SECRET AGREEMENT AT HONOLULU?
~ In the March 25 Socialist Congressman of New Delhi, H.D.Malaviya contrasts the Tashkent and Honolulu declarations, arguing that the latter was part of a plan to escalate the war in Southeast.Asia. While utilizing press reports, Malaviya may also have had access to special sources of information in New Delhi. He describes Johnson's meeting with Ky as. follows:
"President Johnson listened impatiently to the report from Ky and his functionaries and then read two documents which were called the Honolulu Declaration and Communiqué. The South Vietnamese Side was not allowed to change a word in them. Ky simply affixed his signature under both these documents. Equally submissively he is reported to have signed four other secret agreements bearing on:
"(i) Further broadening of the already big rights and privileges of American servicemen in Vietnam;
-"(44) Additional prerogatives for private American companies and protection of their property by South Vietnamese soldiers;
"(iii) The construction of new secret sites for stationing American long-range strategic missiles;
"(iv) The training of an additional number of commandos from among the best South Vietnamese soldiers.
"It is thus clear that negotiations in Honolulu were con= ducted from positions of strength and open pressure....A Reuter correspondent reported from Honolulu that the approach to the war was stated by President Johnson while Premier KY ‘Simply had to ‘Listen: and say ‘yes. is ah oo
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