Word: dinh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...advice should have been taken more to heart. But the U.S. dilemma was that the French were in charge in Indo-China. A shooting war was on, and the central problem was to save the land from Communist absorption. While the tragedy played toward its climax, disappointed Ngo Dinh Diem sadly took himself off to a monastery, in Belgium, there to live and wait in a cell. "We must continue the search for God's Kingdom and His justice," Diem wrote home, "all else will come of itself...
...time to serve might be at hand. He quit the monastery and moved into a garret in Paris. The French, in part because they needed someone on whom to unload catastrophe, offered Diem the Viet Nam premiership, with their first acceptable promise of independence. On June 15, 1954, Ngo Dinh Diem took the job and headed back to Saigon. "We don't know where we're going," said one of his aides, contemplating chaos, "but the captain is reliable and our boat is clean...
...accomplishments are minor compared to what remains to be done in attaining law and order and building public confidence. Stubborn and negative-minded, Diem disquiets some of his countrymen by his continued withdrawal, and by his tendency to lean for advice more on three of his brothers, Bishop Ngo Dinh Thuc, Ngo Dinh Luyen and Ngo Dinh Nhu, than on his Cabinet. His reluctance to delegate authority has led him to fantastic time-consuming pettiness. Samples: recently he took over himself the granting of all entry and exit visas and the scrutiny of all currency exchange applications...
Haircuts & Chickens. It is one of the discomfiting truths of South Viet Nam that not all are sure they prefer the unfulfilled hopes of non-Communist rule to the confidently touted certainties of Red government. For Premier Ngo Dinh Diem there is a hard shell of resistance to crack. In one characteristic village of the south last week, some of the people demonstrated what the problem...
...sure the Communists will not return," a village elder suggested, "then the people will turn against them. But how can we be sure?" The answer lies in great part beyond the beleaguered man in the Freedom Palace of Saigon. "The Vietnamese people have the will," said Ngo Dinh Diem's ambassador to Washington, "but only the U.S. has the might...