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...recent graduate, I was distressed to read in the Oct. 15 New York Times that Radcliffe students had given an "enthusiastic" welcome to Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu on Monday (Oct. 14). The Times' description of a College audience applauding this woman "at every possible chance" during her address is hardly a tribute to the much-vaunted intelligence of Radcliffe women...
Arguments based on taste are double-edged. Certainly Harvard would oppose restrictions on a Communist like Gus Hall, even though his views might be no less repugnant than Wallace's. For that matter, how does Mme. Nhu differ from the Governor? In short, a decision against dissemination of ideas has implications beyond the personal merits of the speaker who expresses them...
...passed a law against polygamy," Mme. Nhu continued, "but it wasn't enough to pass laws. I knew that the men would try, at their first opportunity, to get rid of these laws and that women had to find some way of protecting themselves. So the next step was to organize a paramilitary force of Vietnamese women. Now there are 200,000 women with military training and I have seen young men begging the girls to teach them...
...four children have given her a great deal of pleasure. "My elder daughter Le Thuy," Mme. Nhu gestured at the lovely seventeen-year-old who sat, poised and relaxed, across the room, "is not only a good deal taller than me--surely a sign of progress [In three inch heels Mme. Nhu stood under five feet]--but she will soon enter medical school in Vietnam. My other daughter [five years old] I expect will also have a career. But all my children shall do as they wish. I would have preferred Le Thuy to have been a lawyer...
...Thuy complains," Mme Nhu glanced at her daughter, "that I have a smile for everyone and save only my exhaustion for her. And now she would make me rest, if not for the business we must still attend to." It was time for the Law School Forum...