BLOODY WAR IN VIETNAM
Secretary General Thant of the United Nations, who has sought to play the role of "mediator" in the Vietnam war and thus get the Vietnamese freedom fighters to bow to the Johnson administration or at least give unwarranted concessions to the imperialist U.S. which has invaded their country, is now very pessimistic about the eventual outcome of the conflict after his proposals were turned down.
In Rome April 7, after talking with President Giuseppe Saragat of Italy, Foreign Minister Amintore Fanfani and Pope Paul VI, Thant told a news conference: "It's going to be a long war, it's going to be a bloody war and the prospect of peace is as distant today as it was a year ago."