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...class, 4,532 strong, of South Viet Nam's new Revolutionary Development Cadre scattered in 59-man teams to all of the nation's 43 provinces to begin fulfilling the promise of last February's Honolulu conference to bring a social revolution and a sense of nationhood to the rural people...
...Viet Cong, Burma a xenophobic military backwater. The Chinese talons are less than 100 miles away, North Viet Nam a bare 20 minutes as the U.S. fighter-bombers fly from their Thai bases. Everywhere on the great peninsula, militant Communism, poverty, misery, illiteracy, misrule, and a foundering sense of nationhood are the grim order of the Asian...
...nation. The Thais have both. Though various ruling officers have come and gone since a 1932 coup gently displaced the King as absolute ruler, Kings and soldiers have combined, in a typical Thai equilibrium of accommodation, to provide a smooth chain linkage of government. The Thai sense of nationhood is partly the result of never having felt the trauma of colonial conquest. Even more, it resides in the charisma of the throne, reinforced by the nation's pervasive Buddhism. In Buddhist theology, the King is one of the highest of reincarnations, rich in his person in past accumulated virtue...
...among some Vietnamese by hinting that the U.S. opposed elections, the U.S. in fact has always wanted them, provided that they were truly representative and not rigged by the Viet Cong in the countryside districts. Moreover, in Honolulu the U.S. had pledged itself to give as much help toward "nationhood" as any outsider could...
GARIBALDI AND HIS ENEMIES, by Christopher Hibbert. Author Hibbert has drawn a clear and coherent portrait of the red-shirted romantic who led Italy from confusion to nationhood a century...