Word: diem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quiet U.S. nervousness, Diem at week's end announced that martial law, which has been in effect for almost a month, will end this week, foreshadowing a possible return to normality in South Viet...
Official Consternation. At the Interparliamentary Union Conference in Belgrade, where she represented South Viet Nam, Mme. Nhu stole the show with her graceful pink aodai. There was fire in her eyes and in her words. The Diem government would never yield to "perfidious blackmailing attacks," she exclaimed. What about the concern for South Viet Nam's Buddhists voiced by the Vatican? Pope Paul VI is too "easily worried," retorted Mme. Nhu. Her acid remark supplemented earlier comments on the same subject on French television: "As a Catholic, I am only required to believe in the dogmas of my religion...
...conference to a grinding halt and continued a war that could not be won. Prodded by this ultimatum, the conference finally agreed on terms that would partition Viet Nam at the 17th parallel. The agreement gave the Viet Minh the industrial North, leaving the government of Ngo Dinh Diem with the rice-rich South. New military bases were prohibited, and civilians were permitted to leave one zone to take up residence in the other (nearly 800,000 North Vietnamese moved to the South, but only a few thousand southerners moved North). Elections to unify Viet Nam were supposed...
...January 1955, the U.S., at Diem's request, took over the primary responsibility for the training of the Vietnamese army as part of Dulles' effort under the SEATO treaty to curb Communist subversion in Southeast Asia. Though the U.S. poured in lavish economic aid, the total U.S. military strength assigned to the Military Assistance Group did not exceed 2,000 men. But as the Communist Viet Cong guerrillas began increasing their terrorist attacks against the government, the U.S. started to get seriously concerned. In October 1961, General Maxwell D. Taylor visited South Viet Nam, came back with...
Such reporting is prone to distortions. The complicated greys of a complicated country fade into oversimplified blacks and whites. To Saigon's Western press corps, President Ngo Dinh Diem is stubborn and stupid, dominated by his brother and sister-in-law. As a result, the correspondents have taken sides against all three; they seldom miss a chance to overemphasize the ruling family's Roman Catholicism. The press corps' attitude automatically assigns justice and sympathy to the side of the Buddhists, who are well aware of their favored position. Before the first bonze set fire to himself...