SOUTH VIETNAM: 68 COMMUNISTS SURRENDER.

Record ID: 920663

  • Title: SOUTH VIETNAM: 68 COMMUNISTS SURRENDER.
  • Date: 7th June 1963
  • Summary: 1. LS SURRENDERED COMMUNISTS IN HALL 2 ft 2. MS (PAN) - DO. - 7 1/2 ft 3. MS MAJOR NGUYEN 9 1/2 ft 4. MLS EX-COMMUNISTS 11 ft 5. CU EX-COMMUNIST LISTENS TO TALKS 12 1/2 ft 6. MS GUESTS AT CEREMONY IN FOREGROUND, AMERICAN MILITARY ADVISER 14 ft 7. MLS THEY RAISE TO PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE 15 1/2 ft 8. MS LEADER OF THE GROUP READS ALLEGIANCE 17 1/2 ft 9. MS (PAN) SURRENDERED COMMUNISTS 19 1/2 ft 10. MS LEADER HANDS MESSAGE TO MAJOR NGUYEN 23 ft 11. LS THEY LEAVE FOR RESPECTIVE HOMES 30 ft Initials CAR/S/MK/GAP/AMR Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: GIA DINH, SOUTH VIETNAM
  • Country: Vietnam
  • Reuters ID: LVADXXTBLHTVEMGWOXHDTLB68GHL
  • Aspect Ratio: 4:3
  • Story Text: SIXTY-EIGHT SOUTH VIETNAMESE WHO GAVE UP THEIR COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES AND SURRENDERED THEMSELVES TO THE GOVERNMENT OF CATHOLIC PRESIDENT NGO DIN DIEM TWO MONTHS AGO IN THE PROVINCE OF A GIA DINH WERE RELEASED ON JUNE 5 THIS YEAR.

    AMONG THEM WERE POLITICIANS, LEADERS OF ORGANISATIONS AND DISTRICT COMMISSIONERS, WHO ANSWERED THE PRESIDENT'S CALL FOR AN "OPEN ARMS POLICY" IN HIS COUNTRY.

    DURING THEIR TEMPORARY DETECTION, THEY WERE TAUGHT THE SOCIAL SIDE OF LIFE AND THE WORK OF THE GOVERNMENT IN ITS STRUGGLE AGAINST COMMUNISM.

    BEFORE THEIR RELEASE, MAJOR NGUYEN DUC XICH AND AN AMERICAN MILITARY ADVISER TOLD THEM AT A SIMPLE CEREMONY HOW WISE THEY HAD BEEN IN SURRENDERING THEMSELVES.

    LATER, A LEADER OF THE GROUP READ OUT A MESSAGE IN WHICH THEY PLEDGED LOYALTY TO THE GOVERNMENT OF SOUTH VIETNAM.THE MESSAGE WAS THEN HANDED OVER TO MAJOR NGUYEN.
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