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...backward nations of Southeast Asia. New paint gleamed everywhere. Old buildings and the sidewalks before them were scrubbed as clean as any in Amsterdam. Mayor Nguyen Phu Hai had sternly forbidden his citizens to spit in public or walk even partially naked in the streets. Energetic President Ngo Dinh Diem's capital had come a long way from the fear and misery of the days when every sidewalk café was guarded by heavy wire mesh from the grenades of passing terrorists...
...anti-American manifestations seemed designed mainly to embarrass President Ngo Dinh Diem's anti-Communist Viet Nam government, one source said...
Stories of the Devil King's men flew from village to village. Some said they covered themselves with tiger skins, others talked of the Devil King's sorcerer, who carried the embalmed heads of two virgins in a leather bag. When a detachment of President Ngo Dinh Diem's infantry raided one bandit hideout near the Cambodian border, they found a copy of orders from the Devil King instructing his men to kill, sow confusion among the peasantry and disturb rural security. They were told that anyone who killed ten persons would become able...
Just before South Viet Nam's doughty President Ngo Dinh Diem set off last week on a four-day state visit to neighboring Thailand, he was tactially informed that his favorite white sharkskin suit would not be proper at the Royal Thai court. He dispatched an aide on an emergency trip to Hong Kong, but when Diem took one look at the Western-style cutaway, striped pants and grey top hat that the aide brought back, he snorted in disgust and refused to wear them...
...moral impact is beginning to be felt, e.g., in the Republic of South Viet Nam, which U.S. aid and Vietnamese enterprise have transformed in less than three years from a war-ravaged country into a notable anti-Communist bastion. There doughty President Ngo Dinh Diem (TIME, May 20) is now lifting a standard that attracts many another Asian leader: he is providing remarkable proof that economic planning can be successfully combined with the classical values of Asia...