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...Major General Duong Van Minh, a tough, husky type whose mouth is filled with gold-capped broken teeth and who is regarded as one of the best officers in South Viet Nam. He is known as "Big" Minh, to distinguish him from Brigadier General Tran Van Minh, or "Little" Minh, no kin. He has no command at present, but serves as Diem's "military assistant...
...Minh government did requisition my house and my law office in Hanoi in September 1945, immediately after the Viet Minh revolution in North Viet Nam, but that was only an effect, not the cause of my disapproval of Communism...
...despite being virtually penniless, and went out and farmed his rented rice fields side by side with his peasant neighbors. Diem himself left politics before World War II rather than work with the French. In that tradition, Nhu, his wife and family were opposed both to the Red Viet Minh "army of liberation" and to the French with their puppet Emperor, Bao Dai. When the Viet Minh overran Hué, they shot Diem's oldest brother and the brother's only son, for months held Diem himself captive before turning him loose. Nhu and Can both escaped from the Reds...
...after their disastrous defeat at Dienbienphu, the French in desperation met the exiled Diem's demand for Vietnamese independence and sent him back to Viet Nam to try to rally his war-shattered people and to salvage something from the Viet Minh. Two weeks after Diem was installed in Saigon as Premier, the weary and discouraged French sliced Viet Nam in half at the Geneva bargaining table; the Viet Minh took the north with its coal and iron, and Diem was left with the south, including Saigon and the rice-rich Mekong River delta...
...Viet Nam's government hoped to flush six Red battalions and a headquarters company from its longtime stronghold in the mountains. Main object of the month-long operation was to destroy Viet Cong food caches and cut the Reds' main supply line, the 400-mile Ho Chi Minh trail to North Viet Nam through neutral Laos. The Reds had plainly evacuated the area in advance, but Vietnamese officials explained that they did not aim to kill Viet Cong guerrillas, only to isolate them. If successful, said one, the sweep "wall solve 50% of our military problems...