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...Diem regime in Viet Nam has been "in the wind" for months, as TIME readers know. Last September, in a five-column story, TIME discussed the dissatisfaction in the army and illustrated it with photographs of five generals and one colonel. Our top two pictures were of Generals Minh and Don, who led last week's coup. In Saigon, TIME Correspondent Murray Gart watched the attack on Diem's palace lying flat on his belly on a rooftop less than 200 yards away. Knowing the chaos in communications that he could expect, and the delays that military censorship...
...receive some support from North Vietnam, but not enough to keep them alive and expanding in the face of government forces at least ten times as numerous. The fiercest fighting is south of Saigon, hundreds of miles from the North Vietnamese border and the end of the Ho Chi Minh trail, the supposed supply route. Even the American commander in the country, General Paul D Harkins, has conceded that the Vietcong are virtually self-sustaining...
...Peking time, Wednesday, July 21, 1954, the war in Indo-China came to an end. The result had been a foregone conclusion since the ignominious French defeat by the Communist Viet Minh at Dienbienphu two months earlier. Even before that, diplomats from nine nations, halfway round the world in Geneva, had been working feverishly to hammer out the final peace settlement. Fearful that high-level participation in Geneva might put the U.S. in the position of approving a sellout to the Reds, President Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles were hesitant about endorsing the conference. But when French...
...threatened to resign-a move that would have brought the conference to a grinding halt and continued a war that could not be won. Prodded by this ultimatum, the conference finally agreed on terms that would partition Viet Nam at the 17th parallel. The agreement gave the Viet Minh the industrial North, leaving the government of Ngo Dinh Diem with the rice-rich South. New military bases were prohibited, and civilians were permitted to leave one zone to take up residence in the other (nearly 800,000 North Vietnamese moved to the South, but only a few thousand southerners moved...
...China is also wooing its yellow and brown brothers in the Asian Communist parties, with considerable success in Japan, Ceylon and, of all places, New Zealand. North Viet Nam's wispy leader, Ho Chi Minh, is ambiguous about his loyalties, but must reflect that Red China is next door while Russia is far away. Indonesia's Red chief, D. N. Aidit, walks a zigzag line, and Burma, typically, has two Communist factions-one for Mao, one for Khrushchev...