New York, April 10—The North Vietnam offensive is likely to be critical in what emerges as a Democratic contest between George McGovern and Hubert Humphrey. It will not be insignificant in testing the resources of Richard Nixon. Already it has shattered the confidence of those few who believed that the Peking summit would bring instant benefits in Indochina.
George McGovern, though he voted for the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, began to oppose the war about as soon as anyone. That position is overwhelmingly popular among the intellectuals, and grudgingly popular among the people, who have lost any appetite they had for the Vietnam war.
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