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...deepest sympathy to Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu and her family. I wish to remind those who vilified her late husband and brother-in-law that they were perhaps far less guilty than those who set themselves up as their judges. Put them beside a Khrushchev, a Tito, or even a Chiang Kaishek, and they were like innocent lambs. May God grant them eternal rest...
Washington was cautiously optimistic -or was it optimistically cautious?-about the military coup in South Viet Nam. Everyone agreed that it was, indeed, a pity that President Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother Ngo Dinh Nhu had to get murdered in the process. After the U.S. conferred diplomatic recognition on the generals' government, Dean Rusk said: "We think the new regime will be able to resolve the internal problems and unify the people...
...better work out that way -for, as the Kennedy Administration knows so well, failure of the U.S.-encouraged generals' junta to hasten the pace of the Vietnamese war might have explosive domestic political implications in 1964. Certain to be heard from for quite a while is Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu-who looks as though she might stay on in the U.S. for as long as possible...
...rebels had no difficulty laying their hands on Ngo Dinh Can, 50, Diem's brother and tough overlord of Central Viet Nam. Wearing tattered clothes but carrying a valise containing cash, Can sought refuge in the U.S. consulate, only to be turned out after the State Department received assurances that the generals would allow him "due process...
...regime's most embarrassing problem was two corpses-those of Diem and his brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu. The official talk of suicide was obviously phony (see following story). At the beginning, the generals apparently tried to spare the brothers' lives, but after Diem escaped from the palace, the junta evidently fell back on the philosophy of 19th century British Poet Arthur Hugh Clough...