FROM WASHINGTON: Notes on Vietnam.

The article focuses on the American policy regarding the Vietnam crisis as of April 1965. The decision of carrying the war to North Vietnam amounts in effect to an admission of defeat. It has been obvious to anyone with an elementary knowledge of the situation that the war can only be won or lost in South Vietnam, and that aid from the North, while substantial, is not and has not been the decisive factor. According to experts, it is a guerrilla war, and the winning of such a war requires the allegiance, or at least the passive support, of the population.