:08:03
I've read your articles.
:08:05
- May I join you?
- Please.
:08:07
And what brings you to Saigon, Mr Pyle?
:08:10
I'm with the Economic Aid Mission,
on the medical side.
:08:14
Eye disease. Do know trachoma?
It's very common here. Very easy to treat.
:08:18
- Are you staying at the hotel?
- No. I just dropped by for tea.
:08:22
On the way to the office.
:08:24
This is really a stroke of luck for me.
:08:27
You're one of the few correspondents
:08:29
who goes out into the field
to see what's happening.
:08:32
Not any more. Besides, I have never
thought of myself as a correspondent.
:08:37
I'm just a reporter.
I offer no point of view.
:08:40
I take no action. I don't get involved.
:08:43
I just report what I see.
:08:44
- But you must have an opinion.
- Even an opinion is a form of action.
:08:49
Still, I'd appreciate...
:08:50
Pyle was hungry for everything
I could tell him about Vietnam
:08:53
and her fight for independence.
:08:55
Why were the French losing the war?
:08:58
And why were the communists winning?
:09:02
Then he saw Phuong.
:09:07
I should have realised how saving
a country and saving a woman
:09:10
could be the same thing
to someone like Pyle.
:09:13
We've got to contain communism.
:09:16
What could be done,
what should be done,
:09:18
what he thought, what he'd read.
:09:21
He made me remember there was a time
:09:23
when I had wanted to make a difference.
:09:25
- To watch liberty snuffed out?
- "Liberty" is a western word.
:09:29
How do you define it
for the Vietnamese?
:09:31
The freedom to choose.
:09:33
OK, you give them that,
they vote and they elect Ho Chi Minh.
:09:37
Things are more complicated
than they seem.
:09:41
- What was that?
- A grenade.
:09:45
- It sounded like a car backfiring.
- A week here, you'll know the difference.
:09:49
It's been a genuine pleasure meeting you.
:09:51
- Maybe we could eat dinner.
- I look forward to it.
:09:54
Great.
:09:56
Good morning.