the appeals of the Government of the Republic of Vietnam for help in this defense of the freedom and independence of its land and its people. “In 1961 the Department of State issued a report called A Threat to the Peace. It described North Vietnam's program to seize South Vietnam. The report was presented by the Government of the Republic of Vietnam to the International Control Commission (ICC). A special report by the ICC in June 1962 upheld the validity of that evidence. The Commission held that there was "sufficient evidence to show beyond reasonable doubt" that North Vietnam had sent arms and men into South Vietnam to carry out subversion with the aim of overthrowing the legal Government there. The ICC found the authorities in Hanoi in specific violation of four provisions of the Geneva Accords of 1954.” (Kutler)Since then, new and even more impressive evidence of Hanoi's aggression has accumulated. “The United States believed that that evidence should have been presented to its own citizens and to the world”(Kulter, p. 64). It is important for free men to know what has been happening in Vietnam, and how, and why. The record is conclusive. It established that North Vietnam was carrying out a carefully conceived plan of aggression against the South. It showed that North Vietnam had intensified its efforts in the years since it was condemned by the International Control Commission. It proved that Hanoi continued to press its systematic program of armed aggression into South Vietnam. It is directly contrary to the “Geneva Accords of 1954 and of 1962 to which North Vietnam is a party” (Baskir p. 46). It is a fundamental threat to the freedom and security of South Vietnam. The people of South Vietnam chose to resist this threat. At their request, the United States took its place beside them in their defensive struggle. The United States sought no territory, no military bases, no favored position. But ...
