1946 his preparations continued while Sainteny fought for 'peace' by preventing military commanders from taking security measures . Never for a minute did Sainteny see Ho chi Minh as the implacable enemy he was . Ho was his ally in keeping the peace, a reasonable man trying to restrain 'fanatics', the war-mongers who were partisans of his gen erals . Sainteny and Ho were friends . Every day they saw each other . They acted as though they were fighters in the same cause. Neither pretended to desert his camp ; they were loyal opponents, 'explaining' their views in order to avoid a catastrophe . " Sainteny preened himself on the service he was rendering humanity by becoming the friend and intimate of Ho . "December came, and Sainteny still believed in Ho, though it was no longer possible to ignore the preparations that were taking place . Still the military were prevented from strik ing the evil at its source . They were ordered to accept insults, menaces, any sort of provocation, even the wounding and kidnapping of their men, lest they hurt Sainteny's talks and bring about the irreparable . " On December 17, 1946, Sainteny received another warm letter from his friend . They were going to renew negotiations ; everything was going to be all right. "In reality, the most frightful trap of our times was being set with a meticulous eye to detail ." Only vague accounts of what happened ever reached the electors of FDR, who had set Ho chi Minh up in business . Two days after Sainteny received his soothing letter, on the night of December 19, Vietminh terrorists by the tens of thousands erupted out of the night. "Soldiers, red political commissars, guerillas, militia; men, women and children formed into shock troops,

Page 4 . launched a wave of mass assassination. An assault that was hysterical in its savagery, but also systematic murder, carried out in conformity with battle orders prepared weeks in advance and covering hundreds of pages of finely written script . Street by street, house by house, every step was foreseen for the extermination of the white population of Indo-China in a wave of horror ." Sainteny himself, Ho chi Minh's "friend", was wounded. "All Ho's initiatives", Bodard points out, "had only one end in view : the enlarging of his monstrous trap . How could Sainteny or anyone forget that for an Asiatic Communist such as Ho, such as Mao Tsetung, human lives are of no importance, nor the methods employed, nor anything else . The triumph of the cause demands any action, permits anything . " So much for the people with whom Martin Luther King and Arthur Goldberg would negotiate .

THE ROAD TO HANOI AND PEKING was taken in July by Mr . Harold Davies, an emissary of the British Prime Minister whose rise to power was so assiduously desired by the American Left . Harold Wilson, the Prime Minister, for all that Britain is supposed to be committed to support of American policy in Vietnam, had tried to sponsor a "Commonwealth Peace Mission to Vietnam" . Neither Peking nor Hanoi would have any of it . So out of obscurity came chubby Welshman Harold Davies, the long-time Communist sympathizer in the government our press and leaders wanted for Britain. Ho chi Minh could hardly refuse to see him, for it must be remembered that Davies is no backbencher but a member of the Wilson government . Back in the thirties we find him a propagandist in Britain's extreme Left, running adult education courses in Staffordshire, assisted by a man named George Wigg . Wigg led Davies into politics and got him a Labor seat in the House of Commons, representing Leek . They went to London together, and in 1945 they were sharing a flat with another member of the Staffordshire adult education team, Stephen Swingler . Labor put Swingler in Parliament also . Thereafter he and Davies headed the original "Keep Left" group so important in Britain's "Victory for Socialism" movement . In 1954 he trekked to Indo-China to help Ho chi Minh . British opposition to any American air action to save the French at Dien Bien Phu was kept at fever pitch by Davies . In 1957 British Labor gave ground and accepted America's hydrogen bomb as the keystone of British defense, but not Davies . He remained adamantly hostile . That same year he returned to Hanoi as fro chi Minh's guest where he prepared an article on "Twelve Years of Vietnam History" (Vietminh version) for the December issue of a French Communist monthly called HORIZON, edited by the former Communist Air Minister, Pierre Cot, and translated into thirteen languages . (HORIZON had an American correspondent named Thomas Buchanan who later wrote a book exonerating the American Left of guilt in the Kennedy assassination .) In 1961 Davies wrote a pamphlet denouncing "the ruthless intervention of the U. S . in Laos" in which he stated, "The progress of Asian man has been warped to serve the Cold War and arid capitalistic foreign policies ." Today George Wigg, Davies' old fellow- indoctrinator of adults and political mentor, is one of the closest friends and advisors of the Prime Minister . Buddy-buddy with both Wigg and Davies, and hence enjoying a pipeline straight to 10 Downing Street, are two North Vietnamese "journalists" working on a London weekly . Another collaborator of Davies and Wigg is Lord Bertrand Russell, whose "Peace Foundation" has invited Nguyen van Hieu, the foreign affairs spokesman of the Red-dominated National Liberation Front (FNL) currently killing Americans, to come to Britain and "explain the Vietcong case" . What sending a man with Davies' known sentiments and record to Hanoi means is : This is the Labor Government's first giant step in the break with what, since the war, has been a pro-American policy . IN MID-JULY DE GAULLE SENT HIS MAN ON THE DAVIES CIRCUIT . On July 3 de Gaulle had told Sukarno, according to the latter, that North Vietnam would win the war against America. Eight days later a diplomatic courier brought de Gaulle a secret report from France's ambassador to the Vatican . It covered in detail all the attempts at

