When it was announced, June 11, that a Provisional Revolutionary Government (PRG) of South Vietnam had been formed the preceding weekend, the spokesmen of Washington and Saigon dismissed the change as of no significance. “A change in nomenclature and nothing else,” said a member of the South Vietnamese delegation. “It is just like the NLF, a tool of Hanoi, another screen put up to mask the Communist campaign to take over South Vietnam by force.” President Thieu added from Saigon: “A propaganda trick of the Hanoi Communists, not worthy of any attention.” “The same old wine in a new bottle,” was the way Robert J. McCloskey put it for the State Department.
No doubt this is what they had to say, but let’s hope they didn’t mean it.
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