Word: nhu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only possible good that might result from the overthrow of the brothers Nhu is the tendency toward future discouragement of governments ruled by coalitions of brothers. Let us hope so: '64 is drawing near...
...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...
...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...
...Sympathy. Last week Mme. Nhu was in mourning in Los Angeles with Daughter Le Thuy, 18. Her three younger children were whisked out of Viet Nam after the coup. At first, Mme. Nhu planned to meet them in Rome, but then she decided to have the children join her in California. Sympathetic messages poured in all week-telegrams from such people as Democratic Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, Los Angeles' Mayor Sam Yorty, Publisher William Buckley; a six-minute phone call of condolence from former Vice President and Mrs. Richard Nixon. Paris Match magazine offered...