Page 5 . mediating the American-North Vietnam dispute to date . To spare the French President's eyes this detailed report was reduced to what his assistants regarded as essential, and the contents read to him. Tito's advances, backed by Shastri, Nasser's feelers, N'Krumah's fishing in troubled waters, Harriman's snub by Kosygin, Algeria's efforts to ac quire importance, and U Thant's -- they were all there . The only serious rival for France was Davies, Britain's Red . De Gaulle's card in the game for top place as "friend of the power of tomorrow and rejector of the ally of yesterday" was Andre' Malraux. Some Frenchmen saw the choice as a build-up of Malraux as de Gaulle's heir . ANDRE MALRAUX, DE GAULLE'S MINISTER OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS, is 65 . There is no record of his having studied at any institute of higher learning, nor even in the course offered by the Louvre . In 1923, accompanied by his Polish wife, daughter of an antique dealer, and a friend named Chevasson, Malraux, then 22, went to Indo-China . On the night of December 24, 1923, the two young men were arrested with seven bas reliefs, hacked from a Khmer temple by a pick and a metal saw, concealed in their luggage . While the two awaited trial, Malraux's wife returned to Paris to hide anything likely to be seized by the police, according to a 430 age book by Professor Andre VanOn July 21, 1924, degans of Belgium. ( La Jeunesse Litteraire d'Andre Malraux) . Malraux was sentenced to three years in prison . The case was appealed and another sentence, never formally sustained, gave him a year and a half suspended sentence on October 28 . Actually, the original three-year sentence for archeological burglary and vandalism still stands unserved . At 6 A. M. on November 1, 1924, Malraux quit Indo-China for Canton, where he became propaganda commissar for the Russian-directed Kuomintang . TIME Magazine of August 13, 1965, credits him with being "too individualistic ever to join the party" and having become "disillusioned with Communism at the time of the Nazi-Soviet Pact" . The Paris diplomatic weekly, AUX ECOUTES (August 5, 1965), better informed, states that Malraux was never a member of either the French or Spanish Communist Party but that he was a member of the Chinese and as such participated in street fighting in Canton and Shanghai in his early days with the Kuomintang . It was as a former party member and fighter in the insurrection, according to AUX ECOUTES, that Malraux was assigned to bear de Gaulle's letter to his old comrade in revolution, Mao Tse-tung . In 1925 Malraux returned briefly to Indo-China as a Kuomintang agent and set up a Comunist daily called L'INDOCHINE, which folded two months later . Malraux then organized a Communist movement called "Jeune Annam", openly treasonable . He stated in a letter of October 2, 1933, to Edmund Wilson (author of "The Shores of Light") that he was made Kuomintang commissar for Indo-China . Then back to Canton and eventually to Europe via the Middle East . In 1936 Malraux was in Britain with Ilya Ehrenburg to attend a meeting of the Red "International Association of Writers" . In late 1936 he was leading a bomber squadron for the Spanish Reds . Then came World War II and his period as "Colonel Berger" in the Communist underground . Friends sug"Malraux? " de Gaulle exclaimed. "He's a gested that he and de Gaulle get together . Communist!" (Stalin was snubbing de Gaulle at the time . ) "De Gaulle? " Malraux re torted . "He's a fascist!" Today Malraux sits at de Gaulle's right in daily Council meetings, often carrying on a low conversation with "the leader" while Foreign Minister Couve de Murville reads a report . April, 1961, brought the revolt of the generals in Algiers . The population of Paris was called upon by Malraux and Prime Minister Debre to rise, to flock to points where par achutists might land and with their bodies bar the way. The Communist machine sprang into action . Cars with loud speakers criss-crossed the Red belt around Paris, mobilizing shock troops . Malraux harangued the "volunteers" at the Ministry of the Interior, told them where to go to get arms . Manifestoes appeared calling "Workers, democrats, arise en masse; stay mobilized . Insist that the government give you arms ." Two months later, according to Arthur Schlesinger, on the eve of her departure for Paris, Jacl-,ie Kennedy confided to Madame Alphand, wife of the French ambassador, that her sole desire was to meet Andre Malraux. Thus, "fresh from a fascinating day with Malraux. . . 'Jackie) glittered in a Givenchy gown at the state dinner in the Hall of Mirrors in Versailles . 11 On May 11, 1962, Malraux was given his state dinner at the White House,

Page 6 . "filled with writers, dancers, musicians, actors and actresses" for the occasion . "HOW DO YOU SUM UP THE MALRAUX TRIP TO PEKING? " A prominent Frenchman, asked this question, answered, "He was the logical liaison man between his two heroes, Mao and de Gaulle . It was de Gaulle's idea . An invitation to visit Peking will help in the December election . Refusing planes to America and selling them to Cambodia was first 'payment' on the invitation . De Gaulle knows that nothing he can do will change events in Vietnam, and that American withdrawal would only extend the war, but he wishes to appear as a man of peace . If the Peking invitation doesn't come through, the Malraux trip will still have served a purpose . It will have irritated America and the new team in the Kremlin, who annoyed de Gaulle by withdrawing his old 'friend' Vinogradov and sending the German Affairs Staff of the Soviet Foreign Ministry to Paris . It will also put pressure on the Russians not to go along with the Americans on any nuclear disarmament scheme without de Gaulle . "Of course, the greatest gift for de Gaulle", the French analyst continued, "was George Ball's announcement, before leaving for Paris, that America would welcome his efforts toward peace in Vietnam. It assured the anxious French electorate that everything is fine between de Gaulle and America -- in fact, that America is looking for peace to come through Paris ." So much for "negotiations" as an acknowledged end in itself, the men with whom we would negotiate, and the mediators in whose hands Britain, France, and no doubt no few of our senators and intellectuals, would place America's future .

BACKGROUND TO BETRAYAL - The Tragedy of Vietnam, by Hilaire du Berrier, may be ordered through H. du B . Reports (paperback edition) or direct from WESTERN ISLANDS, 395 Concord Avenue, Belmont 78, Massachusetts ; $1 . 00 for the paperback edition and $4 . 00 for the hard cover . (Enclose 10 cents for postage) .

* LA GUERRE D'INDO-CHINE, L'Enlisement, by Lucien Bodard, 457 pages (in French), published by Gallimard . $4 . 00, postpaid . LA GUERRE D'INDO-CHINE, L'Humiliation, by Lucien Bodard, 603 pages (in French), published by Gallimard . $6 . 00, postpaid . As a courtesy service, H. du B. Reports will accept orders for these books from subscribers .

Address all domestic business correspondence to H .du B. Reports, Box 855, Huntington, Indiana ; address all foreign business correspondence to Hilaire du Berrier, Hotel Lutetia, 43 Blvd . Raspail, Paris VI, France . Subscription price : $10 per year . Extra copies of this newsletter 20~ each to regular subscribers ; rates on large quantities given on request . Hilaire du Berrier, Correspondent Jennie Edmonds, Managing Editor

VOLUME VIII, LETTER 6 OCTOBER, 1965

FOREIGN AFFAIRS LETTER

H. du B. REPORTS

PARIS, FRANCE

IN KASHMIR THE OPEN FIGHTING HAS STOPPED . The cease-fire is hailed as a triumph for Arthur Goldberg, the former- labor lawyer, ex-Supreme Court Justice representing America in the UN . But the causes of the conflict remain . When Britain was rushed into granting independence in 1947 there were 562 states in India, comprising over 500 million polyglot people . Over 150 million were Moslem . More than half a million Indians were killed in the rioting that accompanied premature independence . This was to have been expected . Roosevelt said at Teheran that "he would like to talk with Marshal Stalin on the question of India ; that he felt that the best solution would be reform from the bottom, somewhat along the Soviet line" . Stalin replied that "reform from the bottom would mean revolution" . (The Bohlen minutes, Cairo-Teheran Papers)

INDONESIA: Torn with revolt and plagued with misery . Singapore, under Prime Minister Lee Kuan-yew, the one-time communist law student of Cambridge, is moving into the enemy camp . A stock-taking is in order . There is no indication that Indonesia, Singapore, Kashmir or any of the other powder-kegs of decolonization have taught America's pressure groups and policy-forming foundations a thing . They are still working for more of the same : a decolonized world -- FDR's Great Society .

