Archive Report
Archive Report
Offer of Postwar Aid to Both Viet Nams
After war's destruction, there must follow inevitably the difficult but more gratifying task of reconstruction. Attainment of a peace settlement in Viet Nam is no doubt still distant. But if success attends the efforts now being made by both sides to find a way to open negotiations, interest will turn increasingly to problems of postwar adjustment. Central to that interest will be the role of the United States in helping South Viet Nam or both Viet Nams to repair the damage of war. The population of the Viet Nams is roughly 34 million, almost evenly divided between North and South.
President Johnson, in his televised address to the nation on March 31, asked North Viet Nam to join ...