Pe se mca ninela= pais CE iat nea Aggression? L.A, Vancouver, writes: The complaints by U.S. soldiers that One reads about in the press, complaints about the “dirty” traps laid for them by the Viet- Namese, makes one wonder if defence is ‘‘dirty?’? Such traps are only set off when one goes there who shouldn’t be there, And it’s the Vietnamese’ country. On the other hand the U.S. bring the forms of death that they use from 8,000 miles away, and de- liver it from the air, so as to avoid large U.S. casualty lists, And this requires that every- thing on the ground be mowed down — crops, foliage, child- ren, everything, It makes one wonder ifthe U.S. Soldier has become so indoctrin- ated with the Dulles idea, that anything the U.S. doesn’t want anywhere in the world is “ag- sression;” that any opposition to ‘the GI, such as squirming or shrieking when being beaten 0 death, appears to him to be aggression,” as it does to his sovernment in Vietnam or other countries, * ok U.S. & Vietnam Charles de la poer Gough, Vancouver, writes: A few days ag0 war correspondent Arnett, an Australian and a Pulitzer Prize winner, gave a talk on one of our radio stations as to the Conditions of the undeclared war in South Vietnam, Being an Australian whose forces are Supporting the U.S.A. and also’ the fact that he is married to a charming South Vietnamese lady and being in the Pay of the. U.S.A., his talk was naturally pro-American and his mumbo jumbo would make any well-thinking man vomit. To every four or five Ameri- Can casualties there were hund- reds of Viet Cong casualties according to the tripe he was handing out for Canadian con- Sumption, We are all aware of the partial Censorship in the U.S.A. press Minimizing the casualties suf- fered by the draftees and marines and only the widows and orphans and parents of the dead know the true facts, How long can the U.S.A. stand for the enormous casualties suf- fered in Manpower and the hund- Teds of bombing planes (at the cost of millions of dollars) brought down by the competent efficient Vietnamese gunners, Already hundreds of thousands ~ of Americans are against this un- declared war and most are dis- | FORUM. satisified and agree that the administration wasn’t communi- cating effectively with the Ameri- can people and foreigners, Walter Lippmann wrote and I quote: *The reason why the President has not been genuinely serious about negotiation is that a negotiated peace would inevit-. ably reflect the fact that he has not won the war — that the Viet Cong and North Vietnam are un- defeated. A negotiated peace would not mean that we had been defeated, but it would mean that we have failed to win.” The fact remains that it takes two to negotiate and I have it in writing as I stated in a previous article that Prssident Ho Chi Minh has dec: emphatically that he will -zotiate while one Americar dier remainson his soil and ‘CLINTON HALL, 2605 E, Pender, _ Available for banquets, mee- ' tings, weddings, etc. Phone (AL 3-9964, eee RUSSIAN PEOPLES HOME, .— { Available for’ meetings, ban- quets and weddings at reascn-— _ ‘able rates, 600 Campbell Ave, * 254-3430, _ 5 | PENDER | Auditorium (Marine Workers) 339 West Pender Phone MU 1-9481 Large and Small Halls — i for Rentals =f July 8, 1966—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 7