Word: minh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Diem intended his second tour to shame Communist President Ho Chi Minh, who has barely stirred from his Hanoi palace since last fall. Diem's second big ovation confirmed that his strength lies increasingly among nationalist-minded villagers who suffered Communist depredations during the war, rather than among the aperitif drinkers in French Saigon...
...arrested a former Minister of the Interior on charges of extorting $120,000 from local Chinese businessmen. Diem scheduled a spectacular public trial, in which his prosecutors intend to show how the ex-Minister's policemen arrested wealthy Chinese and threatened to deport them "for helping the Viet Minh" unless the Chinese paid blackmail. Diem wants to use the trial to herald a big new campaign against corruption in demoralized South Viet Nam. There are faint signs that his austere new nationalism is beginning to catch an apathetic public's fancy. But Diem still...
...disaster in Indo-China left no doubt that three Communists were the Men of the Year in Asia. The victory belonged to Communist China's Premier Mao Tse-tung, his Foreign Minister Chou Enlai, and to Ho Chi Minh, the leader of the Viet Minh. For a considerable measure of recovery from the Indo-China disaster, the free world could thank John Foster Dulles. First Dulles hammered out and pushed through the Manila Pact, which committed eight nations to take joint action against subversion and aggression in Asia...
...VIET MINH GAINING SUPPORT BY DECEIT
Last week in Hanoi, Sainteny proudly unveiled something he called "an agreement," but which Ho Chi Minh referred to as a "joint declaration between the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam (a self-styled propaganda title) and a delegation of French economic experts." French business firms could "retain present form," it was proclaimed, but only subject to Ho's "sovereignty and legislation." French products could be "freely" sold, but Ho's government orders "must be executed first." French businessmen could "freely" send profits abroad, but the percentages and other such details would be worked out later "by common agreement...