That India did not have an envoy in either Hanoi or Saigon during the recent crucial period in Indochina shows how slovenly is the manner in which the Ministry of External Affairs continues to function. All the same it will be wrong to make too much of the absence of … Read More
The US would not have backed France in the war against the Viet Minh in the early ‘fifties and then wrecked the Geneva agreement if its ruling elite in the country had not been possessed by a pathological hatred of communism as expressed above all by Mr. John Foster Dulles. … Read More
While it is self-evident that the Soviet leadership is anxious to convince the US administration that it will not allow communist victories in Indochina to deflect it from its policy of superpower detente, it is not easy to spell out its compulsions and calculations. This is not an altogether new … Read More
Long before the collapse of the US-backed regimes in Saigon and Pnom Penh, Mr. Alastair Buchan, former director of the Institute of Strategic Studies, London, wrote in his book appropriately titled The End Of The Postwar Era*, “There might, for instance, be virtually no American military presence….. west of Pearl … Read More
It is, on the face of it, extraordinary that at a time when communist forces have been achieving one spectacular victory after another in South Viet Nam and Cambodia, Japanese officials, leading commentators and editors should be preoccupied with the negotiations with China on the proposed treaty of peace and … Read More
