Word: minh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into the battle an incorruptibility even greater and his own record of a lifetime's opposition to French rule and influence. "There are only two real leaders in Viet Nam," Ho's chief of staff, General Vo Nguyen Giap, recognized some time ago. "One is Ho Chi Minh. The other is Ngo Dinh Diem. There is no room in the country for both...
...reserved, talk too much by nuance. We ought to learn to be rude in our talk like the Americans, and get things done." Diem rarely speaks harshly of fellow Vietnamese who are Communists, because he hopes to convert them; he intends to oppose the twisted dialectic of Ho Chi Minh with the lotus of morality. Yet he recognizes that Communists are not creatures to be toyed with. "You must be sure to kill when you hunt tigers," he once said. "A wounded tiger becomes a mankiller to get food...
Triple Negative. During World War II and its aftermath, the Japanese, the French and Ho Chi Minh's Communists all fought one another for Indo-China (TIME, Nov. 22); all three wanted support from Nationalist Diem but he refused them all because none of them stood for "true independence...
...nationalist Ngo Dinh clan, raiding the mansion at Hue and burning Diem's collection of 10,000 books. The Communists arrested Diem; they took hold of Diem's respected elder brother, Ngo Dinh Khoi and buried him alive. But only four months later Ho Chi Minh, concluding that he needed the backing of some pure nationalists, summoned Ngo Dinh Diem from prison. "Come and live with me at the palace...
...vote of Ho's 12 million northerners, packed by tyranny, outcounts the free but divided vote of the 10¶ million southerners. But Geneva also provided that the elections must be "free" and "by secret ballot." On July 20, if they feel strong enough to buck Ho Chi Minh, the U.S.-backed nationalists can make a case for postponing the elections, or put them off altogether unless they get ironclad assurance of 1) proper supervision at the polls and 2) the right of nationalists to campaign in the north and try to woo away some...