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...docks and airfields, giving an impression of massive power, then disappear. One of the mysteries of Indo-China is how so much U.S. equipment can be dispersed so quickly and so unnoticeably." Parley in the Village. The erosion was almost too far advanced even for Ngo Dinh Diem, the firm-minded new anti-Communist Prime Minister of Viet Nam (TIME, June 28). Diem arrived in Saigon from Paris last week promising independence, land reform and war against corruption-measures that a few months ago might have changed the course...
Patriots had longed for one strong, honest man to come home and save them-and last week in Paris it was that man, Ngo Dinh Diem, who was setting the new, frugal tone and the pace...
Doctrinal Opposition. Ngo Dinh Diem (pronounced no-din-zim), a young-looking 53, was the son of a grand chamberlain of the Annamite court. Earnest, dedicated, a devout Roman Catholic, Diem graduated top of his class in Viet Nam's School of Administration, worked his way through the French-run Vietnamese civil service, and was appointed Interior Minister at 32, in one of France's early "Vietnamese nationalist governments." But Diem resigned two months later, decrying French hypocrisy and bumble, vowing to lead an ascetic life in doctrinal opposition to the colonial power...
...Whose debates with Viet Nam Foreign Minister Nguyen Quoc Dinh are known to Western newsmen as Dinh-Dong battles...
...right-hand man and organized a Communist underground army of liberation (i.e., liberation from both Japanese and French). In Hanoi, the French threw his wife into jail, with a sentence of 15 years, and there she died. When Giap led his "liberation" troops into the valley of Dinh Ca in 1944, his merciless liquidation of government officials and wealthy farmers gave cruel force to his oft-repeated slogan: "Every minute 100,000 men die all over the world-the life and death of human beings means nothing...