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...with a badge bearing crossed arrows and knife blade, and the legend De Oppresso Liber-roughly, To Liberate from Oppression. It is General Harkins' demanding job to fuse these few thousand experts with the willing but incompletely trained armed forces of South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem-170,000 regulars, 68,000 Civil Guard troops, and 70,000 Self-Defense Forces...
...peasants remain more friendly to the Viet Cong than to the pro-Western government of President Ngo Dinh Diem, and the peasants are the key to victory...
What worries many U.S. observers is the divide-and-rule philosophy of President Diem, who is suspicious of any possible concentration of power against him. The fortified-villages operation, for instance, is split between two ministerial committees, one headed by Diem's powerful brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu, the other by one of Diem's secretaries of state; there is no liaison between the committees and very little within them-six or seven separate plans for rural reconstruction have been drawn up, and none are really working. Moreover, U.S. advisers complain that units of the South Vietnamese army...
...come by the chief of the province." Why had he been moved? "I don't know." Had the Viet Cong harmed him? "No, no. I saw them, but they never bothered me." Night Attack. The peasant's answers indicate the enormity of the problem facing President Ngo Dinh Diem's government. Dependent on peasants' help, the Viet Cong often work with them in the fields to win their loyalty. All too often, this approach works wonders...
Most non-American observers of the Vietnamese scene in 1954 considered that South Vietnam was doomed. Pres. Ngo Dinh Diem appeared to be a creation of the U.S., pulled out of the hat at the very last minute. In contrast Ho Chi Minh was the revered leader of the Vietnamese independence movement. At the time of the Geneva Treaty, the Viet Minh had considerable popular support. Combining their prestige as leading nationalists with successes at social reform in the parts of Vietnam they controlled, there was little doubt that they would be successful in the general elections to be held...