Word: buddhists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Princeton, she complained that "they showed bad manners-very bad manners-at Harvard." But Old Nassau was not much more polite. Some 250 pickets, including six Buddhist monks from a monastery in Freewood Acres, N.J., refugees from Tibet and Russia, turned up to razz her. Protested Mme. Nhu: "You're not helping us by hissing or booing us. Tell us precisely what's wrong with...
Before anyone could say "Buddhist," however, Mme. Nhu whisked off to Washington, spent much of her time there talking about precisely what's wrong with the U.S.* "I have not met your Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge," she told an audience of some 800 which jammed the Women's National Press Club. "But from a distance he seems more mysterious than an Asian." The Kennedy Administration was full of liberals, she said, and while "liberals aren't red yet, they're pink." As for the U.S. decision to withhold some economic aid from the Diem regime...
...fortune." Said she: "I have a very rich vocabulary, but that word I have never used." But a couple of days later she reversed herself, said that she had indeed used the words-though in a complimentary sense, to denote "self-made heroes." Explaining her macabre comment about "these Buddhist barbecues" after the suicides by fire began, she said that her daughter had overheard a U.S. soldier use the phrase at a Saigon hot-dog stand. "It sounded like a perfectly harmless Americanism," said...
...rarely considered whether Communist dictatorships or leftist "guided democracies" violate human rights. But last week the General Assembly concerned itself with "the violation of human rights" in South Viet Nam, as represented by the Diem government's treatment of the Buddhists. However reprehensible and clumsy the regime's role in the Buddhist crisis may be, many of its accusers were scarcely models of democracy...
Even Diem's severest critics in Saigon concede that there was no serious religious persecution until the present troubles began, and that the Buddhist movement has become a political force dedicated to Diem's overthrow. His regime meanwhile freed 125 Buddhists and sympathizers in Hue who were jailed after last August's riots; how many others are still being held is not known...