Nhan Dan Reviews World Support for NFLSV (FBIS, 11 Jan 1965)

=== [PDF page 1] === NHAN DAN REVIEWS WORLD SUPPORT FOR NFLSV Hanoi VNA International Service in English 121] GMT 11 January 1965--B (Text) Hanoi, 11 January--Under the heading, "The World People Demonstrate Great Force of Solidarity With and Support for Our People's Struggle Against U.S. Imperialism," the Hanoi daily NHAN DAN yesterday reviewed the activities of mass organizations in many countries in support of the national liberation cause of the Vietnamese people on the occasion of the fourth anniversary of the NFLSV, 20 December. The article reads: In implementation of the resolution of the. international conference for solidarity with the people of Vietnam, against U.S. imperialist aggression, and for the defense of peace, 20 December, the day of founding of the NFLSV has now become international day of solidarity with the South Vietnamese people. Many activities marking the day were organized in Peking, Algiers, Moscow, Sidney, Bamako, Havana, and so forth. (ellipses as received). Slogans resounded all over the world demanding that the U.S. imperialists stop at once their aggressive war and withdraw all U.S. troops and weapons from South Vietnan, that they correctly implement the 1954 Geneva agreements on Vietnam, not use the United Nations to interfere in the internal affairs of Vietnam and Indochina, and let the South Vietnamese peopie settle themselves their internal affairs. Messages of greeting have been sent to lawyer Nguyen Huu Tho, President of the Presidium of the NPLSV Central Committee, by Premier Chou En-lai of China; Premier Kim Il-song and President Choe Yong-kon, president of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK; Prince Norodom Sihanouk, head of state of Cambodia; Prince Souphanouvong, chairman of the Neo Lao Hak Xat; Aidit, chairman of the Indonesian Communist Party; and leaders of other countries. Celebrations marking 20 December were held by international organizations such as the Afro-Asian People's Solidarity Organization, the Afro-Asian Journalists Association, the Peace Liaison Committee for the Asian and Pacific Regions, World Federation of Trade Unions, Women's International Democratic Federation, World Peace Council, the International Association of Democratic Lawyers, and trade union committees of world youth and students in solidarity with the Scuth Vietnamese people. Nearly 200 mass organizations of various countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and other capitalist countries in Europe, America, and Oceania, and Afro-Asian people's solidarity organizations held press conferences and read letters welcoming the South Vietnamese people. === [PDF page 2] === Mass meetings, exhibitions, and talks about the heroic struggle of the South Vietnamese people were organized in all the capitais of the fraternal socialist countries. The people of the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia gave a warm welcome to the delegations of the NFLSV coming there to attend the celebrations of the frent!s anniversary, 20 December. Hundreds of messages and letters expressing the militant solidarity with the people of South Vietnam from various organizations of trade unions, -youths, women, the peace committees, and Afro-Asian solidarity committees of China, the Soviet Union, Cuba, the DPRK, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and other socialist countries were addressed to the NFLSV and its member organizations and mass organizations in North Vietnam. Closely combining the anti-U.S. struggle of the South Vietnamese people with their own struggles, the Cuban and Korean peoples held "weeks for solidarity with the people of South Vietnam." In Cuba, an emulation movement lauding the South Vietnamese martyr Nguyen Van Troi was launched and received wide response trom the Cuban people. Hundreds of labor teams, many enterprises, schools, and committees in defense of the revolution were named after hero Nguyen Van Troi. The revolutionary armed forces held lectures on the heroic fighting spirit of the South Vietnamese people. The party committees at various levels conducted discussions on the revolutionary line of liberation in South Vietnam. In Laos, many meetings were held in various localities during the "month of solidarity with and support for the people on South Vietnam, against the U.S. imperialists and their lackeys." The organizing committee of the month issued an appeal calling on the Laotian people to actively support the South Vietnamese people's patriotic struggle and shatter the U.S. scheme to expand the war in Laos and use that country as a base to attack the DRV. (FATHERLAND), “TRUNG LAP" (NEUTRALITY) and other newspapers devoted articles praising the South Vietnamese people's fight and voicing the militant solidarity of the Cambodian people with the South Vietnamese people in the struggle against the common enemy, U.S. imperialism. Forty-five mass organizations in Japan, the peace and AfroeAsian solidarity committees in Burma, and many mass organizations in Indonesia held meetings and issued statements and resolutions voicing their support to Vietnan. Africa has shown its noble friendship and solidarity with the South Vietnamese people. In Algeria, in the week of solidarity with the South Vietnamese people-- 20-27 December--many meetings and talks were organized in major cities. The Algerian mass organizations sent a message of greeting to their fellow organizations in South Vietnam. On this occasion, many activities in support of the South Vietnamese people's struggle were carried out in Mali. A stamp marking this campaign was widely distributed in that country. -In the messages addressed to the NFLSV, many organizations in Africa wished that the South Vietnamese people would record many and still greater successes in their resistance war against the U.S. imperialist aggressors, for the peaceful reunification on the country.. They included the Pan-African Congress, African National Congress, Basutoland Congress Party, Zimbabwe People's Coalition Party, South-West African National Union, South-West === [PDF page 3] === African People's Organization, Bechuanaland People's Party, Swaziland Progressive Party, Democratic National Union of Mozambique (Udenamo), Free Liberation Organization of Mozambique (Frelimo), Federation of Trade Unions in Angola, and the Federation of Trade Unions, Youth Federation, and Women's Union in the Congo Brazzaville. ° Latin America has considered the struggie of the South Vietnamese people as its own. The delegation of the Venezuela National Liberation Front in Cuba held a get-together in honor of 20 December. On this occasion, the head delegate handed to the head of the permanent delegation of the NFLSV in Havana a letter of greetings saying, "shoulder to shoulder, Venezuela and Vietnam advance on the path to victory. No force on earth can check our advance." In a message to the Vietnam Federation of Trade Unions, the Chile Confederation of Trade Unions stressed: "We unite with the South Vietnamese people in the struggle against U.S. imperialist aggression." Twenty-seven representatives of Latin American countries have founded in Havana a Committee of Latin American Overseas Residents for Solidarity With the South Vietnamese People. Fighting continuously against exploitation, repression, and persecution by monopoly capitalism and imperialism, people in the capitalist,ountries have resolutely struggled to stay the aggressive hands of U.S. imperialism in South Vietnam. Many meetings in support of the South Vietnamese people's struggle against U.S. aggression have been held in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Saint Louis, Minneapolis, San Francisco, Paris, London, Montreal, Tokyo, Melbourne, and so forth... (ellipses as received). In Philadelphia the demonstrators carried placards demanding that the U.S. Government "refrain from expanding war" and the "United States, withdraw from South Vietnam.” On 19 December, the working people in Montreal, Canada, demonstrated in front of the U.S. Embassy there for three hours demanding that the United States stop at once its aggressive war in North Vietnam. Fourteen trade union organizations in Australia sent greetings to the South Vietnam Liberation Labor Association and the Vietnam Federation of Trade Unions. All this shows the warm sympathy and active support of the people throughout the world for the valiant struggle of the South Vietnamese people and constitutes a great encouragement for the South Vietnamese people in their resolute struggle to defeat the U.S. imperialist aggressors,