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comp) Meera. Peace Mobilization April 4 - 6, 1969 ; ’ "Dear American friends, "On behalf of South-Vietnamese patriots fighting for independence and freedom in our country, I wish to extend to to you, participants in the April 5, ideo anti-war march and rally in New-York, my friendly greetings for solidarity. "I warmly welcome your rally, co-sponsored by the Nation~ al Mobilization Committee to end the War in Vietnam and the Fifth Avenue Vietnam Peace Parade Committee, demanding that the Nixon government end the war, bring the troops home and give full free- dom for black and Spanish-speaking people. I wish to welcome in particular the G.Is present at this rally and to all Gis in general who have joined in ever greater numbers the anti-war movement. ; "The population of South-Vietnam harbours no enmity towards the American people. We only want to live in peace and freedom on the land bequeathed to us by our forefathers. We do not want that sons of the American people die needlessly in.- South-Vietnam, md the wealth of the American people be squandered overthere. But we have been forced to take up arms to fight back a gigantic army, involving more than one half million of G.Is, sixty thousand troops of the satellite countries and more than eight hundred thousand mercenaries of the Saigon administration set up by the United States in South-Vietnam, an army which uses daily most savage menas of war to.devastate our country and massac out compatriots. "Faced with the setbacks it has suffered both in South ~ and North-Vietnam, the Johnson government has beencanpelled to stop the bombing of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and sit together with the South-Vietnam National Front for Liberation at the four-party Conference on Vietnam in Paris. The Paris Conference on Vietnam has dragged on more than two months and @& half, and a few days ago held its eleventh session, but contrary to the hopes of the whole mankind, especially thowz of the Vietnamese and American peoples who directly bear the terrible consequences of that cruel war, the conference has made no progress. oo. . CON" TAL . OS om ether renee rg YT ONS Tees arene Racha san metent eB, cirmrnet amr ae SA ioe a ee ame oe, es 77 .