Word: minh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Communist President Ho Chi Minh took over Haiphong with 10,000 men selected from the elite regiments of Dien-bienphu; frozen-faced, in green uniforms and the inevitable sneakers, they carried identical bouquets of flowers. But when Haiphong was secure and with it the whole of North Viet Nam (pop. 12 million), Ho's orthodox Communist purge got under...
...meetings in which the people would be urged to denounce their own misdeeds and those of their neighbors. As the curtain of Ho's bloody conformity enveloped Haiphong and the Bay of Along, with their coal mines, docks, cement works and grotesquely jagged offshore islands, Ho Chi Minh made arrangements for a victory parade...
...emerged in South Viet Nam. Unless the Western powers are willing to let the country disintegrate politically and fall to the Communists in the north by default, they seem to have little choice but to support the present nationalist government. After all, can France really believe that Ho Chi Minh will be any more pro-French than Premier Diem...
...come out on the winning side, sent greetings to Bao Dai, whom they expect to come back from the French Riviera as his country's "arbiter." There was much talk of the Premier's possible replacements: Phan Huy Quat (whom Diem considers a Fascist) and Ho Thong Minh (a former Defense Minister who quit rather than send the army against rebellious sects...
...Saigon that U.S. support for Ngo Dinh Diem was beginning to wobble. The U.S. was in fact getting increasingly concerned over Diem's capacity to survive, but it still regarded him as the only visible Vietnamese who was incorruptible and nationalist enough to challenge the Communist Ho Chi Minh. At week's end the State Department thought it necessary to reaffirm its support of him. The trouble was, however, that such tokens were not in themselves decisive. "My true American friends want to help." confided Ngo Dinh Diem to an adviser. "But they do it wrongly...