Word: ngos
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Dates: during 1963-1963
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...indications it issued in recent weeks that an efficient, effective military revolt in Saigon would not be deplored. For this reason, the U.S. can hardly complain about last week's activities, and it would not want to anyway, since the new government could hardly be worse than the Ngos' for either South Vietnam or the United States. All early evidence shows that the Ngos' Buddhist replacements will be much more popular domestically and are more interested in prosecuting the war against the Vietcong guerrillas rather than aggrandizing themselves. Nevertheless, the United States should do whatever it can to encourage...
...regime rather than later, when both sides will have settled again into the old molds. A prompt re-evaluation is all the more imperative, since the U.S. will now be collaborating with a more respectable regime, which would be much more difficult to abandon honorably than the Ngos. As long as Diem and his friends lorded over the country, the White House could always have asserted, if a military withdrawal became necessary, that America had not capitulated to the Communists but rather that the Ngos had not cooperated very well in keeping the wolves from the door...
...indicated any desire to join the previous resident, Emperor Bao Dai, on the Riviera, and there seems to be no easy way of getting them to go. No elections they conduct would turn them out of office. Free elections will have to wait at least removal of the Ngos. However, after the attempted coups in 1960 and 1962, which the U.S. failed to support, and the wild vacillation of Americans policy on a coup in recent weeks, South Vietnamese military men are apparently not anxious to risk another...
...currently less vulnerable than the President should be saying the things that might make a more adaptable policy possible. They should point out the foibles of the Diem government, explain that Communism is not a monolithic movement, demonstrate that the domino theory-our only justification for consorting with the Ngos - does not apply if Vietnamese Communists differ from Chinese Communists...