“LAOS DOWN DRAIN”

Press, Volume C, Issue 29513, 13 May 1961, Page 11

“LAOS DOWN DRAIN”

Republican Leader's View

(N .Z.P. A.-Reuter—Copyright) KALAMAZOO (Michigan), May 11 The battle of Laos was already lost, a leading Republican said today. “We must face the fact that Laos is down the drain.” said the chairman of the Republican national committee. Mr Thurston Morton.

The Royal Laolians were “a happy people with no real desire to fight.” The situation in that country was “a difficult thing for this and past Administrations.” he said However. he criticised President Kennedy’s Democratic Administration for putting Laos “within the United States’ defence perimeter”

Mr Morton made his remarks at a press conference before a party fund-raising rally in Kalamazoo.

Strong Republican support for President Kennedy’s foreign policy came later today from the former President. General Eisenhower He pledged today after meeting with former members of his Republican Administration that they would trv to be bipartisan and stand behind President Kennedy on foreign affairs

Leaflets In Cyprus.—Leaflets. signed by a new organisation calling itself “Protection for Cypriot Greeks" circulated in Nicosia yesterday threatening “to mete out exemnlarv nunishment" to Greeks selling land and immovable property to Turks.— Nicosia, May 12.