On the Right

New York, April 12—There isn’t anything we can do, at this point, to reverse the situation in South Vietnam. What we could do is stop talking about the causes of the South Vietnamese defeat in all those nice formulations whose common denominator is that it wasn’t our fault. In preference to taking any such pledge, the columnists for the New York Times would prefer atom bombing Hanoi.

It won’t help in the case of South Vietnam, but the following points should be made, for future reference: