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Show Viet debate waged on camout justifying America's "stay in" or "pull out" prospects for Viet Nam were Dr. J. D. Williams, director of the Hinkley Institute of Politics and Dr. William Whisner, professor of philosophy, at the fourth political science Free U meeting. Williams Wil-liams favors remaining in Southeast Asia while Whisner advocates pulling out. Dr. Williams maintained that our current role was not justified, on the basis of 3 contentions (1) Self-determination, (2) Anti-Communism and, (3) The Domino Theory. According to Dr. Williams, Wil-liams, the nature of our country is based on self-determination, self-determination, and our allowing the subjection of one country by another is opposed to this. He also pointed out that communism is monolithic, and that we should check its spread. His third contention con-tention was based on the Domino theory, this theory stating that, "unchecked aggression begets aggression." aggres-sion." As an illustration of this he gave an example of the events leading up to World War H Japan's aggression against China in an attempt to build ' an oriental empire, Germany's unchecked takeover of Austria, and Italy's imperialism in Ethiopia. Dr. Whisner held that our present position of Vietnam "is both immoral and illegal." He based i his conclusions on the grounds that the war is not that of an external aggressor but is internal. The French colonialists, after the battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954, entered a Geneva Court Treaty with the Nationalist forces, who wanted to win politic ally and discontinue the fighting (President Eisenhower Eisen-hower stated if there were an election in 1956, 80 percent of the Vietnamese people would have voted for Ho Chi Minh), the conditions of the treaty being that a temporary line of demarcation would be set up on the 17th parallel, with the Nationalist forces remaining in the North. At the end of two years there was to be a nationwide election, with the group elected to govern. Unfortunately the elechon never took place. Diem, supported by the United States, established a dictatorship in the South and kept postponing the elections until 1958 Ho Chi Minh still discouraged violence in the South because he thought there still might be an election Until the Nationalist forces in the South started NTr "'I0" 3gainSt Diem's "P"sion. the North did not start supplying the South with arms and other goods. In rebuttal, Dr. Williams stated that our support of a non-communist dictatorship temporarily is better than our support of one under communism due to its monolithic nature. Most dictatorships are open to change resulting from internal revolution, revolu-tion, under communism there is no way out Williams proposed that there be established a unilateral treaty, with a nationwide Vietnamese election being held, with absolute certainty that the plebiscite be upheld, and policed by U N forces |