○  英语演讲稿：Renunciation Speech范文  ○

s much is clear: if they do mount another round of heavy attacks, they will not succeed in destroying the fighting power of south vietnam and its allies. but tragically, this is also clear: many men -- on both sides of the struggle -- will be lost. a nation that has already suffered 20 years of warfare will suffer once again. armies on both sides will take new casualties. and the war will go on. there is no need for this to be so. there is no need to delay the talks that could bring an end to this long and this bloody war.

tonight, i renew the offer i made last august: to stop the bombardment of north vietnam. we ask that talks begin promptly, that they be serious talks on the substance of peace. we assume that during those talks hanoi will not take advantage of our restraint. we are prepared to move immediately toward peace through negotiations. so tonight, in the hope that this action will lead to early talks, i am taking the first step to de-escalate the conflict. we are reducin

g -- substantially reducing -- the present level of hostilities, and we are doing so unilaterally and at once.

tonight, i have ordered our aircraft and our naval vessels to make no attacks on north vietnam, except in the area north of the demilitarized zone where the continuing enemy buildup directly threatens allied forward positions and where the movements of their troops and supplies are clearly related to that threat. the area in which we are stopping our attacks includes almost 90 percent of north vietnam's population, and most of its territory. thus, there will be no attacks around the principal populated areas, or in the food-producing areas of north vietnam.

even this very limited bombing of the north could come to an early end -- if our restraint is matched by restraint in hanoi. but i cannot in good conscience stop all bombing so long as to do so would immediately and directly endanger the lives of our men and our allies.

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