In the revolution which was Roosevelt's war aim, each Indian state was to choose between India and Pakistan . "A man who had never been to India before, who has never been there since, decided how India should be divided during seven weeks in July and August, 1947", stated the SUNDAY TIMES (London) of September 12, 1965 . This man was Lord Radcliffe (remembered as chairman of the tribunal that tried Vassal, the homosexual who spied for Russia) . When the Moslem Nawab of Junagadh acceded to Pakistan on August 20, 1947, Nehru sent an army to run him out and seize his country on grounds that the majority of the subjects were Hindu . Hyderabad, a Hindu country under a Moslem Nizzam, Nehru took by force in the same manner in November, 1948, under the same pretext . (LIFE Magazine hailed it, "Democracy Comes to Hyderabad") . No one doubted that Kashmir would join Pakistan . British authorities estimate that Mos lems outnumbered Hindus 96 to 4 . On the throne was a Hindu playboy lah, Sir Hari Singh; Britain had sold Kashmir to his Hindu ancestor for 500, 000 pounds sterling in the game of divide and rule, a hundred years before . Nehru, blown into heroic stature by the liberal press, wanted it both ways . On the demand of Hari Singh, Nehru grabbed Moslem Kashmir also . On November 2, 1947, he broadcast the promise he was to make over and over again, that once order was estab lished a referendum would be held in Kashmir . The promise was never kept . Nehru had no intention of keeping it . Pakistan waited almost 18 years, then forced the issue . To give Kashmir to India was too blatant an injustice even for LBJ . Accordingly, since Russia and America were in accord, a cease-fire was successfully imposed and the Pakistan-India dispute was turned over to UN . What are the chances of a just settlement? Almost nil . The head of UN is a Burmese whose own country is holding at least eight subject peoples against their will . Other Afro-Asiatic nations have captive minorities waiting only for a precedent . Roosevelt visualized no escape hatch for "colonialism of the decolonized" . India says she will never give up Kashmir . Look for a LIFE Magazine headline, "Democracy Comes to Kashmir" . Military aggression, if the strident elements in UN are for it, is "de mocracy" . This takes the aggressor out of the defendant's box and makes him a plaintiff against society. Now bitterness has increased. While Goldberg fiddles the fuse burns . What sort of consensus can we expect from the grab-bag that sent Indians and Swedes into Katanga? Fifty-nine voracious new nations created since 1945 assure a majority for the worst possible solution . Maneuvered by Moscow or Peking, or both, and with a Burmese "colonialist" for a spokesman, the vote is expected to be for partition . The solution will satisfy neither side . Agitation for reunification will keep the feud alive .

Page 2. MAO TSE-TUNG'S STRATEGY . as European spe cialists see it, is to keep trouble spots in Asia as uncertain and explosive as possible . To bring America in deeper and deeper, preventing America the while from taking truly effective action . To keep America sending more and more men into more operation theaters, as widely dispersed as possible . Augmentation of American forces will in turn be used to inflame native populations using UN as an amplifier . Mao is betting that America will eventually give up, no matter how spectacular her military victories . In that event, the specialists see Mao's triumphant sword-rattlers automatically taking over native communist parties around the world. Communist world unity will be re-established under Peking, and Asia's hordes will dictate to the West, beginning with America . AMERICA'S INTENTIONS APPEAR UNCERTAIN . The Johnson-Goldberg team can make America leader of a united West and face Russia as such ; or, go in business with Moscow, form a partnership in which the two super-powers will exchange presents, flatter each other, and agree between themselves on the conduct of the world . Many fear that America will choose the latter course . REPEAL OF 14 (B), THE LAW PERMITTING STATES TO OUTLAW COMPULSORY UNIONIZATION , is one of the disturbing straws in the wind . When labor seized power in Britain at the end of World War II a drive for compulsory unionization followed, to make labor's victory permanent. British sense of justice refused to accept labor's "pay tribute or no work" ukase . THE ECONOMIST expressed it, "To farm out to private organizations the right to impose compulsion, to do so with open eyes and in the full light of day, would be the beginning of the end of free society. This is why the community ought to look with a very jaundiced eye on any of the manifestations of the 'closed shop' principle . For an employer to say, when a substantial majority of his employees have joined one union, that he will not conduct collective bargaining with any other body is perhaps legitimate . For an employer to insist that his employees must be members of a union, while leaving them free to choose which one, is already verging on an infringement of liberty . . . . But . . . . to make every worker choose between unemployment and membership of a union he may detest, and which may refuse to have him -- is to go altogether too far . The union is perpetrating a tyranny and the (Labor) Board is condoning it . " A promise to institute such a tyranny in America was part of LBJ's deal with labor in 1964 . How hard the administration is working to ensure perpetuation in office by turning America over to the giant that delivered the vote may be gathered from a U . S . Court of Appeals judgment in the case of Allis-Chalmers versus the unions . (U . S . News & World Report, Oct . 4, 1965) "A union is a form of industrial government and the rights and duties of a member are similar to those of a citizen in a democratic society . . . . A union member may express agreement or disagreement with union rules or policies . . . . but he cannot simultaneously be a member . . . (and) be immunized against discipline . " Another way of saying it would be, "Within the nation is another government, more brutal, whose edicts every worker will obey or lose his right to employment ." The policies of this "industrial government", which American workers are ordered to approve and finance or lose their livelihood, are hardly likely to be less disastrous than those "dunA few examples : garee diplomacy" produced in the past . WHEN THE KING OF MOROCCO VISITED WASHINGTON in the winter of 1957 his first request was to see George Meany, to express thanks for American labor's role in restoring him to his throne by what Lester Velie (in his book "Labor-USA") described as dungaree diplomacy. The king was over-hasty . No sooner was he restored, in labor's war against colonialism, then the crusade against "feudalism" started and a labor mobster named Mehdi ben Barka was backed to replace the king . What right American labor has to make and un-make kings was never asked . On March 9, 1960, Walter Reuther, out to destroy the Union of South Africa through "dungaree diplomacy", wrote Christian Herter, demanding that America break relations

