Word: bao
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these knew what the Occidental Press had not bothered to find out. Behind the youth who is now Emperor of Annam, docile Vinh Tuy, whose reign is known as Bao Dai. is a dynasty scarcely 150 years old. The preceding dynasty was a figurehead for two powerful families. One of these was the family of Nguyen. With the aid of a French bishop...
...true to the memory of great Pigneau de Béhaine. The Imperial line did not. It massacred great quantities of Annamite Catholics, including its own distant Nguyen kin, and brought more French troops tramping across the rice fields into the Imperial City of Huê. Prince Vinh Tuy (Bao Dai), educated from nine to 19 in France, was France's crowning accomplishment. And it was no accident that the French Resident General of Annam allowed him to fall in with pretty Nguyen Huu Hao, his very, very distant kin 150 years back. Her ancestors had been Catholic martyrs...
Pope Pius XI smiled last week and back to Annam in French Indo-China, to little Marie Nguyen Hu Hao, 18, Chinese Catholic betrothed to Bao Dai. Buddhist Emperor of Annam, went tidings of comfort and joy. Marie's question to the Holy Father: "Would the Church sponsor her Buddhist-Catholic marriage if she gave her girl children to the Church, her boy children to the Buddhist dynasty of Annam" (TIME, March 19)? The Pope's answer, announced unofficially from Rome by way of Paris...
Last week Bao Dai gave vent to his Imperial feelings. "The future Queen, reared like us in France, combines in her person the graces of the West and the charms of the East. We who have had occasion to meet her believe that she is worthy to be our companion and our equal. We are certain by her conduct and example that she fully merits the title of First Woman of the Empire...
...little Marie Nguyen Hu Hao's views proved troublesome. She is a Catholic, wants to remain one. Bao...