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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP60-00321R000300300002-4
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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
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• Publication Date: April 14, 1958
• Content Type: MISC

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U,S. OBSTRUCTING SUMMIT CONFERENCE
Hanoi, VIETNAM NEWS AGENCY, in English Morse to Southeast Asia,
Apr. 13, 1953, 0500 GMT--B
(Text) Hanoi, Apr. 13--"One knows well what the U.S. imperialists
want by claiming for these past months that the summit conference
must be 'carefully prepared,'" says NHAN DAN in a commentary today
criticizing the U.S. obstructions to the summit conference.
The paper points out that while making this allegation, the American
imperialists have been striving to speed up their military plans.,
They have declared that they will continue their atomic weEpon tests.
Th :e United States has convened a defense ministers' conference of
NZIO member countries for Apr. 15 so as to compel West European
countries to accept the setting up of U.S. missile bases on their
territories and sign bilateral treaties with her on this question.
The U.S. scheme to delay the convening of the summit conference and
continue to prepare an atomic war is strongly condemned by world
public opinion, NHAN DAN says.
The paper welcomes the Mar. 11 aide memo ire of the Soviet Union to
the governments of the United States, Britain, and France voicing
lic:r agreement on holding the foreign ministers meeting not later
than the end of April or mid-May this year. NHAN DAN describes the
Soviet aide memoire as "one more proof of the Soviet Union's efforts
for the early convening of the suurait conference."
VIETNAMESE HAIL ROBESON'S BIRTHDAY
Hanoi, VIETNAM NEWS AGENCY, in English Morse to Southeast Asia,
Apr. 11, 1953, 0546 GMT--B
(Text) Hanoi, Apr. 11,-A concert was organized here last night at
the Doan Net Club to mark the 60th anniversary of Paul Robeson,
the outstanding Negro singer and peace fighter. The concert,
jointly organized by the Vietnam Peace Committee and the Vietnam
Performing and Teaching Musicians Association, was attended by
government officials, intellectuals, cultural workers, and other
people in Hanoi. Cultural attaches of foreign embassies and the
representative of the Indian consu)ate general in Hanoi were also present.
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In his opening speech, Nguyen Xuan Tram, assistant secretary general
of the Vietnam Peace Committee, praised Robeson's untiring struggle
for world peace and friendship among nations and condemned the racial
discrimination and war preparations of the American ruling circles.
He said: Marking Paul Robeson's'60th birthday today, we warmly hail
the songs and the struggle of this eminent peace fighter. We also
learn from his persistent efforts to maintain, cultivate, and develop
the national culture, and to use his art as a weapon to struggle for
freedom, equality, peace, and friendship.
Nguyen Xuan Tram added: "The tremendous peace chorus of the world
people to which Robeson is adding his voice will surely shatter the
reactionary forces and render more and more isolated the war-seeking
American rulers."
He went on: 'We hail Robeson and we are resolved to boycott the
depraved books and films now flooding into South Vietnam though
the U.S. imperialists. We hail the voice of peace of the American
people and we resolutely urge the end of American interference in
South Vietnam and the banning of nuclear weapon tests.
Nguyen Xuan Tram's speech was followed by some recorded songs of
? Robeson and a concert program performed by the central orchestra
of the Ministry of Culture.
SWI GIRL'S LETTER IS ANTICOLONIALIST
Hanoi, VIETNAM NEWS AGENCY in English Morse to Southeast Asia,
Apr. 11, 1958, 0605 GMT--B
(Text) Hanoi, Apr. 11--"In the inquiring eyes of South Vietnamese
people, the Americans have replaced the French colonialists, with a
still higher degree of contempt and aggressiveness," said Voice of
Vietnam radio in an English broadcast on Apr. 9.
The radio was commenting on the letter sent to the managing editor
of the Washington POST by Trang Thien Kim, a South Vietnamese movie
star who signed herself as Le My.
The radio recalled Miss Le My as saying in her letter--which was
frontpa-ed by the Washington POST on Feb. 25--that the American
,Government helps South Vietnam because it serves the United States
economically as a big market and strategically as a base against communism
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Le my, the radio continued, has expressed doubt about the real intention
of the United States, asking: "Will Americans go home soon, or will the7
stay in South Vietnam for 100 years?" Miss Le My told the Americans
point blank that 95 percent of the Vietnamese i?ople do not like them,
and that Ngo Dinh Diem in the eyes of the Vietnamese is an American puppet.
