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Misplaced Hope Seen As US Fault in Laos
By Phil Newsom UPI Foreign News Analyst
It had been the American belief that, given the aid (approximately $300 million since 1955) and proper tools, the Laotians themselves would rise up in defense of their freedoms and turn back a Communist tide sweeping down from the north.
American military advisers departed from Laos this week, victims of their own high ideals, defeated by a way, of life understood too late.
A GUN in his hand gave the Laotian no will to kill, nor to defend his land, of which there always had been plenty, nor to preserve a way of life which always had existed and always would.
American advisers were convinced that man-for-man the American-trained Laotian forces were the equal of the Pathet Lao led by the Red Laotian Prince Souphanouvong.
But it was a belief that reckoned without the people of this lotus-eating land of Buddhist temples, flame trees, palms, rice-paddies and day dreams.
But with disaster closing in, the Americans could advise but not command. The Communist leadership operated under no such handicap.
Communist North Viet Nam poured in 10,000 hardened and trained Viet Minh troops to support the Pathet Lao. And, if defense of freedom would not induce a man to fight, the Communists had other arguments vouchered for by Americans who saw them in action.
The Vietminh permitted the Pathet Lao no retreat. An advance involved the risk of being shot. Retreat made it a certainty.
IN THE final days of frustration, just before the Geneva agreement which declared Laos neutral, this correspondent talked with American military men in Laos, as well as with
Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman of Thailand said it was only a lesser of evils, and that if neutrality worked at all, it only would be because the United States and Russia guaranteed it. Of this, too, he expressed grave doubts.
ambassadors and government officials of neighboring Thailand.
Orcially, there was guarded optimism that Laos would become truly neutral. Privately, most expressed grave doubts.
Only Russia, he said, could guarantee withdrawal of the 10.000 Viet Minh troops, and he doubted that Russia could force its will upon Red China.
OTHERS believed the Soviet Union at least would make the attempt. To fail, they said, would mean Russia would forfeit the chance of agreement on other bigger issues, nuclear testing, disarmament and Berlin.
Avtar Singh, Indian chairman of the International Control Commission, believed the United States was taking a necessary but calculated risk.
The Control Commission has recorded the departure of more than 800 Americans from Laos. It has no similar record of the Vietminh who now are free to join the fight in South Vietnam Nam or move against the border of Thailand for a new campaign of subversion and infiltration.
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BONN—(UPI)—An old question swirled around 86-year-old West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer today because he did not mention retirement during a major policy speech to Parliament.
Successor Omitted In Adenauer Report
Wednesday. Oct. 10, 1962 University Daily Kansan
Adenauer went before Parliament yesterday and discussed the German economy, rejected the idea of German initiatives to solve the Berlin crisis and praised western determination to stand up for German freedom.
But both his supporters and opponents noticed most what he left unsaid—when he plans to step down and make way for a younger man.
"Churchill left the political stage when new situations demanded new and unused strength. Great Britain and the Commonwealth survived this change. It is De Gaulle's and Adenauer's tragic mistake that they bind state and nation to their persons."
The radio station "Deutschland-funk" added:
"Unfortunately, we must expect the debate on retirement and the question of a successor to continue as long as a decision is not made. . . It would be desirable for the Chancellor to say something to clear the matter up."
India First Topic Of Travel Series
India was the topic last night of the first Travel-Adventure Series sponsored by the Lawrence Kiwanis Club.
The program, held in the Lawrence High School Auditorium, featured Russ Potter, noted radio script writer and announcer for NEC, who presented a film on India.
Potter, who directed and narrated the film, described India as a land of the spectacular and of contrast. He said India, as we know it today, has not changed much from the past.
Potter more specifically explained some of the social and religious aspects of India during an intermission period.
The program was the first in a series of travelogues presented by the local Kiwanis Club in conjunction with the Lawrence Adult Education Program.
The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling. —H. G. Wells
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