Word: diem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...difficult to put any other interpretation on their actions during the sudden governmental crisis in Saigon. French colonials in the city openly aided the Binh Xuyen rebels against Premier Diem's nationalistic government. Almost as soon as the rebellion broke out, French officials in Paris happily, although somewhat prematurely, consigned Diem to the dustbin and attempted to persuade the United States to do likewise. Even Chief of State Bao Dai, France's obedient servant, took time out from his duties on the Riviera to help preside over Diem's downfall. After the embarrassing failure of the attempt to unseat...
Over him and Diem there raged a battle that was bigger than both of them. It deeply involved the U.S. and the French...
...Nationalist South Viet Nam (pop. 10½ million), the French, through Bao Dai. still manipulate discredited sects in divide-and-rule techniques against Diem, hoping to undermine the Nationalists and maintain their colonial influence. "A personal failure . . . imposed from outside," the official French radio characterized Diem fortnight...
...loyal enforcement" of the Geneva treaty* as if they expect that the Communists will inevitably get the whole country in the all-Viet Nam elections of 1956 somewhat unspecifically provided for at Geneva. The Communists have dropped their anti-French propaganda ; instead the Communists are now vilifying Diem for "the brutal eviction of France," and for not obeying "his superior...
...Presence. Presidential Envoy J. Lawton Collins, who has had more experience in soldiering than in statesmanship, reported home three weeks ago, that Diem was sure to fall, and the Vietnamese Army would not fight. But the army did fight and Diem did not fall. Back in Saigon last week, Joe Collins called an off-the-record press conference that did not stay off the record long. What South Viet Nam needs, said Collins, is a constitutional monarchy headed by Bao Dai, to provide "a thread of legality." "How are these poor people going to run a republic?" asked Collins...