Principally for this reason. Vietnam has experienced proportionately the greatest largescale shifts of population recorded in recent history except for those which Hitler engineered in Eastern Europe in World War II: 900.000 fled North Vietnam at the time of the Geneva settlement of 1954. and another 400.000 sought to do so but were turned back. 300.000 Montagnards abandoned their villages in the eastern highlands of South Vietnam to escape the Vietcong terrorism of 1962. Civilian refugees numbering in the millions have left their homes in other parts of South Vietnam to flee from the brutality of the enemy. There can be no doubt that a precipitous American withdrawal from Vietnam at the present time would be followed by the full fury of a bloodbath against hundreds and hundreds of thousands of hapless people. It might be well to reflect on the specific pattern of enemy brutality. Dr. Tom Dooley gave an eyewitness report of the treatment given children in .Haiphong in 1954 as he observed it in a staging area for refugees who had chosen to exercise the right given them to move to the south. Dr. Dooley wrote in his book "Deliver Us from Evil": Now two Viet Minh guards went to each child and one of them firmly grasped the head between his hands.
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