Page 3. with South Africa, cease purchasing gold from there and "suspend purchase of strategic materials from the Union of South Africa now being stockpiled by the United States government for defense" . Reuther then reproduced his letter by the thousands and distributed it through the Trade Union Congress of Accra, begging African labor leaders to add their voices. Thus a "consensus" is created . Reuther would sabotage America's defense program to extend his political power abroad . On December 1, 1960, AFL-CIO representative to UN, Jay Lovestone (former SecretaryGeneral of the American Communist Party) wrote the delegate of pro-communist Mali, requesting African support of UN's resolution against France in Algeria . . . . to "hasten Algerian independence and serve the cause of world peace" . On February 1, 1961, AFL-CIO announced in Miami, "Unions Plan Own Foreign Policy" . What it would be was expressed by G . Mennen Williams when labor held its national congress in Forest Park, Pennsylvania, on May 29, 1961 . Said "Soapy" Williams, addressing the volatile firebrands of Africa as U. S . Under Secretary of State for African Affairs, "You have aske$ whether we are going to follow our revolutionary traditions or be guided by our alliances with the colonialist powers . The speeches of our President and our UN representative, Mr . Adlai Stevenson, bear witness to our attachment to liberty, and our votes in UN have backed our words . . . . Our labor unions have brought you both moral and material support in the past, directly or indirectly through the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, and they will continue to do so ." In plain English, Mr. Williams was saying : When you African labor bosses clash with our allies, you can count on us to knife the allies . U . S . Information Service translated this speech and distributed it through Africa . Americans were indignant when the USIS center in Algiers was mobbed . By January 22, 1963, the N . Y. Journal American was reporting, approvingly, "Reuther maps Global Union" . Two weeks later the Wall Street Journal (Feb . 4, 1963) announced that U . S. labor was financing strikes in other countries, that interest and dividends from Reuther's great strike reserve would go into "a broad overseas program", but to avoid charges of political meddling it would be handled through the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) in Brussels . $3, 250, 000 was to be spent in such activity in the next three years . A glance through ICFTU reports discloses that backing of the Aden Trade Union Congress for an Algeria-type revolt against Britain, with outside-supported unionized labor providing the political force, was an ICFTU, and beyond it an AFL-CIO, project . Bear this in mind in the weeks to come . Through the waves of atrocities that shook the Belgian Congo after independence the former French Congo (capital, Brazzaville), under the Abbe Fulbert Youlou, remained relatively stable . The Abbe opposed Lumumba, sided with Tshombe, permitted no communist diplomatic missions in his country and barred training camps for terrorism in Angola . Sekou Toure, of Guinea, contacted subversive elements in Brazzaville in June, 1963 . Mennen Williams visited Brazzaville a short time later . Then the three labor unions-the new emerging political force for communist coups d'etat--struck . Two were Brus sels-controlled, one was out and out communist . Fulbert Youlou's government fell. The victory for civilization was tremendous . Simba terrorists got Brazzaville for a base, a new civil war ignited the Congo, foreign missionaries were killed like animals (Dr . Carlson among them), decomposing Africans polluted the air, Angolan killers got their training camp, and UN had a new case against Tshombe for bringing "mercenaries" in to spoil the fun. Back in New York Mr . Jay Lovestone was promoted from his UN post to head AFL-CIO's department of Foreign Affairs . The Algerian FLN he backed "to ensure world peace" were massacring Europeans and Algerians indiscriminately, offering 200, 000 volunteers if Nasser would invade Israel, and preparing to plunge Africa into civil war .

Page 4. If 14 (B) is repealed, any American workman who opposes this sort of thing cannot, as a citizen of the "industrial government" against which his national government offers no protection, expect to "be immunized against discipline" . THE NEW SOLAR SYSTEM OF ORGANIZATIONS by which the directives of the labor empire within the nation are implemented is worth constant study . The 1953 FOREIGN POLICY ASSOCIATION directory lists 787 "private" American organizations and foundations, many of them with State Department and Foreign Service ties and most, if not all, tax-exempt, working as overlapping propaganda and pressure groups . A smaller 1963 directory issued by the FOREIGN POLICY ASSOCIATION (345 E . 46th St ., New York) states that AFL-CIO's Foreign Affairs Section "issues policy and educational material on international questions, promotes legislation ; (is) member of International Confederation of Free Trade Unions" . Affiliated with the AFL-CIO is the "COMMITTEE FOR UN, INC . ", also at 345 E. 46th St ., New York, "to provide opportunities for UN delegates to meet American trade unionists ; sponsor meetings and conferences" . A "consensus" is thus established for Arthur Goldberg . Then there is the CONFERENCE GROUP OF U. S. NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS ON THE U. N. (170 E . 64th St., New York 21), composed of 81 national organizations "cooperating to increase public understanding of the United Nations ; serves as clearing house for the exchange of information and opinion among participating groups ; conducts forums, programs and briefings ; provides information and material" . This coalition of 81 national organizations orchestrates clamor which, for want of an opposing claque, establishes consensus by default . THE U. S. PRINTING OFFICE IN WASHINGTON provides a directory of tax-exempt organizations in the United States, of which the above are a part. The price is $2. In 1961 the solar system of tax-free organizations and foundations, urging the throwing away of more tax money in foreign aid, and relinquishment of sovereignty to the UN, covered 363 pages . Under attack is patriotism . W . W . Rostow says there is no place for nation and nationality in the modern state . (He remained as advisor to a President sworn to defend America) . Adlai Stevenson, in an article entitled "The Hard Kind of Patriotism" denounced narrow love of country, which is easy, and recommended the hard kind of patriotism by which men of strength betray their country for the good of the world. (81 tax-free national organizations were ready to take up this theme . ) WEST POINT MILITARY ACADEMY, its cadets erect behind solid granite walls, stands in the minds of Americans as the breeding ground of the antidote for Rostow -Stevenson poison . Moscow, Peking and Hanoi were elated when West Pointer Richard B. Steinke, educated at the taxpayer's expense, refused to fight in Vietnam . Then another West Pointer, Major Sarkisian, sponsored by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, drew up invasion plans for a proposed UN military offensive against the Union of South Africa. (See Chicago Tribune, July 24, 1965 .) How did we sink to this? President Kennedy's May 25, 1961 speech before a joint session of Congress may have had something to do with it . Extolling the "lands of the rising peoples", the President exclaimed, "Their revolution is the greatest in human history ." Another development is also significant : On December 4, 1964, according to the West Point ASSEMBLY, "222 student delegates from 91 colleges and universities, led by 34 adult specialists from the fields of govern ment and education , (emphasis ours) gathered at West Point", for the 15th annual Student Conference on U . S . Affairs (SCUSA) . Prince Bernhard of Holland, head of the Bilderberg group through which the internationalists impose policies, crossed the ocean to address the impressionable students brought to West Point's hallowed halls by "specialists from government and education" . His subject: the developing nations .

