But this war is. to use a phrase used this morning. more than an episode. It is. I repeat. a tragedy which has been responsible for the devastation of the IndoChinese societies. for the ruination of cultures. for the creation of at least 700.000 orphans. for the creation and the accumulation of millions of refugees. peaceful people. especially in Laos and Cambodia. who sought nothing but peace and wanted nothing but to stay out of the war. We do bear a great share of the responsibility for the burden for that which has happened in that particular part of the world. It is my understanding that our Government may have been. in part at least. and unwittingly perhaps. responsible for the assassination of President Ngo dien Diem an act I deplored at the time and have deplored ever since.
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