Word: bao
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bao Dai himself was in the French spa of Vittel last week, taking the waters. He had no comment to make ("Sorry"). He would probably never return to Viet...
Diem considered resignation, decided to fight, and likewise persuaded his Foreign Minister to stay on. Diem wanted time and a chance to wipe out the memory of the graft, inefficiency and indifference of the Bao Dai regime,* wanted time to spark an anti-Communist revolution based upon full independence and land reform...
...Indo-China war's third year, the French installed Bao Dai, playboy descendant of old Annamite kings, as Viet Nam's chief of state. But Bao Dai usually complied with French demands, and therefore got almost no public support, while Moscow Servant Ho Chi Minh was often admired simply because he was anti-French. Not until last month did Viet Nam get a genuinely nationalist Prime Minister, Ngo Dinh Diem - probably too late to make up for France's long refusal to prepare the Vietnamese for self-government and self-defense, probably too late to save...
...Communist Ho Chi Minh. stoutly averring that he would no more cooperate with Communists than with the French. (A few months later, the Communists murdered one of Diem's five brothers, reportedly by burying him alive.) In August 1949 Diem also refused to join the Vietnamese government of Bao Dai, insisting upon complete independence for Viet Nam and a free hand for himself. "He must have his own way always," said one of his associates. And a second Vietnamese added: "He is a narrow...
...abusive, arrogant, mocking. Clearly intending to bring down the La-niel government, he complained of Bi-dault's "refusal or evasion of negotiations" with the Viet Minh itself, taunted him with the cost to France in men and money of a "colonial war." He charged that the Bao Dai government had no popular support. He claimed that the Communists already controlled three-quarters of Viet Nam, half of Laos, a smaller but increasing part of Cambodia. As for Dienbienphu, "Who can deny that the defense of Dienbienphu was in the main carried out not by the French...