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THE SUNDAY STAR-BULLETIN ADVERTISER A-2 July 19, 1964 TougK U.S. Stand Boosts Viet Morale Typhoon Elsie Nears Formosa MANILA (UPI)-Typhoon Elsie lost her punch as she passed over the Philippines yesterday, but dumped enough rain on the Northern Philippines to cause extensive flooding of streets, buildings and homes. By ED MEAGHER Los Angeles Times Service Special to The Advertiser SAIGON There is much evidence here to support Henry Cabot Lodge's assessment that the downward spiral in the South Vietnamese government's struggle against Communist domination has been checked. It has come about quickly, within the past two or three weeks, and there is a marked improvement in attitude and spirit among both Americans and Vietna ulation on contingency plans selective aerial destruction of Communist North Viet Nam towns, invasion of Laos by American troops, etc. but these measures have been pushed well back on the shelf.

They are risky last resorts. THE PRIORITY of the American effort to whip communism in Southeast Asia will continue to be within South Viet Nam itself, with the South Vietnamese themselves the spearhead. This will be the American policy, according THE REASON for this surge in morale is not hard to find. It is simply a reflection of what appears to be a new Washington policy toward the Communist threat, not only in this country but all of South-east Asia. The policy, that part of it which has been permitted to surface thus far by President Johnson, Secretaries Dean Rusk and Robert S.

McNamara, and company is to call Peking's bluff and then, if necessary, come out fighting. There will be much spec THE MILITARY advisory mission has required little or no additional expansion, but the buildup in the civilian agencies is virtually breakneck. Information and propaganda have been given, suddenly, an equal priority with the military, economic and political efforts. The reasoning behind this buildup is that the South Vietnamese government is derelict in facilities, technical knowledge and personnel in many vital areas. Expansion of American effort is simply to plug these gaps until the Vietnamese can handle the jobs to highly placed embassy sources, because it offers the best hope of defeating Communist ambitions without flirting with the disasters of a general war.

If it fails and it is pinned to the wavering resolution and will of the South Vietnamese people then will be the time for active consideration of contingency plans. TO MAKE the policy a winner that is, to create within the Vietnamese a sense of confidence and solidarity with the Americans in beating the Viet Cong the United States has re cently taken two giant steps. First was to announce the seriousness of U. S. intent by expressing a willingness to risk war in defense of South Viet Nam and Southeast Asia from communism.

Second was to expand and centralize the American effort here in a way never seen before in a time of peace. The entire American mission, upwards of 20,000 strong, is, in a real sense, on a war footing and daily becomes more agog with a sense of overwhelming urgency. Why I chose to run! mese. -1 NO SALES TO STORES OR PEDDLERS WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO LIMIT QUANTITIES SHOP SUNDAY 1 frPi YOUR I SUPERMARKET DISCOUNT vij -s v. Ja ws i 9 A.M.

TO 5 Military Affairs Analysis Stronger U.S. Support In Viet Nam Is Urged KAILUA BERETANIA WAIPAHU HiiiiiniunniuniiiniiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiTiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiriiiiiii THESE PRICES EFFECTIVE MON. TUES. By BRIG. GEN.

S. L. A. MARSHALL Press and public enthusiasm for the naming of Maxwell D. Taylor as U.

S. Ambassador at Saigon, with U. Alexis DDDELBBD 12 if mm MJM 11 Johnson serving as his deputy, was obviously based on the belief that it portended a bold, new policy toward Southeast Asia. Now that the new team, having taken hold, proposes only to fight it out on the present line if it takes 10 summers, it is time for a more realistic 3 XT Marshall EACH nn I MORTON'S AS TO THE Taylor appointment, naming a soldier to the top post in Saigon may better insure that political aims and military actions are congruent. But it is not notably for lack of harmony that we have thus far failed.

Whether a general or a diplomat heads the team is truly unimportant, provided mutual respect is present and the best use is made of both brains. In Viet Nam, either the military campaign succeeds or no feat of diplomacy will redeem what is lost; on the other hand, before it can be put on the high road, unprecedented political problems have to be solved. But it needs to be recognized that whatever may have been gained through Taylor volunteering for the post has been offset by the hazarding of other values. No four-star general sheds his identity along with his soldier suit. The burden of responsibility in Southeast Asia, and not alone in Viet Nam, has become pack-saddled on the American military, and it is not hereafter to be shifted.

Once again. Secretary of State Dean Rusk is cushioned against criticism as when last summer Republican Henry Cabot Lodge went to the hot seat. Our conventional fighting establishment is larger and more costly than ever before in peacetime, made so at Taylor's urging. Yet national reluctance about employing it to fight anywhere has grown in proportion. It was built big for deterrence, which to the public means that it 'will sit tight.

When out of this ponderous machine, the top man goes to the "only war we've got," the prestige of the armed establishment is put at stake. it- ir UNLESS IN Viet Nam, Laos and elsewhere in Indochina there shortly appears signs that U.S. policy aims are not based on excessive expectations, the Pentagon professionals will reap the blame. And in the unlikely event that there should be a marked turn for the better, civilian control, according to its record, will not disavow the credit. This is an invidious situation for an armed establishment which wishes to hold its peaked strength, while justifying the levels with theories about threats which might arise, having little or no relation to history as it unfolds.

Maybe someone should point out that all brushfires in our time Malaya, Greece, Laos, the Congo have particularly sticky little wars, which suggests that no exception is likely in the future. The "immaculate war" that the chiefs and Indians would prefer to fight the violence which falters when flown over, the insurgency which subsides from a small clobbering by air bombs is the affair least likely to arise. POT PIES PURITY BRAND BONELESS appreciation. A change of managers does not of itself resolve a dilemma. The course of the war in South Viet Nam cannot be changed by threatening Peking or Hanoi.

A turn' for the better awaits the recovery of the will to fight in a badly demoralized national army, which is prerequisite to the restoration of confidence in government among people of the countryside. But the only quick fix in sight for what ails this army is the forwarding of American combat units to join the fight. To imagine that the Saigon government can gradually reverse the conditions which continue to shrink its authority is like expecting a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps when sprawled. AN OCCASIONAL LOCAL victory will not re-vitalize the mass of a dispirited army. It requires some powerful stimulant that restores hope.

The steady drain on the morale of this army is the fear that the United States will pull out, the advisers will pack up and go home, and all will be lost. No amount of reassurance has offset the damage done by premature talk last winter of American troop withdrawals. For so long as the Viet Cong continues its stranglehold on South Viet Nam landward communications, it will scent victory. Unless reinforced, the Vietnamese army is not capable of loosening that grip. Is there then any possibility that the United States will be compelled by the absence of any logical alternative to send a few brigades to the fire? The answer is no.

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