We got into this because between 1950 and 1956 the North Vietnamese. the Hanoi government. had slaughtered. according to the best estimates. about 200.000 people. Between 1954 and 1956 it is quite accurately estimated that 900.000 people slated for. punishment fled the country. aided by our furnishing ships to help them get out. The International Control Commission was in effect at that time. However. the Hanoi Government would not let any people desiring to leave the country approach that Commission which was supposed to be of assistance to the refugees. Nevertheless we assisted 900.000 of those people to get out and to the south. Their religious beliefs entered into that situation very strongly.
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