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Cause of Cholon's unwonted somberness was a frontal assault by South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem on a problem common to all Southeast Asian nations: the threat posed by unassimilated colonies of overseas Chinese. In South Viet Nam, where they make up only one-tenth of the population, Chinese control nearly two-thirds of the economy. Though many come from families that have been in the country for centuries, almost none have taken out Vietnamese citizenship...
...dwindled to nothing, and to the dismay of Viet Nam's farmers, the domestic price of rice fell to its lowest level in years. Large-scale shipments of Chinese capital to Hong Kong sent the price of gold and black-market dollars soaring in Viet Nam. But stubborn Ngo Dinh Diem had no intention of backing down...
...talked about a Communist thaw and a need to conciliate the Soviet Union, but he also had much kinder words for U.S. policy past and present, overflowing personal tributes for President Eisenhower and, most surprisingly, thoughts of stronger support for South Viet Nam's doughty anti-Communist President Ngo Dinh Diem, whom Nehru had once belittled as a U.S. puppet. "What good will the U.S. has not been able to achieve in the past," India's Statesman reported, "was accomplished overnight by a bold and imaginative decision...
Asia's neutralists have always been slightly standoffish about South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem. They did not think his half of the country was here to stay; they did not approve of someone who openly accepted alliance with and aid from the U.S. But Diem's surprising success, and Communist North Viet Nam's conspicuous failures, have been changing Asian minds. Last week Burma's U Nu, a man increasingly disillusioned by his Communist neighbors, paid a social call on Diem in Saigon, came away impressed: "I was told you were...
...instead of. warred on, and the last of the departing French troops, to their surprise, found themselves affectionately cheered. The French government still spends money on Vietnamese agriculture and the maintenance of 300 teachers in free French schools. The Cercle Sportif, once snootily for Europeans only, took in Mrs. Ngo Dinh Nhu, the attractive First Lady of Viet Nam (she is the bachelor President's sister...