罗瑞卿副总理今年九月三日在首都各界人民庆祝抗日战爭胜利二十周年大会上讲到美帝国主义在南越的失敗时,引用了美国一个新聞官員这样一句話:“美国可以到月球去,但是如果不带上武装保镖,我們就不能进入南越的一个村庄。”罗副总理听說的那个美国新聞官員,就是駐西貢美国新聞处前主任約翰·麦克林。那句話,就是他在今年三月所写的記述美国侵略南越活动的《苦恼中的使团》一书中的。麦克林于一九五三年至一九五五年在印度支那担任記者,亲眼看到法国吃敗仗、撤出印度支那的情景。一九六二年五月至一九六四年一月,他在南 On September 3 this year, when speaking about the failure of U.S. imperialism in South Vietnam at the General Assembly’s celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan in September 2006, Vice Premier Lhrechite quoted a press official of the United States as saying: “The United States can go to the moon, but Without armed bodyguards, we would not be able to enter a village in South Vietnam. ”The U.S. press officer whom Vice Prime Minister Luo heard about was John Macklin, former director of the U.S. Information Office in Sai Kung. That sentence is what he wrote in March this year, describing the U.S. invasion of South Vietnam as a “mission in distress.” Macklin served as a reporter in Indochina from 1935 to 1955 and saw first hand the withdrawal of French troops from Indochina. From May 1962 to January 1964, he was on the south