Word: diem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Having followed your coverage of Viet Nam and the Ngo family for better than a year. I find an aspect of Diem totally ignored. French rule here only ended nine years ago. Diem refused to serve the interests of the French, and perhaps has no more willingness to serve the American Government. Before becoming President, he was a man of steadfast principle: that he would only serve a free and independent Viet...
...accord with the conclusions reached lately by independent correspondents sent over by TIME and other media. Thus you reported in the Sept. 20 issue that "the Buddhist rebellion was directed by monks who were also consummate politicians, who were less interested in redressing religious injustices than in overthrowing the Diem regime." Father O'Connor reached somewhat the same conclusion in an Aug. 2 dispatch...
...statement (Sept. 20) that the resident correspondents "seldom miss a chance to overemphasize the ruling family's Roman Catholicism," Father O'Connor reported as far back as June 24 that "some foreign press reports continue to use expressions like 'Roman Catholic-dominated government' and 'Diem's Catholic minority government,' which Catholics here feel are inaccurate, unfair to the church, and an incitement, however unintentional, to religious animosity...
George Saunders '60, a staff writer for Militant, declared that the Nhus' land reform is primarily a duplication of the earlier French program. Neither the French nor the Diem regime have executed their reforms, be added, while the Viet-Cong have gained power by effectively carrying out their promises to the peasants...
...guerrillas would agree to a cease fire contingent upon provision for internationally supervised elections (and their propaganda supports this) American withdrawal of military aid would force Diem either to accept the elections or to leave. In any case this possibility should be at least explored. The status quo is intolerable...