Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rene Cogny laid wreaths on monuments marked A Nos Marts in the military cemetery and told his troops that it was not they who had lost the war against the Communists, but the politicians at Geneva. Alone, a Vietnamese Nationalist official shoveled North Vietnamese dirt into an urn, wrapped it with a Nationalist-flag, and made off with it to the south...
Essence of what the French called "total agreement": 1) France said it would loyally support Nationalist Premier Ngo Dinh Diem, 2) the U.S., with unconcealed distaste for Bao Dai, agreed that he should stay on as absentee chief of state until a Vietnamese assembly could be elected to decide his fate...
...pillars of democracy are toppling into the dust in unhappy South Africa. Last month the Nationalist government packed the High Court (TIME, May 9); last week it undertook to pack Parliament as well. In the Lower House of Parliament, Prime Minister Johannes Strydom introduced a bill that would increase the membership of the South African Senate from 48 to 89 in such a way as to raise the Nationalist membership of the Upper House from 30 to 77, reduce the Opposition (United Party) from 18 seats...
Strydom's bill is sure to pass, for his party has the votes. The new Nationalist Senators will give the government the two-thirds majority it needs in a joint session of Parliament to change South Africa's constitution and disenfranchise the 45,000 colored (mixed-blood) South Africans who still have votes...
...failings, no other responsible leader aside from Diem has so far emerged in South Viet Nam. Unless the Western powers are willing to let the country disintegrate politically and fall to the Communists in the north by default, they seem to have little choice but to support the present nationalist government. After all, can France really believe that Ho Chi Minh will be any more pro-French than Premier Diem...