Word: dais
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cover story on Indo-China is nauseating beyond belief. "The U.S. now has ... a new ally in the cold war." Who is this ally? The Emperor Bao Dai? A man who grovels before the oppressors of his people ... a traitor by any standards, who must be regarded with contempt or indifference by the majority of his people...
...support of the Emperor Bao Dai is . . also a repudiation of our own ideals. This action of our State Department and the slant in your article stink to the skies...
...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...
Most serious failure is the sluggish pace in recruiting a Viet Nam army. Bao Dai's government has thus far assembled only four battalions, about...
Another disappointment has been Bao Dai's effort to enlist capable ministers and lower-echelon administrators. Partly this is because so many Vietnamese are fence-sitters or fear the terror of Viet Minh agents. Partly it is a consequence of French failure, in the past and at present, to train enough natives to take over the government. Bao Dai seems to be counting on U.S. pressure to loosen up the French in this respect...