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SUBJECTE VIEWS OF BRITISH AMBASSADOR TO SOUTH DATE DISTR. 14 AUGUSTS192-BUN!
VIETNAM, H.A.F. HOHLER, ON A NEUTRALIST
DEL SOLUTION FOR SOUTH VIETNAM DA ELE
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PLACE &
EARLY AUGUST 1962
VIETNAM, SAIGON (7 AUGUST-1962)
Press 2171EHEMU
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APPRAISAL SEE BELOW WOHTERÍA 2171EWEMI 14 FIELD REPORT NO. VS-7782
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVENSOM
SOURCE AN INDEPENDENT VIETNAMESE JOURNALIST (C) WITH EXTENSIVE; CONTACTS; FROM ANOTHER IT
VIETNAMESE JOURNALIST.
APPR VALTHOUGH IT IS PROBABLY TRUE THAT, THE STATEMENTS SET FORTH IN THE REPORT WERE MADE
INDICATED, AN
IT IS 
CONSIDERED DOUBTFUL THAT AMBASSADOR HOHLER ACTUALLY HOLDS THE VIE
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THVL 17 BRITISH AMBASSADOR TO/SOUTH VIETNAM” H¥Ä¸FT ‘HOHLER, TOLD A VIETNAMESE
JOURNALIST ON 24-AUGUST 1962 THAT HE HAD BEEN READING SOME OF THE JOURNALIST'S ARTICLES
AND WAS "PARTICULARLY INTERESTED IN A LATE JUNE ARTICLE ON THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE
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WICHINESE COMMUNISTS AND THE SOVIETS (OVER NORTH VIETNAM. AFTER DISCUSSING. THESE
1.DIFFERENCES AT LENGTH THE AMBASSADOR STATED HIS BELIEF THAT A THIRD FORCE IN VIETNAM
VIS NOT ONLY POSSIBLE, BUT ACTUALLY EXISTS, AND THAT SUCH A THIRD FORCE SIN NORTH VIETNAM,
"COMBINED WITH NEUTRALIST. ELEMENTS IN SOUTH VIETNAM, IS THE ONLY HOPE FOR? VIETNAM.
HOHLER EMPHASIZED THAT THE ONLY SOLUTION FOR SOUTH VIETNAM VISYÄ NEUTRALIST COALITION:
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THAT WORKED OUT FOR LAOS THE AMBASSADOR SAID THAT THE AMERICANS
ARE NOT TRAINED IN GUERILLA WARFARE AND CAN NOT WIN THE WAR AGAIN
THE VIETNAMESE COMMUNISTS (VG) IN SOUTH VIETNAM.
2. THE CONVERSATION TOOK PLACE AT THE HOME OF PETER ROBERTS
INFORMATION OFFICER AT THE BRITISH EMBASSY IN SAIGON, WHERE
JOURNALIST
ROBERTS EARRANGED JA MEETING BETWEEN THE AND AMBASSADOR HOHLER
JOURNALIST
THE HAS KNOWN ROBERTS FOR SOME TIME THROUGH PRESS CONFERENCES A
AND SOCIAL AFFAIRS AMONG JOURNALISTS. THE WAS SURPRISED TO LEARNOST I
THAT ROBERTS HAD ARRANGED THEY MEETING AT THE REQUEST OF THELOCE ATRIANG
AMBASSADOR WHO HAD EXPRESSED A DESIRE TO TALK WITH HIMS DAT TURVE
JOURNALIST.
3. NEITHER THE INORGROBERTS HAD MUCH OPPORTUNITY TO STATES BELIM lis
JOURNALIST
THE I REVIEWS DURING THE CONVERSATION THE/STASSURED THE AMBASSADOR QUIOTZ
THAT FAR FROM BEING NEUTRALISTI MINDED, HE FEARS NEUTRAL ISMIÉOR EST
SOUTH VIETNAM MORE THAN ANY OTHER SOLUTION, SINCE HE BELIEVES
MOVED ITP COIDERED TONEMENT IN VALVERSTON HOT KIVITA NIK
NEUTRAL ISM TO BE NO MORE THAN A MAJOR STEP TOWARD ULTIMATE TAKEOVER
2 AND CONTROL BY THE ICOMMUNISTS ROBERTS POINTEDLY DISAGREED IKON VATRIATH
MYLED MEGAVOM ZORICE BEYDINGS VIE DELIMLINS VOSKMBYTOK COMJENAL (2) IŠMIRUNEL27001
WITH AMBASSADOR HOHLER'S STATEMENT THAT THERE IS NOƆCHANCE OF Eligs
DVIE YOG
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WINNING THE WAR IN SOUTH VIETNAM, INDICATING THAT IT IS MUCH TOO
IMLO
EARLY TO MAKE SUCH A BLUNT STATEMENT, ALLUDING TO THE HUGE EFFORT
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UNDER WAY AND THE GAINS ALREADY APPARENT ROBERTS DID SAY TO
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HOWEVER THAT THE SURFACING OF THE OPERATIONS IN NORTH VIETNAM SE
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ROBERTS ALSO COMMENTED THAT HE WAS SURPRISED AT THE FAILURE
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OF THE VC TO REACT EARLIER IN THE PROPAGANDA FIELD TO OBVIOUSLY
EXPLOITABLE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT OF PRESIDENT NGO DINH DIEM
M. DEPIBEKYLE VIEW CHEVIE ZA SEDMEEN THE PATIED RIVIER
AND THE AMERICANS.
