--- title: Communist Aggression Against the Republic of Viet-Nam (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Saigon, July 1964), introduction 'Asia's Final Battle', page 9 url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/communist-aggression-asias-final-battle-introduction-1964/ description: A typeset introduction under the heading 'Asia's Final Battle' quotes the foreign minister's statement that if 'the Free World' lost the battle, India… section: Collection --- [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) [![Communist Aggression Against the Republic of Viet-Nam (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Saigon, July 1964), introduction 'Asia's Final Battle', page 9](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/communist-aggression-asias-final-battle-introduction-1964.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/communist-aggression-asias-final-battle-introduction-1964.jpg) # Communist Aggression Against the Republic of Viet-Nam (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Saigon, July 1964), introduction 'Asia's Final Battle', page 9 A typeset introduction under the heading 'Asia's Final Battle' quotes the foreign minister's statement that if 'the Free World' lost the battle, India and Japan 'would retain little strategic value' and 'trouble spots will spring up and spread rapidly even on the American continent itself'. The tell: a staged chain of consequences reaching far beyond Vietnam is offered as the reason to support the government's cause, alongside the labels 'Communist imperialists' and 'perfidiousness'. ## Text on the object Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` INTRODUCTION ASIA'S FINAL BATTLE Ten years after the Geneva Agreement of 1954, Communist aggression in South-East Asia is once again an acute problem. The attention of the world's capitals is turning now towards this strategic area and, with the future of world peace in mind, the question is being asked whether the peoples of Viet-Nam and Laos are about to fall victim to the grasp of Communist imperialism. The Government of the Republic of Viet-Nam is well aware of the key rôle of Viet-Nam in South-East Asia in the face of this danger to world peace. « The war in Viet-Nam is Asia's final battle » was the emphatic statement made by Dr. Phan-huy-Quat, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Viet-Nam when he spoke in Washington on June 4th, 1964. « Should misfortune decide that the Free World lose this battle, such last bastions as India and Japan would retain little strategic value. Trouble spots will spring up and spread rapidly even on the American continent itself. » This sombre assessment indicates the supreme importance which the government of the Republic of Viet-Nam attaches to the struggle in which it is now locked against Communist aggression and in which not only the freedom and national independence of Viet-Nam are at stake but also the peace and stability of the Free World in the South-East Asian area. It is furthermore an appeal to international vigilance in the face of the bad faith and perfidiousness of the Communist imperialists for whom treaties and international agreements are but scraps of paper, valueless except where they can be made to serve Communist interests. Hostilities have never ceased in Viet-Nam Striking examples of this are the flagrant and continuous violations by North Viet-Nam of the Geneva Agreement of 1954 which set the seal on the war in Indo-China. Ten years ago the Communists of North Viet-Nam solemnly signed these Agreements accepting thereby the partition of Viet- ``` Transcribed from the Commons page-9 image of the PDF; line-end hyphenation is rejoined except the final 'Viet-', which is cut by the page break. The 'Digitized by Google' watermark is omitted. [← Laissez-Passer of the People's Republic of the Congo, Stanleyville (1964)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/stanleyville-laissez-passer-lumumba-1964/) [Vietnam Fights and Builds, No. 1 (July 1964), cover →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/vietnam-fights-and-builds-no1-cover-1964/) ## Using the same techniques - [Miniature of Pope Urban II at the Council of Clermont, Les Passages d'outremer (BnF Fr. 5594, fol. 19r)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/passages-doutremer-council-of-clermont-colombe-1474/) (France · 1474 · Testimonial, Fear appeal). Content note: Medieval religious imagery and a French text describing alleged killings and captivity of eastern Christians, as used to argue for the First Crusade; the text is shown as written. - [Anacoana fut pendue sans raison (engraving in Le miroir de la cruelle et horrible tyrannie espagnole)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/anacoana-hanged-miroir-tyrannie-espagnole-1620/) (Dutch Republic · 1620 · Fear appeal, Name-calling). Content note: Engraving of a hanged, bare-breasted Taino woman, burning huts and people being killed by Spanish soldiers. - [Der Warner (broadsheet lampoon on the Jesuits after Breitenfeld and Rain)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/der-warner-anti-jesuit-broadsheet-1632/) (Holy Roman Empire · 1632 · Scapegoating, Fear appeal) - [Sans-Culottes, feeding Europe with the Bread of Liberty (James Gillray)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sans-culottes-bread-of-liberty-gillray-1793/) (Kingdom of Great Britain · Jan 12, 1793 · Fear appeal, Name-calling) - [Proclamation de Sonthonax en créole, Cap-Français (Proclamation of Commissioner Sonthonax in Creole)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sonthonax-proclamation-creole-1793/) (France · Aug 29, 1793 · Fear appeal, Scapegoating). Content note: Colonial-era proclamation on slavery and emancipation in Saint-Domingue; speaks of slaves, whips and 'Nègues' in period terms. - [Gazette of the United States, "The Jeffersoniad" no. VIII, 14 August 1800](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gazette-us-jeffersoniad-1800/) (United States · Aug 14, 1800 · Name-calling, Fear appeal) - [Brolej Žemajčiaj! (Brothers Samogitians!): hand-painted broken-cross poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/brolej-zemajciaj-broken-cross-1862/) (Russian Empire · 1862 · Fear appeal, Transfer) - [豬叫取胎圖 (Picture of the Pig Sect Extracting a Foetus), from Reverently Obeying the Sacred Edict: A Complete Picture Gallery to Repel Heterodoxy](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/pig-cry-taking-foetus-hunan-1891/) (Qing China · 1891 · Fear appeal, Name-calling). Content note: Colour woodblock caricature depicting foreign Christians as members of a 'pig' sect and showing them cutting a foetus from a woman; violence against a woman and derision of Christianity.