Page 5 . BRUSSELS IS THE CAPITAL OF SOCIALISM, as we have pointed out. (H . du B. RE PORTS, Sept ., 1963) And Prince Bernhard, on whom such meetings as the West Point conference and the Bilderbergs depend for dignity, is the Brussels socialist world's front. The international clearing house for socialist, one-world propaganda is the UNION OF INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATIONS . It is in Brussels . The 1962-63 yearbook listing the ULA's interlocking fronts covers 1500 pages and costs $16 (obtainable by sending a check, made out to the UIA, to the First National City Bank, 55 Wall Street, New York) . The monthly report of the UIA is $18 per year . Spread out and pieced together, the above items provide a picture of the heyday Reuther's lieutenants, Irving Brown (who is AFL-CIO delegate to the ICFTU and ICFTU delegate to UN) and Jay Lovestone will have, toppling kings and igniting revolutions, when repeal of right-to-work laws legalizes labor's taxation of American manpower for labor's ends . Almost unnoticed in the greater picture has been the relationship between labor unions and student unions . As this is written, one of the most sordid sheets ever produced in the name of students is circulating through the FRENCH NATIONAL STUDENTS UNION (UNEF) . The UNEF is closely associated with France's Red labor unions and maintains ties with the U. S . National Student Association through the latter's Vice President for International Affairs and his Paris office . The sheet in question is issue No . 4 of FREE STUDENT, published by the May 2nd Movement, 640 Broadway, New York . European editions of the N. Y . Times and the Herald Tribune, preoccupied with a hate campaign against the John Birch Society, have not mentioned FREE STUDENT 's appearance on the continent. It can be obtained for 10~ at the address listed . TO BRING THE AMERICAN SCENE INTO PROPER PERSPECTIVE : Medicare, Rentacare, Job Corps, Peace Corps, welfare giveaways, sprawling agencies that would be closed if men dedicated to the country were elected to office--what are these, actually, but legalized fronts for purchasing votes? Citizens electing Great Society candidates for the above reasons become professional voters, those disapproving of purchase by hand out are compulsory members of another union . The cynicism of the claim that the party in power is motivated by anything but a desire to create a class of government-subsidized voters is obvious . Let us take a look at liberal compassion when Truman was on top and the liberals were secure . THE AMERICAN CIVILIANS turned out of Japanese prison and internment camps in China were one of the most pitiful sights of the war . Ex-service men caught in China when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor had been charged with espionage and conse quently tortured . Most of them were there because they had Chinese or part-Chinese wives whom the Exclusion Act would not let them bring home . Other Americans were there because everything they had was in China and they were too old to start over again elsewhere . All had lost everything, including health . But this group, compared with the army of GI's being turned loose, was too small to bother with, for a politician . Few of them had vote-bearing, letter-writing parents alive . A number of important doctors, ins report headed "WAR'S DAMAGED GOODS" (Newsweek, June 19, 1950), stated that, "speaking for Jap POW's . . . their duration of life will probably average ten to fifteen years less than that of the general population . No one who suffered the prolonged starvation, degradation and physical suffering experienced by this group has been able to make a complete recovery, either physical or emotional . Military prisoners were cared for, since veterans' organizations and articulate mothers swung into action if one were slighted . Tortured American civilians were turned loose from Jap prison camps without a medical examination, without clothes, shoes or money . Britons and Australians were provided . with food, clothing, help by their national Red Cross . Americans were given nothing by anyone . UNRRA and its equally corrupt subsidiary, CNRRA, helped Chinese, German refugees -- everyone but Americans . American Red Cross food parcels stockpiled in Vladivostok were sold outright to the British. If liberated Americans got any of it, it was through the black market, which few could afford .

Page- 6 . Through the war years the Japanese had refused to provide prisoners with enough food to keep them alive . Accordingly, money was advanced by Swiss consulates for prison camp heads to purchase food . Civilian prisoners were forced to sign loan notes for their share . If a prisoner, apprehensive of a big bill (at an exchange rate yet to be stated) after the war, refused to sign his loan note, he was placed "in Coventry", prohibited from eating with fellow prisoners and charged with endangering the health of the camp by reducing its purchasing power . Eventually all were forced to accept and sign . But they were assured it was only a formality; the Japanese would be made to pay. Of the seven nationalities involved, only Americans were forced to pay for the food they ate while prisoners . In the case of ex-service men, their bills were held out of their pensions . Civilians had no pensions ; accordingly a State Department Finance Division chief named Louis F . Thompson blocked their passports until they could pay. Sleuths in Thompson's office hunted sources from which American victims of the Japs, already broke, sick and unemployed, might be expecting money, with the idea of attaching it . Any aging American, fresh from a Jap prison camp was a candidate for the bone heap . Many stayed in California because they could not get any farther . The negroes in Watts were better off. In reply to queries about a passport, without which no American too old for the job market at home could get a new start, the reply of the passport office was, "Fill out this application, buy a money order made payable to the Secretary of State, and we'll see what we can do . " Dean Acheson, he of the "Christian compassion" for Alger Hiss, was Secretary of State . When emaciated Americans spent their last dollars for a money order, Mr . Acheson, literally, used the mails to defraud. Money orders tendered in good faith, at a sacrifice, for a passport were simply kept . The money was never refunded when the passport was refused, pending payment of the forcibly signed loan notes . Congressmen were not too busy to pass a bill awarding nationality to Olivia de Haviland, the actress, thus freeing her from returning to her country of origin (Japan) to await a place on the quota, but they couldn't be bothered over a few hundred ruined Americans . Letters written to them were turned over to Louis F . Thompson and his assistant, Mr . R . C . Reeley, which only strengthened Thompson's and Reeley's determination to get the writer . Civilian war victims caught on the Chinese mainland were explicitly barred from war reparations or any payment for imprisonment or loss of health . On the other hand, Associated Press reported on April 1, 1949, that every man, woman and child in Western Europe would receive $18 in the first eleven months of the Marshall Plan . Americans couldn't get medical expenses out of the frozen assets of the enemy nation that stripped them . Ten years after V-J Day Harry Truman's old State Department Finance Division chief was still hounding Americans for what should have been paid by the Japs . Those who thwarted him by not returning home were eventually pushed into his clutches when the Reds took over China . There was no statute of limitations . LIFE Magazine, when asked to do something on destitute Americans from Mr . Luce's favorite country, was hypocritically philosophical . "This is just one of life's inequalities", opined the publication's letter-writer . "The individual surrounded by glamor receives the benefits, while the other, who may be doing quite as worthy work, is neglected . " Foreign aid enthusiasts threw America's gold reserves to the four winds around the world, in the race to see if they could drain the country of dollars faster than Washington could raise them in taxes . Mr . Louis F . Thompson said of the men in his geographical debtors' prison, when they protested that the Japs were supposed to pay those bills, "Why, it's un-American! These fellows are trying to get something for nothing!" Business Office : H . du B . Reports, Box 855, Huntington, Indiana. Foreign Business Office : Hilaire du Berrier, Hotel Lutetia, 43 Blvd . Raspail, Paris VI . Subscription price : $10 per year . Extra copies 20~ each to regular subscribers . Jennie Edmonds, Managing Editor Hilaire du Berrier, Correspondent

