Word: nationhoods
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...standard, the U.S. has taken on an enormous task. U.S. aid will be needed for everything from installing social justice in the hamlets and combatting inflation to improving farm practices and-most important-inspiring in South Viet Nam's 16 million war-weary people a sense of nationhood...
...hardly be expected to understand. The Communists themselves chose South Viet Nam as their test case and springboard to the conquest of all Southeast Asia. There are signs that they are already beginning to regret it. The U.S. has picked up the gauntlet, and it is not only Vietnamese nationhood but all of free Asia that stands to be ultimately strengthened by the extraordinary-and still burgeoning-commitment of the lives and talent and treasure of America in Viet...
...part of his working day and that of the U.S. mission is spent in helping the Vietnamese lay the foundations for their own revolution. "These people," says Lodge, "have always had a strong sense of peoplehood. What we are now trying to give them is a strong sense of nationhood...
...Last week Mexico's President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz marched to the rostrum of the Chamber of Deputies to make his first state-of-the-nation address after nine months in office. His speech was a remarkable definition of Mexico's sense of stability, leadership and nationhood...
...Reader Battistini correctly points out that Chinese withdrawal and Vietnamese nationhood were negotiated separately. Whether Ho was really satisfied with an "independence" that left foreign policy in French hands and 15,000 French troops on Vietnamese soil remains debatable...