Word: nam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shaky state of southern Viet Nam rocked perilously last week between two proud patriots struggling for power...
...struggle was between Premier Ngo Dinh Diem and the army's Chief of Staff Nguyen Van Hinh. and it had deep roots. Premier Diem, for years a voluntary exile from his land while the French ran it, had lost face when Geneva partitioned Viet Nam over his protests, lost followers when partition left most of his Roman Catholic supporters in Communist hands, lost public confidence because of his reluctance to take men from southern Viet Nam (where he himself is little known) into his Cabinet. On the other side, he and the anti-French nationalists around him distrusted handsome...
...Protects treaty members in the area, as well as any other nations in the area willing to join later and unanimously accepted. A special protocol extends "a mantle of protection" to the Indo-China states of Laos, Cambodia and southern Viet Nam (which are debarred by the Geneva agreement from entering military commitments of their own). ¶ Provides, in the key Article IV, that in event of aggression, each signatory will regard an attack as endangering "its own peace and safety," and will undertake in that event "to meet the common danger in accordance with its constitutional processes...
...inside job" as Indo-China was, she wanted guarantees against subversion. The Philippines wished to avoid any definition that would require her to help a colonial power quell a genuine nationalist movement. The U.S. wanted to protect the southern tier of Asian states-Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Viet Nam. The Philippines wanted to defend only treaty signers and challenged the right of France to sign for the three independent states of Indo-China...
...last week announced from France that he would return "soon" to Viet Nam. This presumably indicated that the French expect Prime Minister Diem to fall in a few months, and are preparing to prop up Bao Dai again...