SOUTH-EAST ASIA 30 YEARS ON 39 National Economic Development, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 1961; G Farwell, Mask of Asia. 8 8 Sec AREAS, Philippines - End of An Illusion, London 1973. 84 There is an incomplete but useful bibliography in M Leitenberg and R D Burns, The Vietnam Conflict, ABC-Clio Inc., Oxford 1973. 85 On Air America and its antecedents see P D Scott, The War Conspiracy, Bobs-MerriIl Co Inc., Minneapolis and New York 1972; this excellent book appears to have suffered suppression—presumably by the CIA?—for its uncomfortable exposures. Scott's work in the field of imperialism^ mechanics has been patient, ingenious and invaluable; see for example his "The Vietnam War and the ClA-Financial Establishment" in M Sel-den (Ed.) Remaking Asia, Pantheon Books, New York 1974. Familiarity with the Pentagon Papers, preferably in the annotated five-volume Beacon edition (Boston 1971-72) is obviously essential. See also R Stavins, R J Barnet & M G Raskin, Washington, Plans an Aggressive War, Davis-Poynter, London 1972. Two books by Vietnamese scholars are indispensable in vividly portraying the deep and tenacious roots of Vietnamese nationalism: Truong Buu Lam, Patterns of Vietnamese Response to Foreign Intel ven-tion 1858-1900, Yale University Southeast Asia Studies, 1967; and Ngo Vinh Long Before the Revolution, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1973. Also recommended is Helen B Lamb Vietnam's Will to Live, Monthly Review Press, New York 1972. 86 It is worth recalling that the assumption was prevalent among US policymakcrs that (so hostile were the peoples of Vietnam to the substitution of US neo-colonialism for French colonialism) it was axiomatic that sheer suppression was the first consideration; the Michigan State University Group, which contracted to help enforcement of US control, gave more attention to training police and civil guards and to building prisons and torture chambers than to training teachers and doctors and to building schools and clinics (seej McDermott, Vietnam Profile^ CND, London 1966). s 7 Conditions towards the end of the Thieu regime are vividly captured by Benjamin Cherry (a young English writer expelled from South Vietnam, for his honest reporting in 1972) in his article "Eye-witness in South Vietnam'-', Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol 3, No 2, 1973; see also Nguyen Khac Vien "With the Survivors of the Prisons of Saigon" in Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol IV, No 1, 1974. 8 8 The "Green Revolution^' has—whatever else it has achieved—yielded a huge harvest of comment and commentary; enquirers might care to start with a US government report entitled "The Green Revolution" (Washington, 1970) which runs through most major aspects. A fascinating contrast, specifically related to South-East Asia, may be had by reference to the following two articles: R W Frankc, "Miracle Seeds and Shattered Dreams injava^, Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol IV, No 3, 1974; and Alee Gordon, "The 'Green Revolution* in North Vietnam"' Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol IV, No 1, 1974. See also W F Wertheim, "Betting on the Strong?" in East-West Parallels, W Van H©eve, The Hague 1964. 89 An earnest but—properly construed—informative account is: R L Sansom, The Economics of Insurgency in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1970; the reader is, however, also referred to the more direct and honest appraisals in such sources as Vietnamese Studies, Nguyen Khac Vien (Ed.) and other such Vietnamese accounts. 4 ° Tlie literature on the Chinese model is now immense, but those delving into the subject seriously for the first time may safely be referred to the following as starting points. M Selden, The Tenan Way, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1972; J Belden, China Shakes the World, MR Press, New York 1970;W Hintons, Fanshen, Penguin Books, London 1966; K Buchanan, The Transformation of ths Chinese Earth, Bell, London 1970; E L Wheelwright and B McFarlanc, The Chinese Road to Socialism, Penguin Books, London 1973; J Gray, "Mao Tsc-tung^s Strategy for the Collectivization of Chinese Agriculture'^, in E de Kadt and G Williams (Eds.), Sociology and Development, Tavistock Publications, London 1974; K W Kapp, Environmental Policies