Word: bao
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Viet Nam side, Bao Dai's timid government has put some muscle into its administration. This week two strong men with contrasting backgrounds-one has worked with the Communists, the other always against them-were filling new jobs. But both brought the same message: the Communists, they said, were very tough people, and to beat them one had to be tougher still...
...decided to escape when the U.S. recognized Bao Dai. You don't realize how important that was for us. I have always been a nationalist, never a Communist. Until the Americans recognized the Emperor, I was not convinced that Viet Nam was really going to be independent. Many others would like to escape. But even important functionaries may not travel without a special permit. Only my ministerial rank allowed me to make a wide tour of inspection in northern Tonkin. I managed to get to the village where I was born, hid out there, and surrendered when a French...
...Communist propaganda sneers at Bao Dai's phantom government, but nothing could be more phantomlike than Ho Chi Minh's cabinet. When we were not in session, no two cabinet ministers were allowed to be within 30 miles of each other. Cabinet meetings were held once a month, in different places in the mountains. It was quite usual for a minister to bicycle 60 miles to a meeting...
...Excerpt from TIME'S story: "All in all, the new U.S. ally [Emperor Bao Dai] in Southeast Asia is a weak reed. And the alliance is as ironic as anything in history. For the same U.S. Government which abandoned the Chinese Nationalists because they were not good enough was committed ... to defend a playboy emperor and the worst and almost the last example of white man's armed imperialism in Asia...
...TIME'S May 29 cover picture of Viet Nam's Bao Dai: Is this a touched-up photograph or a painting? If it isn't a photograph, my hat is off to Boris Chaliapin; if it is, shame on TIME for not saying...