This editorial from the Greenfield Recorder, dated August 12, 1964, clearly expresses the hostility many Americans felt toward dissent against United States policy in Vietnam. The writer criticizes the World Assembly of Youth resolution for absence of condemnation of Communism. He also feels the Chinese directed and supported the Gulf of Tonkin Incident of August 2 and 4, 1964, and feels the incident was part of a larger and more broad-based Communist act of aggression. This belief about a Communist plan to take over all of Southeast Asia was called the “domino theory”. The belief that the Gulf of Tonkin Incident may have been manufactured by the United States as grounds for war did not publicly surface for another decade.
Greenfield Recorder-Gazette. “Communication Trouble.” August 12, 1964. Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, American Centuries. https://americancenturies.org/collection/l06-051/. Accessed on October 16, 2024.
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