A vote is expected before Memorial Day.
History has a habit of repeating itself, in small ways as well as large ones.
In the summer of 1958 we began telling the readers of American Opinion that Fidel Castro was a Communist. As a consequence we received many resignations from the then young and very small John Birch Society, on the grounds that we did not know what we were talking about. But of course in just two or three years both history and Castro himself confirmed that we had been right. For the past two or three years we have been trying hard to tell our members, and anybody else who would listen, that the Ngo Dinh Diem regime in South Vietnam had been used by the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations to destroy all effective anti-Communist forces in South Vietnam, And that when the time came to stage the great tragic farce now being cruelly played out in the swamps and skies of Indochina, in which farce our government is going through the motions and the pretense of helping the South Vietnamese to save themselves from Communist aggression, obviously the Ngo family had to be eliminated. And this gambit was completely impossible so long as the Ngo family were in power, because there were no honest and informed anti-Communists left in South Vietnam who could any longer be deceived into believing that the Ngo family was on their side.