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70 PEACE IN VIETN. however, must be to bring the war to an end. Steps to convi: our adversaries of our sincerity are evidently necessary. While these initiatives are in progress, a whole series of forc international to local, need to be brought to bear on the problet The following progression is sct forth, not as a rigid pattern, | as suggestive of the wide possibilities. 1. The United States could call for a general cease-fire for parties, supervised by an international body to keep order prevent reprisals. Such supervision might be carried on by International Control Commission (ICC), which was set up the Geneva Agreements and is composed of representatives Canada, India, and Poland. The ICC would have to be entar: or reorganized and given a firmer mandate in order to meet objections on both sides to its present composition and functioni 2. At the same time, 2 Geneva-type conference should be cal together to reapply the principles of the Geneva Agreements 1954 to the current situation. The logical group to form suc! conference would be the original Geneva powers, which could assembled on request from- concerned parties by the co-chairm Britain and the Soviet Union. Some difficulties would arise reconveniag this group as originally constituted. For example, National Liberation Front, which had no place in the framew of the original body, must be included now. A more complicated problem is the official representation the present Republic of Vietnam, or South Vietnam. The pres military hierarchy in Saigon caa be expected to do all in its po to resist efforts to end the war on terms it would regard as favorabie. Its suppression of any expressions in favor of a peac: setUement has made open organized opposition to the war im sible. There is a large non-Communist sector of the populati of which the Buddhists and intellectual communities represent ¢ a part, which is vitally interested in ending the war, Some me must be found to permit them to express themselves. This require an end to censorship of the press, restored freedom political discussion and organization, and the institution of s¢ officially recognized body for public representation. *See Appendix HI: Decree Law outlawing Communism and pro-C munist neutralism,