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...destiny. The U.S. in a sense is lumping those two missions into one simultaneous undertaking in South Viet Nam. In addition to its millions and its prestige, Washington invested the talents of 1,000 Americans in the country, with the ex-Army chief of staff, General J. Lawton Collins, as the top U.S. emissary. Among them: for land reform, Wolf Ladejinsky, the celebrated Agriculture Department expert who did the land reform job in postwar Japan; for maneuvering against the Communists, Colonel Edward Lansdale, the officer who played such a helpful role in the rise of Philippines President Ramon Magsaysay that...
...amount of American aid can guarantee the freedom of Viet Nam," said U.S. Presidential Envoy Joseph Lawton Collins last month, "unless the Vietnamese are determined to be free." Last week General Collins flew back to Washington bearing news of considerable Vietnamese determination. "Things are looking up in South Viet Nam," reported the New York Herald Tribune's Homer Bigart at the same time. "The odds on holding the place, quoted at no better than one in ten a month ago, are now reduced to one in five." One of the reasons for the changing odds-adverse though they still...
...feel that only the immature student would resent guidance that does nothing if not allow him more free time to develop his independent interests. Newell Bryan, Robecca Faxon, Nelia Gray, Anne Kliby, and Sue Lawton...
...European defense to an international arms control agency; for his part, Mendès could not promise that U.S. matériel would not be used in putting down the North African violence. One major item-U.S. aid for South Viet Nam-was postponed until after General Lawton Collins, the special U.S. ambassador, has reported from Saigon...
Silver-haired General J. Lawton Collins, 58, knew that Indo-China was the graveyard of military reputations. In Saigon, at President Eisenhower's behest, to determine whether the demoralized free half of Viet Nam could be saved from the Communists, Collins resisted a newsman's commiserations. "I've already had one military career," he said unworriedly...