Vietnam: The Logic of Withdrawal by Howard Zinn

Author:Howard Zinn [Zinn, Howard]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf, azw3, mobi
Published: 2011-04-09T23:00:00+00:00

Fulbright did not challenge in Rusk’s evasion the false statement of fact on the “first step” of France. (Actually, the “first step” of France was to try a direct military recapture of her former colony, what Jean Lacouture calls “the colonial expedition”; only when this failed did she try a more indirect form of control through the puppet Bao Dai.) And Fulbright did not say bluntly to Rusk that he had not replied to the question; he simply assumed that Rusk had answered the question in the affirmative, and went on from there.

Fulbright: … but what moved the State Department of our government to assist France to retain her control of Vietnam … ?

Rusk: The problem there, sir, was—I am trying my best to remember something which happened quite a few years ago—the problem was not just that, or was not at all that really of assisting France and establishing and reinforcing a colonial position, but to give France a chance to work out its political settlement with these states on the basis of their own independence, and without having Communism as a basic—without giving to the Communists a basic position in Southeast Asia. …

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