I MUST thank Terry Morgan for his article about my forthcoming trip to Vietnam, but I have to correct a factual error that he makes when he says that the British Friendship Hospital is in Saigon.
The hospital is situated in HA TINH Province which is on the 17th Parallel. It was built there because at the Geneva Conference in 1956, the country was artificially spit into North and South Vietnam.
The decision to build on the 17th parallel was in order to emphasise the unity of the country and to give equal medical services to people on both sides of the artificial divide.
For people interested in my story, copies of Saigon '45 are available from the Working Class Movement Library 51 The Crescent Salford M5 4WX, price £1 all proceeds to the Hospital and the International Village.
P KAISERMAN
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