VOLUME VIII, LETTER 7 NOVEMBER-DECEMBER, 1965

FOREIGN AFFAIRS LETTER

H. du B. REPORTS

Dear Reader : Another year of compiling your reports is drawing to a close . Across the ocean your personal fact-gatherer is watching a humming, communist-directed machine mobilize and synchronize students around the world, in demonstrations against America and for an unprincipled rabble of murderers in Vietnam. The same machine, working a previous generation of students, mobilized support for other assassins in the same country in 1945 . Through your correspondent's hands pours a stream of tracts which the French Communist Students' Union mimeographs in France, wherever there is a university . The same tracts, dictated at the same central source, calling for solidarity with American students when they march to the door of the White House on November 27, in protest against the war in Vietnam, appear simultaneously in Italian, German or French at other universities across Europe . How does one explain what is called the "tele-commanded" communist student demonstration? Obviously the objective of the men directing this international uprising of students is creation of a world opinion (consensus in Washington jargon) which will do what Vietcong terrorism has failed to do : force America to surrender . To create pro-Vietcong, draftcard-burning students, one must first have pro-Vietcong professors . To have pro-Vietcong professors one must first have universities that will permit a mature professor to tell young students that he hopes for a Vietcong victory, while other young Americans are dying in a war with that same Vietcong . To have such universities one must have governors, senators, university presidents and parents who will tolerate treason and call it freedom of expression . FOR AN IDEA HOW SUCH A NATIONAL CLIMATE CAME TO BE INCULCATED IN AMERICA, there is no better example than the article by Adlai Stevenson in the July, 1963 issue of HARPER'S Magazine, called "The Hard Kind of Patriotism" . It is a diatribe against "super-patriots", which is to say, those who love their country but not in "the right way" . The man who was almost foisted on us as president argues that we have no "manipulated news, no dictatorial government imposes on us its version of the Therefore, there is no truth, we are at liberty to speak up against our shortcomings" . reason why we should give the instinct to protect what we have (towit : our country) "a colored wrapping of patriotism" . "Patriotism", says Mr . Stevenson, quoting Dr . Johnson, "is the last refuge of a scoundrel" . The kind of patriots he would have are those "who love America enough to wish to see her as a model to mankind. . . Our separate sovereignties and nationalisms must be transcended in a common, overwhelming union of deterrent strength . " A common, overwhelming union of deterrent strength--deterring patriotism to one's country-is what the united unions of communist-maneuvered students are trying to erect before Americans who think we should pay no attention to their artificially-created us today . world opinion are, according to Mr . Stevenson, "misguided patriots" . "My friend, Jean Monnet, has outlined the essential list", said Adlai Stevenson, bringing France's devotee of one-worldism into his plea for "hard patriotism" . Stripped of the colored wrapping of UN jingo, the objective of the two friends mentioned is : obedience, first to a regional, European super-state, headed momentarily by such impersonal socialists as Paul-Henri Spaak, Walter Hallstein and Holland's Joseph Luns, and beyond them (or the worse commission that will follow them) a UN headed for the moment by a Burmese socialist named U Thant, and certainly no one better when he goes . Opposing this, according to Mr . Stevenson, "voices are raised in the name of some super-patriotism, to still all criticism and denounce honest divergences as the next thing to treason" . Outreaching any "lunatic fringe", he added, "we have risen from the pit of McCarthy's time, when honest men could lose their jobs for questioning whether there were 381 known communists in the State Department ."

PARIS, FRANCE

Not only did no furor of indignation arise over such drivel, but when this article was delivered as a speech, the senior class of Notre Dame University awarded Adlai its "Patriotism Award" .

