The least that can be said for the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong is that they have fought the world’s greatest military power to a stalemate. If the best equipped US expeditionary force ever has not been defeated, it has without doubt been humbled. General Giap’s statement that “all … Read More
West Germany has watched developments in Czechoslovakia with as much interest and concern as the Soviet Union, Poland and other East European countries. It is symbolic of the changed climate in Central Europe that Bonn has come to feel that it has as much stake in the continuing stability of … Read More
President Johnson is a politicians’ politician. An adept in the art of power he has a great reputation for deviousness. It is not surprising therefore that his dramatic announcement that he will neither seek nor accept the Democratic party’s nomination for presidentship has been received with a measure of scepticism … Read More
Rumania’s dramatic withdrawal from the recent meeting at Budapest cannot but strengthen the impression that the Soviet Union intends to utilise the proposed world communist conference in November-December in Moscow to reassert its leadership of the movement and to put China beyond the pale. This is however too simplistic a … Read More
West Germany has watched developments in Czechoslovakia with as much interest and concern as the Soviet Union, Poland and other East European countries. It is symbolic of the changed climate in Central Europe that Bonn has come to feel that it has as much stake in the continuing stability of … Read More
It is widely assumed in New Delhi and other capitals that Japan which will soon become third largest industrial power in the world, after the United States and the Soviet Union, will not long remain content with its present “low posture” in international relations. Every action of the Japanese Government … Read More
President Tito is too shrewd, experienced and realistic a leader to believe seriously that a non-aligned summit can at this stage make a meaningful contribution to the resolution of the West Asian and Vietnamese crises. Why has he then proposed such a conference at the end of his recent visits … Read More
The world has changed greatly since the United States decided to intervene in Viet Nam in the ‘fifties first through the French and then directly. These changes have been so dramatic indeed that the Johnson Administration has been finding it extremely difficult to convince educated opinion either at home or … Read More
North Viet Nam and the South Viet Nam Liberation Front have won a spectacular initial propaganda victory. At one blow they have destroyed much of the credibility of US claims regarding the progress of the war and the pacification programme. Contrary to the more optimistic American accounts the Viet Cong … Read More
Current developments in Viet Nam, however dramatic and unexpected, should be viewed in the context of the steady shift in the centre of US military power from Europe to the Pacific and South-East Asia. By far the most important international development since the Sino-Soviet split, it is also a measure … Read More
