The successful national reconciliation or open arms policy would be expanded to solidify the South Vietnamese civilian base and to increase the Vietcong defection rate. We must lend support to sweeping social and land reform. In South Vietnam. .a nation of farmers. about one and a half million persons are presently dispossessed of their homes and properties and are barely subsisting in cities or refugee camps. Perhaps the most popular program of our adversaries. of the National Liberation Front. is that providing broad rent reduction and advance toward the settlement of the agrarian problem so as to insure the land to its tillers. Obviously. this had had an appeal for the vast proportion of farmers who are tenants and who are not aware of the usual Communist practice of eventually reseizing the land into state farms and making the state into an even more oppressive landlord than was any individual before.