The Scoresheet, Fall 1974

JAMES E. DORNAN JR. PETER C. HUGHES

“Gentlemen may cry peace, peace,’ ” Patrick Henry told the Virginia Convention; “but there is no peace. The war is actually begun!” Such is the situation in South Vietnam, almost two years after the promulgation of the Nixon-Kissinger “peace with honor” in January 1973. To be sure, the massive and direct United States involvement has ended, and Vietnamese affairs, when covered at all by our nation’s leading newspapers, are now relegated to the inside pages. In the largest sense it is now, as an unnamed State Department official recently asserted, “their war.”

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JAMES E. DORNAN JR. PETER C. HUGHES

“Gentlemen may cry peace, peace,’ ” Patrick Henry told the Virginia Convention; “but there is no peace. The war is actually begun!” Such is the situation in South Vietnam, almost two years after the promulgation of the Nixon-Kissinger “peace with honor” in January 1973. To be sure, the massive and direct United States involvement has ended, and Vietnamese affairs, when covered at all by our nation’s leading newspapers, are now relegated to the inside pages. In the largest sense it is now, as an unnamed State Department official recently asserted, “their war.”