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GO\ERNMET B ThE PEOPLE
THE GENEVA AGREEMENT OF 1954 PROVIDED FOR FREE ELECTIONS
"7. The Conference declares that, so far as Vietnam is concerned, the
settlement of political problems, effected on the basis of respect for the
principals of independence, unity and territorial integrity, shall permit
the Vietnamese people to enjoy the fundamental freedoms, guaranteed by
democratic institutions established as a result of free general elections
by secret ballot. In order to ensure that sufficient progress in the
restoration of peace has been made, and that all the necessary conditions
obtain for free expression of the national will, general elections shall be
held in July 1956...."
THE UNITED STATES AGREED TO ABIDE BY THE GENEVA AGREEMENT
"The Government of the United States...with regard to the aforesaid
agreements and paragraphs...will refrain from the threat or the use of force
to disturb them....In the case of nations now divided against their will, we
shall continue to seek to achieve unity through free elections supervised by
the United Nations to insure that they are conducted fairly."
-- Walter Bedell Smith. U.S. Representative to Geneva Conference
BUT ELECTIONS WERE NOT HELD
"Since President Diem's American advisers endorsed his decision against
holding elections, the North Vietnamese felt free to accuse the United States
of the first violation of the settlement."
-- Peter Grosse, N.Y. Times
DEMOCRACY IS PREVENTED IN SOUTH VIETNAM
"We talk about democracy in South Vietnam, but the United States has been
the major force in preventing democracy in South Vietnam."
-- Senator Wayne Morse, in May 1965
AND DEMOCRACY IS PREVENTED IN OUR SOUTH
Few Negroes can vote in the South--for example, only 7/% in Mississippi.
"The Mississippi challenge is the contest--filed on the first day of
Congress this year on behalf of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party--
to the right of the five Mississippi Congressmen to sit in the House of
Representatives. It is based on the allegation that the Congressmen were
nominated and elected in a primary and general election from which Negroes
'were regularly and systematically excluded by intimidation, harrassment,
economic reprisal, property damage, terrorization, violence and illegal,
unconstitutional registration procedures.'"
-- George Sloff, The Nationa
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["What's Wrong with the War in Vietnam" program], pamphlet, 1964/1966; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1884536/m1/4/: accessed June 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.