Word: dais
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some areas, the Reds show the people booklets containing pictures of Ho Chi Minh and Bao Dai, ordering them to sign under the picture of their choice. There are few signatures for Bao Dai.* More effective still are the propaganda speeches and the carefully phrased whispers of the women who press the Communist advantage relentlessly. "We are winning," they whisper. "We are winning. Do you want to be with us, or with the French and the foreigners? The white men have surrendered half of your country; they will surrender the other half too. Do not trust them. Come with...
...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...
...Southport, England, Australia's Peter Thomson, 24, became the youngest winner of the British Open golf tournament since Bobby Jones won at the same age in 1926. Thomson's 283 was just one stroke under Runners-up Bobby Locke, Syd Scott and Dai Rees, all bunched at 284. Closest American was Jim Turnesa, who tied for fifth with...
...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...