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...President Ngo Dinh Diem to settle their differences. The latest episodes offered little assurance of that. Couching his words in the most careful diplomatic terms, U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge last week suggested to Diem that his brother and fiery sister-in-law, Ngo Dinh Nhu and Mme. Nhu, leave the country until the current crisis was over and a fresh rapprochement between the government and the population established. Lodge hinted delicately that the continued presence of the bitterly controversial Nhus in South Viet Nam not only hampered the war effort against the Communist Viet Cong, but could also "endanger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Report on the War | 9/20/1963 | See Source »

MADAME NGO DINH NHU...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 13, 1963 | 9/13/1963 | See Source »

...policy, and perhaps in personnel. If it doesn't make those changes, I would think the chances of winning it would not be very good." Kennedy named no names, but the "personnel changes" he wanted were the removal from power of Diem's younger brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu, and Nhu's acerbic wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Relations: Diplomacy by Television | 9/13/1963 | See Source »

Absolutely Misinformed. Defy the Administration Diem did, making it clear that he, his brother and his sister-in-law meant to retain their positions of power. As for Mme. Nhu, when she heard of Kennedy's statements, she commented: "If he really said that, it is very serious, because it shows the American Government is absolutely misinformed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Relations: Diplomacy by Television | 9/13/1963 | See Source »

...Nhu's inspiration, the government-controlled Times of Viet Nam bannered the headline, CIA FINANCING PLANNED COUP D'ETAT, over a story accusing U.S. agents of spending up to $24 million in bribes to key military men, labor leaders and civil servants to overthrow the Diem government-or at least to depose Nhu and his lady. The U.S. State Department scornfully dismissed the charges as "something out of Ian Fleming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Relations: Diplomacy by Television | 9/13/1963 | See Source »

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