Supporting Miss Le My7s views, the radio said: The presence of thousands
of American brass hats, officers, and military advisers pulling the
strings behind all military headquarters, strategic highway construction
sites, airfields, SEATO member countries; the silhouettes of big U.S.
capitalists trailing over various branches of the South Vietnamese economy
and overshadowing local enterprises, causing them to wither and die; the
faces of U.S. officials and soldiers making fools of everybody including
themselves in gambling houses?these are not well viewed by our southern
compatriots.
This anti-American feeling is so widespread that one can say it is not
confined to South Vietnam alone. :In Britain, France, and West Germany,
-;.nare American troops are stationed, this is aroused mainly by bad
havior of the GI's. But in Okinawa, South Korea, Taiwan, and South
Vietnam, it is stronger because of"the understanding that the United
States is installed there as master in occupied territories.
The radio went on: We Vietnamese have a long tradition of hospitality.
This tradition has developec:, strongly with the recovery of indepe.Aence
and we are most eager to welcome friendly visitors to our country. In
the dark period of nearly a century of colonialism, we missed many
opuortunities of learning from others, and others of knowing about us.
Particularly in (word indistinct) strong spirit of internationalism has
been cultivated among our people. The world knows how, during the
resistance war, we were taught by President Ho Chi Minh and the Vietnam
Lao Dong Party to disinguish the French colonia:sts from the French people.
Since the restoration of peace in 1954, visitors to North Vietnam have
expressed good impressions of our people, the warm welcome they have been
given everywhere, and the peaceful labor of our workers, peasants,
intellectuals, and artists. These visitors include those from socialist
countries, from nearby Laos, Cambodia, India, Burma, Thailand, and
Indonesia, and also from faraway France, Britain, Sweden, and other lands.
These manifestations of friendship give material force to Pancha Shila,
the spirit of Bandung, and the spirit of internationalism.
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In all honesty, we must confess that in South Vietnam, since power is not
in the hands of the people, they have not had the opportun:ty of e,.?e.?.F,-;
their natural warmth to visitors. Our compatriots in the south are bitty
feeling that despite a few good Visitors, some others are unauthorized in ?
the country.
One thing must be said: The American people are good people, but some
ruling quarters in the united States are responsible for this anti-
American feeling., Their policy of interve n in South Vietnam is
disgraceful--yet the U.S. Government has. pledged. respect for the Geneva
agreements which provide for the independence, sovereignty, and
reunification of Vietnam.
As in other countries of Asia and Africa, only colonialists are unwelcome.
This explains why Americans are disliked in South Vietnam.
U.S. INTERFERENCE IN INDONESIA GROWING
Hanoi, VIETNAM NEWS AGENCY, in English Morse to Southeett Asia,
Apr. 10, 1958, 1100 GMT--B
(Text) Hanoi, Apr, 10--Criticizing Lincoln White's Apr, 7 statement
expresbing "regret" over Indonesia buying arms from socialist countries,
NHAN DAN today describes the United States as "a thief who cries, 'Stop
thief.". The organ of the Vietnam Lao Dong Party notes that the U.S.
State Department spokesman's statement was issued while U.S. weapons and
war material continued to be dropped or landed for the rebels in Central
Sumatra.
The paper says: So far the U.S. imperialist have not dared to support
barefacedly these rebels. ? Butvnow, as tha.latter are about to be
. crushed, they intend to interfere more and more deeply in Indonesia's
internal affairs.
Through her State Department spokesman's- statement on Apr. 7, NHAN DAN
says, the united States hopes to bring pressu:'7:! to bear on the Indonesian
Government and, at the same time, stimulate te rebels in Central
Sumatra and call on her Southeast Asian satellites to give further aid to
the rebels.
The paper goes on: U.S. interference in Indonesia's domestic affairs has
been creating many difficulties for the Republic of Indonesia. - However,
in response to President Sukarno's warning "not to forgive acts of
interference by external forces," the Indonesian people, united as one,
will certainly defeat the U.S. Interventionist maneuvers.
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