Tuesday, May 14, 1968
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Speaker predicts Indo-Chinese war
Even if the war in Vietnam is ended now, "another Indo-Chinese war more than likely will break out in five years or so," the founder of the international Project Concern said at KU this weekend.
Dr. Jim W. Turpin, an ordained Methodist minister who left a parish pastorate to become a medical missionary, has been in Vietnam about four years working to improve the health standards of the natives, but the war has impaired his work.
Dr. Turpin said the United States effort in Vietnam is all but won militarily, but has not gained the confidence of the people there.
"You have no idea how difficult it is to convince the American Vietnamese that the American fighting forces mean well in the long run," he said. "It is almost impossible to assure them that some day life will be better for them."
Dr. Turpin made these remarks during a weekend visit to KU. He spoke at a banquet in his honor at the Eldridge Hotel and at a reception at the First Methodist Church.
Turpin said the only way America can hope to regain the confidence of the Vietnamese is through empathy.
"Unless we show a considerable amount of concern for the privations of these people," he said, "we cannot help the people improve their lives."
The dismal pall which currently hangs over Southeast Asia probably will not be lifted in the near future, he said, because of increasing evidence of Chinese
activity in the war and the consistent refusal of anti-South Vietnam elements to withdraw.
Dr. Turpin's primary concern has been to aid the sick. He and medical workers have established several medical treatment centers through the support of Project Concern.
At KU, Dave Keesling, Herington junior, founded the national organization of Collegiates for Concern which seeks funds to build a hospital in South Vietnam.
During the banquet, Dr. Turpin gave Keesling a tribal ring from South Vietnam.
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