11 MM HESKEPEL·
COMMENT 2012 SAID THAT HE THINKS THE ARTICLE THAT CAUGHT
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COMMENT 2021 JOURNALIST
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THE WELLOW HOOMAY HAVE BEEN AUTH 557!
THE INTEREST OF AMBASSADOR HOHLER/
ONE DATELINED SAIGON, 29 JUNE 1962,
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JOURNALIST,
THEY SAID THAT HE BELIEVED THAT THE AMBASSADOR HAD READ OUT OF THE CONTEXT
AND MISINTERPRETED VARIOUS STATEMENTS IN THE ARTICLE TO WHICH HE REFERRED,
WHICH
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MEACH CLACH
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JOURNALIST
/LED HIM TO CONSIDER THETICATION TEVICHE HOCD? THE
A NEUTRALIST. THE STATEMENTS 
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WWELLED ON HOOK HOHFEB
INVOLVED, WHICH APPEAR IN LAST PARAGRAPH OF THE ARTICLE, ARE
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AS FOLLOWS: DHSTUDENTS OF "COMMUNIST NORTH VIETNAM HERE WERE
OHIO CEMENT PART THE REPORTED GAINS AT LEAST FOR THE TIME
OF AGREEMENT THAT
:
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BEING BY THE PRO SOVIET GROUP WILL EXERT TEMPERATE INFLUENCE
EXERTEMPERATE
ONE THE COURSE OF EVENTS UNLESS THE SCALES ARE TURNED BY PEIP
PETPING
IN FAVOR OF ITS PUPPETS AND IF THE FREE WORLD
HEAR MOT ROCEEDING 
LEADER HOW.
KNOWS HOW TO CASH
IN ON THE RED DISPUTE THE X is oblon
CHANCES WERE NOT DISMISSED OF A LONGER
TOTTERING
TRUCE IN WEEL DRING THE ROW COMATION Coroner HELKA FE
LAOS, AND EVEN OF 
A POLITICAL
SOLUTION TO EMBATTLED VIETNAM DICED MEBLE DEWOCKYCA KONED
МЕЗІЕВИ
ITTIES (FIELD COMMENT! IN A LATE JULY CONVERSATION WITH AN
AMERICAN OBSERVER THE COURSEWORKED
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ILLIBERALITY OF THE DIEM REGIME, BURROWS APPLIED STANDARDS
MY WOVE
OF CRITICISM THAT EVEN THE MOST ADVANCED WESTERN DEMOCRACY WOULD
FAIL TO MEET. DURING THE SAME CONVERSATION, COLONEL HENRY LEE,
MILITARY ATTACHE TO THE BRITISH EMBASSY, EXPRESSED HIS OPINION
THAT THE WAR AGAINST THE VC WAS NOT PROCEEDING FAVORABLY FROM
THE KEE MOVED _ADA? HOM_10 
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NOLTING COMMENTED ON 8 AUGUST THAT AMBASSADOR HOHLER
THE WE? BELIEVED.
HAS. NEVER GIVEN THE SLIGHTEST INDICATION THAT HE HOLDS THE
ATTRIBUTED TO HIM OR THIS REFUR 14 THE VELICE TO THOR. ER BELAQUED
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OF THE GOVERNMENT OF VIETNAM! AMBASSADOR NOCTING SATE TERT FIL
ONE DVIFT IMED TO SO WIE TIES'
BELIEVED THAT THE INFORMATION SHOULD BE TREATED WITH GREAT.
RESERVE, AND WITH THE POSSIBLICITY IN MIND THAT IT MAY REPRESENT CYC
WAD THE WIDESTOVNA
"RABINT:
A DELIBERATE ATTEMPT TO CREATE MISTRUST BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES
AND GREAT BRITAINERENCE BELMEEN THE COASENAL CHESTEEM WOO DA DIEN
BEVYPIEK IM JHE KOVVИ bir x
OF THE (FIELD COMMENT. NGO DINH NHU BROTHER AND POLITICAL
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ON 8 AUGUST THAT, WHILE HE CONSIDERS FRENCH POLICY BOTH IN PARIS
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AND IN SAIGON TO HAVE AS ITS OBJECTIVE THE NEUTRALIZATION: OF
SOUTH VIETNAM AND SOUTHEAST ASIA, HE FEELS THAT THE BRITISH
HAVE A CONTRARY POLICY MORE SIMILAR TO THAT OF THE US, NHU
SAID THAT HE HAS HAD NO INDICATIONS THAT CAUSE HIM CONCERN WITH
RESPECT TO THE BRITISH ROLE IN SOUTH VIETNAM, AND INITIATED THE COMMENT
THAT AMBASSADOR HOHLER HAD SAID TO HIM RECENTLY THAT AN INTER-
NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOUTH VIETNAM OR THE NEUTRALIZATION OF
SOUTH VIETNAM WAS "UNTHINKABLE.")
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