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By G. MacLEOD ROSS
A phrase has 'been axed:.that already the fruits of U.S. Asian insurgent troops you
must (a) live with the local
people; speak their language
and know' their customs. (b)
Develop tremendous jungle ex-
pertiseto make up„f rt ff,sgitent
numerical inferior*. They
contend that the correct 'coun-
ter -insurgent measures demand.
a' "Presence” and not an oc-
casional fire brigade.
The virtue of this "presence"
Is that it givestime to win the
esential "hearts and minds"
campaign among the local peo-
ple. This entails helping them
to set up schools; running med-
ical services and helping with
agricultural techniques. This
campaign was conducted on a
shoe -string of $300 per battal-
ion per month. Despite the
small financial assistance given
by the government and the cam-
plete absence of any recognition
of its success, it was made suc-
cessful by the men, who Were
completely unselfish; 'ga've up
many pleasures and were as
friendly° understanding and pat-
ient with the villagers, as they
were tough and ruthless in the
jungle.
"The Arrogance of Dissent'
and, on the Mace of it, "dissent"
does seem to have superseded
"boredom" as the prevalent,
modern disease.
"Dissent" has not to look far
for causes to embrace; their
number is legion: Segregation,
low pensions; working condk
tions, atomic bombs, University
curricula and .most of .all dissent
from American policy in Viet
• Nam.
Immediately, let us examine
this last' which offers two main
aspects for debate. First the
why and wherefore of the U.S.
presence in South Viet Nam
and secondly U.S. tactics there.
Why Of Viet Nam
Just now the Fulbright, com-
mittee . of the U.S. Senate is
busy hurrying the president's
executive over what it calls
"American arrogance of pow-
er." Fulhright assumes a :mon-
opoly of truth and wisdom,
which has, in turn, been char-
acterised as the "Arrogance of
Dissent." Ones of the most
devastating replies to Senator
Fulbright came 'from Senator
Gale McGee, who pleaded in de-
fence of government officials
for "the right to be right" and
for Capitol criticism to be
"acutely responsible."
In a recent letter to the
"Globeand Mail," Mr. Duane
interventionwere being .gath-
ered. Turple, who spent the
last 1Q' year in Indonesia, relates
how the total collapse of the
Communist regime. there, dated
from the -determination of the
U.S. "to build 'military power
in Viet Nam."
At first S'ukarrto was frustrat-
ed in his attempt to form an al-
liance with 1Vlalay Sia and the
Fhillipines..:. This led him to
accept the inevitability of Chin-
esedomination, so he decided
to join his' enemies rather than
fight them. By early 1965, the
Communist power in Indoesia
had reached its peak.
Thencame the clear and
simple message that the U.S.
was prepared to expend what-
ever resources and . manpower
were pecessary to prevent a
Communist take-over in South
Viet_ Nam, Suddenly' the Indo-
nesians realized they need not
accept ,the brutality, the philos-
ophy or the destruction of their
economy by the 'Communists.
Thus it transpires that it was
the American way in Viet Nam,
which made' possible the In-
donesian _ solution
, in t e ab-
sence of a foreign presence on
either side.
Hearts And Minds
British 'officers who went
through the "Malayan Emerg-
ency" and the "confrontation in
V. Turple, gave it as his opinion Borneo," say that to ' beat good
is there
some car -safety you
z
need to buy'? '
These Malayan lessons are
supported by the action of a
battalion of the "Tiger" division
of the Korean Army, now sta-
tioned at thetown ora Boi,
some 300 miles north of Saigon.
The battalion area of respon-
sibility, covers some 50 Miles
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