Word: chieftains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...south, in the non-Communist half of Indo-China, the story was dismally different. In Saigon, Premier Ngo Dinh Diem struggled against heavy odds to keep his shaky government alive. Every petty chieftain and palace politician with a few friends and a few guns seemed to be demanding a share of power. Diem had few friends and no guns...
...from boarded and shuttered houses to shrill greetings. Out came banners proclaiming: "Long Live Sino-Russian Friendship!" From housetops red, gold-starred flags of the "Democratic Republic of Viet Nam" broke into view. A Hanoi newspaper, hitherto ardently pro-West, front-paged a huge portrait of Viet Minh Chieftain Ho Chi Minh...
...Communist China, ex-Prime Minister Clement Attlee came back home last week and promptly let the strongest of them fall on the public ear. "The sooner we get rid of Chiang Kai-shek and his troops, the better it will be," said the 71-year-old Labor Party chieftain, who hopes soon again to govern Britain...
Last week President Ramon Magsaysay reinstated Occupation Day under a new and happier name: Philippine-American Day. Among those conspicuously observing it together: Admiral Raymond Spruance, the U.S. Ambassador, and the aging rebel chieftain Aguinaldo, who gave U.S. forces such trouble half a century...
After three hours of marching, the 15,-ooo paraders massed in front of the National Palace. On the balcony, flanking President Jacobo Arbenz, were the warm-up speakers, Labor Chieftain Victor Manuel Gutierrez and Peasant Boss Leonardo Castillo Flores. both Reds. They plugged solidarity with Viet Minh and similar causes. Arbenz took over from there: ¶On the H-bomb: all the tests must be halted, atomic weapons must be banned. ¶On the recent U.S. note asking a $15 million indemnity to the U.S.-owned United Fruit Co. for 233,973 acres of expropriated banana lands: "Blackmail...