Page 2 . "True patriotism", said Adlai, "demands that in some essential categories purely national solutions be left behind . . . It is this effort to transcend narrow nationalism that marked the supremely successful Marshall Plan . . . It marks the great enterprise of European unification - after so many tribal wars (emphasis ours) . It could mark the building of an Atlantic partnership as a secure nucleus of world order . " (Reminiscent of "There will be no wars when all the world is communist!") "The open society fulfilling itself in an open world. This we can love", Adlai told HARPER'S readers and the "Patriotic-Award-bestowing senior class of Notre Dame. "_This is patriotism which sets no limits to the capacity of our country to act as the or ganizing principal of wider and wider associations, until in some way not yet foreseen we can embrace the family of men ." (Emphasis ours .) What Adlai is saying in all this fatuous verbiage is that if we will cease being petty, a European super-state, ,ollowed by a wider and wider world super-state, will come into being . Then all men will be embraced--a euphemism for tightly encircled--in one big "family of men" which, try as they may, they will never,break out of. And America, if her obstructionists can be hammered into line, has the capacity to make this monster, to which we should give our patriotism, a reality . The exponent of national betrayal continues, "Our prayer is that men everywhere will learn, finally, to live as brothers . . . 'Victory' in war has become a mockery . ',What victory--victory for what or for whom. " AMERICANS SHOULD READ THIS STEVENSON ARTICLE AND SPEECH . They] should study it . For here in essence is the doctrine expounded by the Union of Communist Students, at 3 Place Paul Painleve, in Paris, the Association of Franco-Chinese Friendship, at 136 Ouai du Port, Marseilles, and the whole network of European student organizations setting up mutual support meetings and information exchanges with the May 2 Movement, of 640 Broadway, New York. It also is the reasoning by which scientists are persuaded that national betrayal is a must on the thorny road of "'learning how to love mankind" . Another advocate of this common doctrine is Jules Roy, the French Red recently returned from Peking, whose long-discredited book on Dien Bien Phu has been resurrected and is being pushed by Harper and Row in America . It is also the line of Henri Salem, the French communist whom The New Yorker, the New York Times and the New York Herald Tribune praised to the skies when, under the name of Henri Alleg, he wrote his propaganda book, "The Ouestion", in the cause of the Algerian F . L. N. In 1960, 1 61 and '62 French students provided demonstrations, couriers, espionage cells and gun smugglers for Algerian assassins in France, encouraged by the American Left and the usual international solidarity agitators . It will be recalled that Gloria de Herrera, the so-called art student from Los Angeles, was arrested in the rounding up of one such ring. Today it is America's turn . The same international group of actors, actresses and writers who urged French draftees to insubordination and desertion in 1960 is now encouraging draft-card burning in America . On January 26, 1962, CBS offered American viewers a documentary called "France's Threat from the Right" -- actually France's threat from "the easy kind of patriots" who had no patience with the sort of thing we are experiencing today . Blinking his eyes behind thick glasses the head of the National Union of French Students stood before the CBS camera and affirmed that he and his student groups were "joining other groups" to make a stand. With what groups were they making alliances? CBS prudently did not ask . The American public was not told that the French student leader they were watching was a communist named Dominque Vallon . American students of the U . S . National Students Association knew him, however. When they gathered in New York on February 10, 1962, under UN auspices, to hear Sargent Shrives and Roger Tubby, U. S. ambassador to UN organizations in Geneva, tell them to go back to their respective communities and support the plan to loan UN a hundred million dollars to destroy Tshombe, they were full of the same spirit of solidarity which handbills in the Sorbonne courtyard are regimenting today ., The same master authors were composing the slogans .

Page 3 . Ben Bella, the Algerian Red, was then the darling of the international Left and those dedicated to Adlai Stevenson's brand of difficult patriotism. No responsible official or popular American columnist suggested for a minute that our helping communists lead a government to betray its army would have anything but the most salutary effect on NATO . So Ben bella was handed the sort of victory we are now being urged, by student demonstrations, to give Ho chi Minh. Ben Bella turned Algeria into a European Cuba and last June one of his henchmen named Boumedienne toppled Ben Bella . (Henri Alleg took refuge in the Soviet embassy, but other student heroes whom our budding traitors used to laud were sumarrily arrested. )

Today Peking is concentrating its propaganda fire on the Middle East. Syria and Lebanon -- key spots in Peking's drug empire with its lines spreading throughout the world -- are seething . One of Peking's master agents, and a man whom Americans are going to hear of during the months ahead, is a French communist named Jacques Verges . Our great dailies and busy liberals waxed eloquent over him when he was defending Algerian terrorists and their student accomplices in French courts .

Under the name of Mahmoud Younes and on an Algerian passport, Verges worked in Algeria until his friend, Algerian Foreign Minister Khamisti, was assassinated; then he returned to Paris and opened an office on rue Francois I for a new publication called REVOLUTION . Verges was the only European on the staff, the others were Chinese . Last year Khamisti's widow went to America on a propaganda tour and she in turn became the darling of the New York Times . After de Gaulle established diplomatic relations with Peking, Verges returned to Algiers on a mission and lived with Djamila Bouhired, the Algerian gun-moll whom our press pictured as a North African Joan of Arc six years ago . Then came the coup d'etat of June 19, 1965 . Verges married Djamila and the two took off for Paris . In late September the Chinese decided to step up terrorism in Syria and Verges was dispatched there . At date of this writing he is in Israel . He entered Israel under his French name, on a French passport, ostensibly to defend (under his Algerian name) a Syrian terrorist named Mahmoud Bakar Khidjazi, who is now being tried. In early October the Israeli government had a flurry with the native communist party and it was discovered that Verges was intermediary between Israeli Reds and the pro-Peking group in Beirut . From the Middle East to the courtyard of the Sorbonne, in Paris, as October drew to a close, pictures were circulated of American professors, indistinguishable from their students, as they paraded behind death's-head masks in demonstrations against the war America is fighting in Vietnam. That an indignant nation did not rise up in wrath was taken as a tacit admission of its guilt . This is how a mood is created in which West Pointers refuse to fight and students burn their draft cards . The same Red fronts distributing pictures of American professors and students marching in death's-head masks today were, a few years ago, showing pictures of Walter Reuther's hoodlums wearing gas masks at the Kohler plant in Wisconsin . A pattern is discernible . PUBLISHERS AND BOOK REVIEWERS HAVE THEIR ROLE. Together with the universities they make up the "intellectual Left", which is also international . On October 17, 1965, Cyril Connolly extolled Theodore C . Sorenson's book on Kennedy, in London's SUNDAY TIMES : "He (Kennedy) wanted a ministry of talent and got it", wrote Connolly, of the crew whom Sorenson described as "men who thought his (Kennedy's) thoughts, spoke his language and put their country and Kennedy ahead of any other concern" . Perhaps the draft-card burner and the West Pointer who refused to fight can reconcile this claim of dedication to national interests with the credo of the man whom Kennedy appointed to defend America in UN and the declaration of Walt Rostow, the President's personal advisor, that the age of nation and nationality is dead. How deep such poison has seeped into the bloodstream of America's body politic is evident from the fact that Professor Genovese, the teacher who hopes the Vietcong will win, is still at Rutgers, and the treason marchers still in the streets .

