Word: dinh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more populous northern half is being welded together with ruthless Communist efficiency; the southern or free half is rent by feuds, and impotently governed by its honest but ineffective Premier Ngo Dinh Diem. Last week, in an effort to restore some order in South Viet Nam, President Eisenhower dispatched former U.S. Army Chief of Staff General J. Lawton Collins to Indo-China as his special ambassador. It will be Joe Collins' task to try to resolve the feuding between Diem and his generals, to coordinate and overhaul all U.S. aid to the tortured nation, to combat "the dangerous forces...
...have been following with great interest the course of developments in Viet Nam," wrote President Eisenhower to Premier Ngo Dinh Diem of South Viet Nam. Acknowledging the difficulties of presiding over a country "weakened by a long and exhausting war," Eisenhower nonetheless urged Diem to undertake "needed reforms." In return, he held out the prospect of U.S. aid "given directly to your government"- in other words, aid that did not first pass through French hands. It was a friendly, mild-seeming note, yet behind it lay a gathering quarrel between the U.S. and France...
...south, in the non-Communist half of Indo-China, the story was dismally different. In Saigon, Premier Ngo Dinh Diem struggled against heavy odds to keep his shaky government alive. Every petty chieftain and palace politician with a few friends and a few guns seemed to be demanding a share of power. Diem had few friends and no guns...
...struggle was between Premier Ngo Dinh Diem and the army's Chief of Staff Nguyen Van Hinh. and it had deep roots. Premier Diem, for years a voluntary exile from his land while the French ran it, had lost face when Geneva partitioned Viet Nam over his protests, lost followers when partition left most of his Roman Catholic supporters in Communist hands, lost public confidence because of his reluctance to take men from southern Viet Nam (where he himself is little known) into his Cabinet. On the other side, he and the anti-French nationalists around him distrusted handsome...
...sodden rot of defeat, surrender and demoralization is eating its way through the fragile fabric of earnest little Prime Minister Ngo Dinh Diem's hard-trying but still disorganized South Viet Nam government. Diem's power probably does not extend as far as 30 kilometers from Saigon itself, say some knowledgeable foreign observers, and in many instances not that far. At Mytho, at Baclieu, at Vinhlong and numberless other towns and villages in the south, Viet Minh control is complete and recognized-the presence of nominal officials of the Vietnamese government notwithstanding...