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  • to support the allied troops was the major weakness of an otherwise powerful war machine. The Communists were thus free to plot in great secrecy and attack at the time and place of their choosing. This absence of popular participation made it also difficult
  • . They said they would press their Government in this direction. We will be working on them for more specific commitments, particularly - but not exclusively - on autos, in the remainder of their week's stay. ~ /!. John ~-- P. Walsh Acting Executive
  • would be responsible for ARVN/RF /PF and would cooperate with Free World Forces and also coordinate subordinate divisions and area RD programs. Reconstruction of Hue - - Thieu was particularly anxious to expedite movement of reconstruction material from
  • 3 MAR 1968 MEMORANDUM TO THE PRESIDENT I urge reconsideration of your decision to defer our seeking a $5. 5 million supplemental appropriation for aid to the Ryukyu Islands for FY 1968. Free and efficient use of our bases in the Ryukyus demands
  • - Title IX), increaaed efforts to accelerate Latin American action on reao!,irce mobiliution and conatructive economic and •oc1al policies (especially econcmie integration), and incrwed external economic aaaistance from other Free World sources. Our major
  • superior generalship, into the " enclave strategy " elsewhere, and get beaten. The other is for the Americans that some armchair strategists last year were telling them to and their allies to use some of the troops they have got adopt of their own free
  • of Vietnam and free world military forces. A probable and quite natural outgrowth of these apprehensions will be an even greater reluctance on the part of individual Vietnamese to commit themselves explicitly to the Government of Vietnam. This tendency may
  • CONYERENCE IS THE . WORRY THAT THE -. ,__,. ~ _ ·. ; · '!-. _,,',' CH INESE MIGHT -· PRESS THEIR CLAIM TO BE -THERE. -. . BUT · THE MAIN , POINT ·:-, : -~; . : :,:. IS THAT THEY _ARE NOT GOING TO MOVE, ABOVE ALL _IN PUBLIC, BEYOND
  • be pressed. Thieu himself proposes to chair the committee on the reform of the civil service. He proposes to streamline the service, weed out incompetents, substantially reduce the number of employees, adequately compensate the remainder, thereby increasing