Larry Baxter, A. S. C. A. P.
Director - Aeronautica
Office - 385 Main Street
East Haven, Conn. U. S. A.

06512

19 January, 1973

Staff Assistant to
Dr. Henry Kissinger
American Embassy
Paris

Dear Sir:

On this great and historic occasion we have taken this
liberty in sending our special enclosed airmail card...
We would be most grateful if you would take this card back
to Washington with Dr. Kissinger and kindly mail it to us
after Dr. Kissinger's return to Paris by that time wht Peace
Agreement will be signed. If at all possible we would be honored
to have Dr. Kissinger autograph our card... This will enable us
to have this card as an historic memento in tribute to Dr.
Kissinger's great and utiring efforts to bring an end to a long
and terrible war in Indo-China... Dr. Kissinger has honored us
many times in the past with autographing our envelopes on his
visits abroad... Please convey to him our hearties wishes for
great success in Paris..

[LCT]

ROBERT C. BELL, JR.

ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW
ONE EAST 44TH STREET
NEW YORK 17, N.Y.
TELEPHONE OXFORD 7-0430

528 Main Street
New Canaan, Conn. 06840

January 9, 1973

To the Editor:

Notwithstanding its size, our government is as sensitive as
any in the world. The President is particularly aware of the
public pulse. Few chief executives have done as many reversals
as he in both domestic and foreign matters. We feel that his
seeming intransigence in our long established Southeast Asian
policy is well justified for obvious reasons.

Until we have an effective world organization, the U.S. must
choose firmly between peace-keeping and anarchy in sensitive areas.
Any policeman knows that peace-keeping is a brutal job. When we
are assailed for 1,318 civilian deaths from bombs intended for mil-
itary targets in the Hanoi area, we recall a greater number of civ-
ilians buried in mass graves after one offensive in Hue alone, and
over 600,000 casualties deliberately inflicted on the South Viet-
namese as a matter of policy by the North. When we view pictures of
the accidentally wrecked Bach Mai Hospital in Hanoi, we reflect on
the hospitals, including leper hospitals, deliberately wrecked and
their staffs murdered by North Vietnamese in the South. The Pres-
ident has skillfully isolated these terrorists, militarily, polit-
ically and economically. They should be kept that way.

Of course, like Panmunjom, the Paris negotiations are a farce.
When North Viet-Nam refuses to acknowledge that it has any troops
outside its borders and declines to make any commitments concerning
their future deployment and activity or observe the usual laws of
war, it is difficult to establish any meaningful machinery for self-
determination in South Viet-Nam. Indeed we should not indulge in
charades or even give a sounding board to these experts in defama-
tion. Secretary of State Acheson said December 3, 1968, "In all
the experience that I have had with the Communists, negotiation never
preceded a settlement or got anywhere....When the Communists feel
that this effort has not succeeded, they will stop the effort."

We see that the best Soviet weaponry is relatively ineffective
against twenty-year-old B-52s. Most far eastern nations are highly
dependent upon rice supplies, which in turn require intricate irri-
gation systems. The quick, economical and humane way to end this war
is to destroy a half-dozen major irrigation dams in North Viet-Nam.