The crimes committed by the North Vietnamese regime against the Vietnamese people were minor compared to the crimes committed by the Khmer Rouge against the Cambodians, but for us on the left they were emotionally far more significant.

James Donald (18 May 1917 - 3 August 1993) was a Scottish actor. He played Mr. Cronin's The Citadel and appeared regularly in many other television dramas in the UK and US as well as on stage.

His work in the theatre included Noël Coward's Present Laughter (1943) which starred Coward himself and The Eagle with Two Heads (1947) You Never Can Tell (1948) and The Heiress (1949) with Ralph Richardson Peggy Ashcroft and Donald Sinden. Nicholson's (Alec Guinness) efforts to build the bridge in order to show up his Japanese captors in the blockbuster classic film The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957). Donald was born in Aberdeen and made his first professional stage appearance in the late-1930s having been educated at Rossall School on Lancashire's Fylde coast.