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SIDESHOW
by William Shawcross (Chapter 23, The End):
With some difficulty the administration persuaded a group of members of Congress to visit Saigon and Phnom Penh. In Phnom Penh they were greeted by hostile newspaper editorials. One urged, "Congressmen, don't misunderstand. Cambodia helps America, not America helps Cambodia."[...]
[US Ambassador John Gunther Dean]: should it collapse "all indications are that an uncontrolled solution will lead to an effort by the communists to impose their will rapidly, with brutality, in order to establish a new system in Cambodia.... This is the way they have been operating in the zones which the presently control.... It will be the first time since 1948 in China that an uncontrolled solution will occur, except that in this case, unlike China, there is not even a Formosa to which those who have been fighting the communists can escape."[...]
Representative Pete McClotsky, a liberal Republican from California...summarized his feelings with some bitterness: "I can only tell you my emotional reaction, getting into that country," he said. "If I could have found the military or State Department leader who has been the architect of this policy, my instinct would be to string him up. Why they are there and what they have done to the country is greater evil than we have done to any country in the world, and wholly without reason, except for our own benefit to fight against the Vietnamese."
With some difficulty the administration persuaded a group of members of Congress to visit Saigon and Phnom Penh. In Phnom Penh they were greeted by hostile newspaper editorials. One urged, "Congressmen, don't misunderstand. Cambodia helps America, not America helps Cambodia."[...]
[US Ambassador John Gunther Dean]: should it collapse "all indications are that an uncontrolled solution will lead to an effort by the communists to impose their will rapidly, with brutality, in order to establish a new system in Cambodia.... This is the way they have been operating in the zones which the presently control.... It will be the first time since 1948 in China that an uncontrolled solution will occur, except that in this case, unlike China, there is not even a Formosa to which those who have been fighting the communists can escape."[...]
Representative Pete McClotsky, a liberal Republican from California...summarized his feelings with some bitterness: "I can only tell you my emotional reaction, getting into that country," he said. "If I could have found the military or State Department leader who has been the architect of this policy, my instinct would be to string him up. Why they are there and what they have done to the country is greater evil than we have done to any country in the world, and wholly without reason, except for our own benefit to fight against the Vietnamese."
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