duong van minh led north vietnam during the vietnam war.
duong van minh led north vietnam during the vietnam war.
who led north vietnam during the vietnam war?
duong van minh
in february 1967, the soviet premier alexei kosygin visited london, and the british prime minister harold wilson tried to act as a mediator to end the vietnam war, offering to serve as a honest broker. wilson had been asked in 1965 to sent a british contingent to fight in vietnam, but as his labour party was stoutly opposed to britain fighting in vietnam, he had refused, a move that the normally anglophile secretary of state dean rusk called a "betrayal". to end a running sore in anglo-american relations as wilson was caught between the americans who were pressuring him to send british forces to vietnam and his own party who were pressuring not to, the prime minister was keen to end the vietnam war. kosygin told wilson that soviet influence in north vietnam was limited as the north vietnamese sought to play the soviet union off against china, but if the americans were willing to cease their bombing of north vietnam, the soviet government would indeed pressure ho chi minh to open peace talks. speaking on what he thought was a secure telephone line from the soviet embassy in london to the kremlin, kosygin told the soviet leader leonid brezhnev that there was a "great opportunity for peace", through in the same call he admitted that the militant, ultra-leftwing line taken by china would pose problems. unknown to kosygin, mi5 had tapped the telephone line and a translated transcript of his call to brezhnev was forwarded to wilson. the transcript convinced wilson that kosygin was negotiating in good faith, and the prime minister then contracted the americans. american decision-makers tended to exaggerate soviet influence over north vietnam, and wilson's message that kosygin was willing to apply pressure on north vietnam was seen by johnson as potentially opening the door for peace. johnson directed david k. e. bruce, the u.s. ambassador to the court of st. james together with harriman's deputy chester cooper to work alongside wilson in what was code-named operation sunflower. rostow reminded johnson of wilson's "betrayal" in not sending british forces to vietnam and advised the president not to trust him. rostow was extremely negative about operation sunflower, called wilson a vain and dishonest man who was working to end the vietnam war on terms unfavorable to the united states, and did his best to fan johnson's already strong dislike of wilson. johnson only approved of operation sunflower because it would be too politically embarrassing to turn an opportunity outright.
walt whitman rostow
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bullet::::- military history of australia during the vietnam war
outline of the vietnam war