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...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...
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...