Word: diem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Premier Ngo Dinh Diem, this sort of thing was an offense both to his religious principles (he is Roman Catholic) and to Viet Nam's dignity. Last January he closed down the Grand Monde and the rest of the city's public gambling joints...
...there could be little doubt of the answer. Diem's supporters, exuberantly forecasting a 99-to-1 victory for their
...Almost no one took the streets to say anything in Bao Dai's favor. What was there to say? On election day, even his mother voted against the fat, foolish emperor. Reporters, touring the polls, could find no evidence of chicanery. There was no need for any. Premier Diem got his 98.2% of the vote. Only a few thousand among the 5,828,000 ballots were found to be invalid, a crushing defeat for the Communists, who had urged that defaced ballots be cast as a gesture of protest...
Text for Democracy. The victor in the elections was far from silent. Ngo Dinh Diem, a bachelor under a self-imposed oath of celibacy and a Roman Catholic among a predominantly Buddhist people, proclaimed South Viet Nam a republic and himself its first President. To the boom of a naval cannonade and amid a torchlight procession and fireworks, 54-year-old Diem spoke from the steps of Saigon's Independence Palace, flanked by his Cabinet, a battery of generals, two Catholic bishops and two Buddhist prelates. Said the new President: "Democ racy is not a group of texts...
...French government, having done its considerable best to discredit and destroy Diem, now granted him its official recognition. So did Britain. He already had U.S. blessing and he quickly got U.S. diplomatic recognition. For Diem, the road to respect among the world's powers had been an uncharted, chuckholed, booby-trapped and lonely right of way, along which he had had to fight off the French, the Communists, obstreperous religious sects, pirate syndicates, and an indifferent and suspicious people. He had come a long way in 16 months...