Word: documentation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though most of the Constituent Assembly members are Diem supporters, they did not accept his proposals supinely or find easy agreement among themselves. A relatively liberal document, the constitution nonetheless takes a realistic view of South Viet Nam's weakened national condition and the internal and external Communist threat to its security. It provides freedom of the press, speech and assembly-but gives Diem the right to suspend these freedoms in emergencies during the next four years. It denies Diem's demand to be allowed to dissolve the National Assembly at will-but provides him with a strong...
Under the provisions of the constitution, Premier Diem will become South Viet Nam's first President, for a six-year term, and the assembly members who forged the document will become the nation's first National Assemblymen, for four-year terms...
...been given an inkling of all this earlier. At cell and district meetings couriers from the Central Committee have appeared with a copy of the speech. Short excerpts have been read, which members have been warned not to write down, and the courier has then returned with his precious document. Gradually, from an initial sense of shock, party members have been brought to a state of high hope and expectancy for the future. Last week the Central Committee evidently thought that the time had come to extend its propaganda drive to take in nonparty Russians, and had chosen this oblique...
...lengthy article in his party journal Hondo Operaio, Nenni called the Khrushchev speech "the gravest and most dramatic document in the Communist literature of the world." Through most of his article Nenni refers to Khrushchev as "K," as though he were a symbolic figure in a Kafka fantasy. "From the revelations of K," says Nenni, "we learn that the guest of the Kremlin appears to have been practically a maniac who, like the figure of the dictator in which Charlie Chaplin portrayed Hitler, 'drew plans on a map of the world.' K cannot contain his laughter...
...Cincinnati's public schools, the papers of the clean-cut, 38-year-old Negro seemed in perfect order. True enough, Henry Fordham seemed nervous when interviewed. He was, reported the board of interviewers, "not too coherent," and he used "big words, often incorrectly." But he did have a document to prove that he had a degree from Westminster College in Cochranville, Pa. He had-or so his papers indicated-taught in Newark, Del., and he had testimonials from a John Wagner at Pennsylvania's Lincoln University and from Professor Robert Hillyer of the University of Delaware. The board...