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...brush-clean, flag-bedecked Belgrade last week came an emperor, two kings and two princes, three foreign ministers, six prime ministers and nine presidents.-Representing 23 countries, they had been invited by Yugoslavia's President Tito for a Conference of Unaligned Nations...
Study in Contrasts. Sitting around a huge oval table in the Federal People's Assembly as they listened to the speeches, the delegates presented a sharp study in contrasts. Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia was grave, aloof, sad-eyed, a figare out of the past. Some were old antagonists: Ethiopia and Somalia have been squabbling over borders for years. Some were mint-new friends: Nasser and Tunisia's Bourguiba met at Belgrade, having patched up their bitter, four-year-old quarrel. Even in their approach to the cold war, the delegates sharply differed: U.A.R.'s Nasser...
...paintings to illuminated manuscripts, from ivories and capitals to frescoes from Catalonia, mosaics from Italy, enamels from Belgium, wood carvings from Norway. "The difficulty." wrote one Spanish critic, "is to know where to stop and look." In one display was a polished bronze reliquary containing a portrait of the Emperor Barbarossa. In another was a praying Madonna done in mosaics by an artist who might have received his training in Byzantium. There was a robe that originally belonged to a Moorish king but was used by Thomas a Becket as a chasuble. Thus had the crosscurrents of civilization...
...even depend on a loyal army, since his French-trained military chief. General Nguyen Van Hinh, was personally hostile and forever plotting to take over the reins of government himself. A private gang, the notorious Binh Xuyen, actually operated the national police, having bought the "concession" from Puppet Emperor Bao Dai for $1,000,000. On top of all this, two powerful quasi-religious sects, the Cao Dai and the Hoa Hao, controlled large parts of the countryside, opposing Diem's regime and enforcing their will with well-armed private armies of their...
Soundproofed Brother. One task remained. Diem was determined to remove Emperor Bao Dai, who still technically held his position as Chief of State. In October 1955, Diem organized a referendum to that end. The results: 5,722,000 votes for Diem, 63,000 for Bao Dai. The Republic of South Viet Nam was proclaimed, and Premier Ngo Dinh Diem became its first President...