Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...determination to respond to peace talk with peace talk was carefully explained to Nationalist China's Chiang Kai-shek on Formosa last week by Assistant Secretary of State Walter Robertson and J.C.S. Chief Arthur Radford, who at the same time assured Chiang that the U.S. intends to augment the U.S. Air Force strength now based upon Formosa...
...President's careful explanation prompted Chinese Nationalist Joseph Chiang, Washington correspondent of the Chinese News Service, to ask a wry question: "Do you think Chinese Communists now realize America sincerely believes in peace so that she humbly came to America to help to seek peace?" Replied Ike: "Well, you are asking me to interpret people who are a long ways away and . . . with whom I am not too well acquainted. I would say this: I take their words with reservations, but with hope...
Lowering the Mask. In two days of sputtering street fighting, only four nationalist battalions and 18 armored cars were needed to send the Binh Xuyen reeling from Saigon (see below), exposing their potency as a myth, exposing too the myth of French neutrality. The French repeatedly blocked nationalist army movements, helped Binh Xuyen terrorists to escape. In Paris, just as Diem seemed to be getting things under control, Premier Edgar Faure brushed off the Diem government as "not adapted to the mission it faces." And on the French Riviera, fresh from a hard day's work shooting down...
...Saigon city hall, obviously with Diem's tacit approval. They denounced Bao Dai-"a puppet created by the French colonials . . . leading a dissolute life far from his people." They declared him "deposed," and tore his photograph from the wall and trampled on it. Claiming to speak for 18 nationalist parties, they urged Diem to repress the rebel sects and get rid of the 90,000-man French expeditionary force...
Twenty-five minutes later, more mortar shells dropped into the palace, and the private army of the Binh Xuyen, 2,000 terrorists in arsenic-green berets, opened concerted fire against three main Vietnamese Nationalist strongpoints. Ngo Dinh Diem, long criticized for pacifism and procrastination, first ordered counterfire against the Binh Xuyen defenses. One hour later he sharply raised the stakes, and told the army to clear the Binh Xuyen out of the city...