Word: diem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...latest intelligence data show that there was no northern infiltration into South Vietnam through 1946" should read "1964." That also might be misconstrued; the point was that cadre who returned from the North after 1954 were southerners who had withdrawn according to the Geneva accords and who returned when Diem's regime violated those accords. That again was to show that the U.S. is fighting against a popular and indigenous movement in the South... Albert L. Maher '63-2 May 2nd Committee
...peasants were poor by our standards and poor enough by their own standards to be good targets for propaganda from the North. By Asian standards they were well off. Their crops were bountiful. The maximum interest rate allowed by Diem's hard-to-enforce laws was 25 percent, only one-quarter to one-eighth that generally charged in the prosperous Philippines. The May 2nd Committee has remarked that when this rate was set, many landlords raised their rents to this figure. This is true. But in the context of South-east Asia it is almost incredible that the rates would...
...Diem's policies in opposition to the requirements of containment reflected his prejudices as an authoritarian, a militant Catholic and a social conservative. In all of his programs, he was actively supported by the U.S. government. In addition, acting in accordance with American interests, he cut off trade with North Vietnam and subjected South Vietnamese industry to the debilitating effect of the influx of competing American textiles and other products under the commodity import program...
...implementation of Diem's agrarian "reform" measures in 1957 coincided with the institution of a wholesale terror campaign throughout the countryside. These programs reinstated the landlords who had been removed by the Viet Minh, reinstituted rent, and at the same time failed to provide the peasants with any security of land tenure. All those peasants who had benefited from the Viet Minh reforms or who had supported the resistance movement against the French were considered "subversives" and, like Diem's other political opponents, were either murdered or subjected to torture and confinement in concentration camps...
...peasant' victims of this terrorism revolted. They were led by former members of the Viet Minh who lived in South Vietnam and by leaders of other political groups attacked by Diem This movement now controls most of South Vietnam. There is no evidence that the Hanol regime is supplying economic or military aid to the South Vietnamese movement. In October, 1963, the Baltimore Sun reported an official U.S. estimate of the sources of Viet Cong arms, which indicated that only one out of fifty weapons came from the Communist bloc. Most of the equipment was American and had been captured...