Page 4 . There is no such frenzy to tear them limb from limb, such as Chris Chapman (then in the U .S. Embassy in Laos) and his ilk launched in 1959 against men who only warned that the hated man in Saigon whom they were foisting on the Vietnamese people and on America was a liability . (When the tocsin-sounders were proven right, Chris Chapman was not fired; he was promoted to the National War College .) Such are the thoughts of men who weigh incoming reports on the synchronized demonstrations in Paris, Washington, Prague and Rome, against a background that the readers of newspapers have forgotten, if they ever knew . It is not easy to compress into six pages each month the facts subscribers deserve to have. WHILE THE UNKEMPT YOUTH IN DIRTY LEVIS OPT FOR NATIONAL SUICIDE RATHER THAN PERSONAL DANGER in America, elsewhere other Walt Rosto ws and Adlai Stevensons move on apace . At 208 rue Pessac, in Bordeaux, a Franciscan priest named Father Herve Chaigne publishes a magazine called FRERES DU MONDE (Brothers of the World), in, which the final embrace in the "family of men",', desired for us by the late American delegate to UN, is under the aegis of brothers in Peking . FRANCE IS PREPARING FOR A NATIONAL ELECTION AS THIS IS WRITTEN . Strangely enough, though subway stations and streets are littered with mimeographed papers calling for demonstrations, parades, deputations to American embassies and centers and automobile processions in support "of the New American Left",, there has been no organized clamor against the government ruling that ballot boxes throughout France will not be counted at the polling centers but sealed and sent to Paris for an official count. Communists, socialists, members of the Unified Socialist Party, Officers and Reserve Officers Associations (purged of anti-communists during the last days of the Algerian war and now slated to command forces that might be mobilized in the event of disburbances) and the national Teachers' Union are joined in a solid front to oppose Lawyer T-V, as he is called, alone among the presidential Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour . candidates, supports American action in Vietnam; even so, the American press is against him . A French editor addressed himself to his public, bewailing the paralyzing blanket of apathy spreading over the nation as election day approaches . A few days latter he received a letter from an old acquaintance which is worth translating for its diagnosis of France's ills, and the world's . "Dear Friend : Though I have not the privilege of being a provincial, I am writing to you anyway. I have followed your editorials with interest for a long time . One thing surprises me in your analysis of the conduct of Frenchmen toward the General (de Gaulle) : your surprise that they disinterest themselves completely with public affairs and lie down with so little protest at the feet of their master . The two go together and are the logical consequence of what is called democratic evolution . It has been recognized since de Tocqueville (1835) . "What is there at the base of this sort of democracy? Two essential factors : a passion for prosperity and for equality. The passion for prosperity, which means not only conserving what one has but making more, necessitates keeping the public unperturbed . The daily life of the modern man, during his money-making span, is so busy, so hurried, so full of work and preoccupations that he has neither the energy nor the time to bother with any affairs but his own . The only political passion he has left is the yearning for tranquillity . As this grows, other political aims disappear . The main preoccupation then is to get out from under the bother of public affairs and turn them over to some visible, permanent representative of the state -- to some central power which alone seems to have the interest and the means of defending the public against anarchy, and which it is hoped will do so because that is its only way of defending itself . "All those who withdraw into this frame of mind become foreigners to the destiny of all the others . To each, his children, his friends, his particular family become the only

Page 5 . group that counts . As for his fellow citizens, the other groups, the other clans, he doesn't even see them . If he crosses their paths at times he does not feel them . Hence the abandonment, so easily approved, of the Algerian departments of France . Hence certain projects which under the label of international cooperation and regional oneworldism propose attaching Brittany to England and France's northern departments to Belgium, because that, some believe, will lead to prosperity, and only prosperity counts . "Besides this passion for prosperity there is the one for equality . It is the only re maining part of the republican slogan . Fraternity, the sense of being shoulder to shoulder in the same community, the country, has vanished . Liberty, as long as the right to make money remains, interests no one, except in its exterior appearance . But a ferocious determination remains not to see a neighboring group enjoy any powers one's own group does not have, not to permit any man to distinguish himself and rise above the common level to pretend to tell others what they ought to do . At the same time, the public recognizes and even clamors for a strong central government, but will accept it only if it comes from outside the country, if it is above everyone else and everyone else is equal before it . (An international super-body) . "Consequently all the . intermediary bodies between the public and the central government have become discredited and have disappeared, whether they were constitutional assemblies or notables . Thus we have proportional representation which, putting all men on a common level within their parties, realizes equality between the mediocre and the exceptional, and produces a merciless struggle between parties, more with the idea of keeping another from assuming power than to accede to it oneself. "In this way our democracy evolves naturally toward an authoritarian system, a sort of new absolutism -- such as we know in France today -- to which the old words of despotism and tyranny are not applicable . 'I foresee', wrote de Tocqueville of Democracy` in America (1835) 'an innumerable multitude of men, all looking alike and equal, turning, without repose on themselves to secure small and vulgar pleasures with which to cram their souls . Over them rises an immense, guardian power which alone decides their joys and watches over their fates . It is absolute, detailed, regular, far-seeing -everything . "'It would resemble paternal power if, like it, its object were to prepare man for manhood . But it does not try, on the contrary, to do other than fix them irrevocably in a state of childhood. It looks after their security, foresees and assures their needs, facilitates their pleasures, conduts their principal affairs, directs their industries, regulates their succession, divides their inheritances . What does it not do to remove entirely the trouble of thinking and the bother of living? It does not break men's wills ; it softens them, bends them, directs them . It rarely forces men to do anything, but it applies constant pressure to keep them: from acting otherwise . It never destroys ; it simply prevents anything it does not like from being born . It does not tyrannize ; it hinders, it compresses, it exasperates, it stamps out, it stupefies and in the end it reduces each nation to nothing more than a troop of timid, industrious animals over which the government is shepherd .'" "Good luck to you", the disillusioned Parisian ended his pre-election letter to his The recipient, an intelligent man, published editor friend . He signed it A. A. A. A. ' s letter and agreed with him completely . But twelve months earlier this same editor was telling his readers what a tragedy it would be for the world if America elected Goldwater . And American correspondents in Paris seized his quotes to raise the specter of a hostile Europe if Johnson, the embodiment of everything A. A. and his friend deplore, were not re-elected . This is our divided world. It is with the thought that A . A . has a message for'our readers also that we translate him for our November-December Report, and wish our readers a respite of merriment on Christmas eve and strength in the year ahead.

Page 6 . FOR CHRISTMAS: BACKGROUND TO BETRAYAL - The Tragedy of Vietnam, by Hilaire du Berrier. Order this book (paperback edition) through H. du B . Reports or direct from WESTERN ISLANDS, 395 Concord Avenue, Belmont 78, Massachusetts ; $1 . 00 for paperback edition and $4 . 00 for hard cover edition. (Enclose 10 cents for postage) .

Gift subscriptions to H. du B . Reports will carry a Christmas greeting card bearing the name of the donor .

Address all domestic business correspondence to H . du B . Reports, Box 855, Huntington, Indiana ; address all foreign business correspondence to Hilaire du Berrier, Hotel Lutetia, 43 Blvd . Raspail, Paris VI, France . Subscription price : $10 per year . Extra copies of this newsletter 20fi each to regular subscribers ; rates on large quantities given on request. Hilaire du Berrier, Correspondent Jennie Edmonds, Managing Editor