Monday, May 3, 1965
University Daily Kansan
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U.S. Paratroopers Sent to Viet Nam
SAIGON — (UPI)—A 3,500-man brigade of U.S. Army paratroopers will land in South Viet Nam "within the next few days," it was officially announced today. It is the first unit of Army combat soldiers to be committed to the war.
A joint statement by the U.S. Embassy and the South Vietnamese government said the paratroops are being dispatched "to press the war effort against the Viet Cong more vigorously."
A spokesman for U.S. military headquarters here reported that 1,000 American soldiers and three additional companies of U.S. Army helicopters were landed in South Viet Nam during the weekend as part of the military buildup.
There are already about 31,000 American servicemen in South Viet Nam, including almost 10,000 Marines at the U.S. air base near Da Nang.
ADVANCE ELEMENTS of the paratroop unit, the 173rd Airborne based on Okinawa, arrived today, the joint announcement said. About 60 men were involved in the initial group.
The paratroopers will be assigned to defend the Bien Hoa air base just north of Saigon and the Vung Tau air base and seaport complex 40 miles southeast of the capital.
The Bien Hoa air base is one of the key installations in the American and South Vietnamese military structure.
A U.S. military spokesman reported today that a U.S. Air Force pilot, Capt. Ronald E. Storz of Portsmouth, N.H., disappeared last Wednesday on a flight just south of the 17th parallel border between North and South Viet Nam.
STORZ TOOK OFF in his light observation plane from an
air strip at Dong Ha and was to have picked up a passenger near Quang Tri, six miles to the southeast. The plane never arrived and a search failed to turn up any trace of the plane or Storz.
The air war against Communist North Viet Nam slowed down during the weekend, but U.S. Navy, Air Force and Marine planes flew a heavy schedule of missions against guerrilla positions in a 200-mile radius around Saigon.
On the diplomatic front, the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization SEATO opened a three-day ministerial meeting in London to shore up allied defense against Communist aggression in Viet Nam.
U. S. UNDERSECRETARY of State George W. Ball told SEATO delegates that the United States would "welcome a
Lecturer Sees-
"Holland was also very imperialistic in Indonesia," he added.
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Dutch, with their adamant attitude, had created a situation in these colonies which made war inevitable.
A time, therefore, had come in the 1950's, Prof. Trager said, when the Truman and Eisenhower administrations began feeling that a serious attitude towards Southeast Asia needed to be taken.
Most of the nations in the Southeast, in the meantime, had become independent. he said.
WHAT FOLLOWED WAS a series of treaties culminating in the signing of the Manilla Pact of 1954 which formed the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO).
"The western imperialism had been gotten rid of. But they were now facing a new kind of imperialism, that of communist imperialism," he added.
COMMENTING ON THIS, Prof. Trager said, "Unless you understand this change very clearly, you will not be able to understand the U.S. policy in Southeast Asia."
He said that the communist bloc.
in attempting to check the growth of the growing influence of the United States in Southeast Asia, found it necessary to start a peace time attack on the independent nations in Asia.
BY DRAWING FROM all such historical data, Prof. Trager was attempting to prove that a pact like SEATO had to be created in order that the communist supported revolutions could be stopped and that peace and political harmony could be achieved in all these countries.
"The administration decided that we will sign military agreements with any nation in Southeast Asia if that would help stop aggression by the communists," he said.
The Geneva Agreement of 1954 provided for an international commission.
"The International Commission, comprised of India, Poland and Canada, was stymied right from the start because of the differences between Poland, who would not agree on any fault finding with North Viet Nam, and India, who kept insisting on the unanimity of vote. The commission decided that there was going to be an election n Viet Nam."
In this declaration it was mentioned that unless the provisions of the Geneva agreement were not carried out fully, the United States will not agree for the holding of an election.
on to say that United States, which had been watching all the happenings inside the International Commission, then issued a unilateral declaration.
PKOF. TRAGER THEN WENT
Prof. Trager then directed his talk towards attacking the American press and intelligentsia.
"What makes me really angry is," he said, "that at no time in these 20 years, have our professors or students advertised their sympathies for the thousands of Vietnamese who have been destroyed by the butt of the Chinese rifles."
"ONE OF THE ANOMALIES of the American press is that it has failed to report about the 30 countries, who have supported our aid to the South Vietnamese," he added.
"The South Vietnamese have and should have fought against the Japanese, against the Chinese and against the French," he said. "Now they are fighting against the North Vietnamese. In my opinion, Hanoi will be ultimately forced to come down."
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"The evidence establishes beyond the shadow of a doubt that South Viet Nam is the victim of deliberate aggression — a Communist 'war of national liberation.'" Ball said.
"The Communists have sought to present their attack as a 'civil war.' But this is a hollow disguise. There are now whole units of the North Vietnamese army in South Viet Nam."
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