Ex-Official Urges Compromise Rule For S. Vietnam

Richard S. Winslow Jr. '64, a former U. S. pacification adviser in South Vietnam, urged gradual withdrawal from Southeast Asia yesterday.

"If the United States withdrew all troops by the end of the year, the war would continue for at least five, and perhaps upwards of 20, years. Vietnamese casualties would be very high, as North Vietnam is strong now, and with U. S. economic assistance, South Vietnam would be strong, also," Winslow said, in a discussion at Quincy House.

Resigned AID

Winslow resigned from the U. S. Agency for International Development mission to South Vietnam because of policy disagreements with the Thieu government and because of a distaste for his duties.

"In the last months of my five months in South Vietnam. I was increasingly asked to write reports on the political views of potential opponents of President Thieu by the CIA agent in my province," he said.

Winslow said that a "third force" favoring a coalition government in South Vietnam has developed since massive U. S. intervention in 1965. "There appears to be a large number of people not pro-Communist but so anti-American that they would settle for a compromise agreement with the Communists," he said.

The third force is dependent on American troops for the immediate future and continuing economic aid in Southeast Asia if it is to be successful in working for a coalition government, he added.

"If we pull out, President Thieu will be re-elected, honestly or dishonestly. All through Vietnam, it is clear from slogans and from the Saigon press that Thieu is opposed to any kind of power sharing with Communists," Winslow said.