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...city openly aided the Binh Xuyen rebels against Premier Diem's nationalistic government. Almost as soon as the rebellion broke out, French officials in Paris happily, although somewhat prematurely, consigned Diem to the dustbin and attempted to persuade the United States to do likewise. Even Chief of State Bao Dai, France's obedient servant, took time out from his duties on the Riviera to help preside over Diem's downfall. After the embarrassing failure of the attempt to unseat the Premier, the French government has assured the United States that it intends to support Diem, for the moment at least...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rearguard Colonialism | 5/18/1955 | See Source »

...French have claimed that Diem's government does not adequately represent the sentiment of the people of South Viet Nam. Yet Bao Dai surely does not hold a very high place in popular affections, as one can judge from the open hostility with which large segments of the Viet Namesse people greeted his entrance into the recent conflict. And none of the boisterous contending religious sects has shown any great concern for the welfare of the country as a whole. Obviously it is dangerous to place too much reliance upon a single man, as American foreign policy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rearguard Colonialism | 5/18/1955 | See Source »

...Nationalist South Viet Nam (pop. 10½ million), the French, through Bao Dai. still manipulate discredited sects in divide-and-rule techniques against Diem, hoping to undermine the Nationalists and maintain their colonial influence. "A personal failure . . . imposed from outside," the official French radio characterized Diem fortnight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH VIET NAM: U.S. v. the French | 5/16/1955 | See Source »

...Communists will inevitably get the whole country in the all-Viet Nam elections of 1956 somewhat unspecifically provided for at Geneva. The Communists have dropped their anti-French propaganda ; instead the Communists are now vilifying Diem for "the brutal eviction of France," and for not obeying "his superior. Bao...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH VIET NAM: U.S. v. the French | 5/16/1955 | See Source »

...Army would not fight. But the army did fight and Diem did not fall. Back in Saigon last week, Joe Collins called an off-the-record press conference that did not stay off the record long. What South Viet Nam needs, said Collins, is a constitutional monarchy headed by Bao Dai, to provide "a thread of legality." "How are these poor people going to run a republic?" asked Collins. "We even have trouble doing it in the United States sometimes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH VIET NAM: U.S. v. the French | 5/16/1955 | See Source »

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