The Stakes in Vietnam

Kenneth T. Young has been a specialist on Asia for 30 years, as student, official and author. From 1954 to 1958, he was Director of Southeast Asian Affairs in the State Department; during 1954, he attended the Geneva Conference on Korea and Indochina and was later involved with several aspects of the 1962 Geneva Conference on Laos. Mr. Young served as U.S. Ambassador to Thailand and as SEATO Council Representative from 1961 to 1963.