Word: nhu
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
When the French army began moving out into the countryside, Mme. Nhu's captors prepared a hasty retreat north. But because her mother-in-law was incapable of making such an arduous trip, Mme. Nhu was granted a safe-conduct pass to a nearby village. With her child and the old woman, Mme. Nhu holed up in a convent in the village until the French forces arrived. Shortly afterward she was reunited with Nhu...
...Time. The anticolonialist views shared by the whole Ngo Dinh family made the French regard the Nhus with suspicion. Settling in the resort town of Dalat, the Nhus quietly set about organizing popular support for the return to Viet Nam of Diem, who was in exile in the U.S. Nhu ran a paper and worked to develop his philosophy of personalism; to win favor among poor, potential supporters, Mme. Nhu turned down her family's hefty allowance, shopped for her own groceries, pedaled around Dalat on a bicycle...
...Saigon cocktail parties, Army Boss General Hinh used to threaten a coup almost daily and joke that when he overthrew the government he would exile every member of Diem's family except Mme. Nhu, whom, he said, he would keep as a concubine. One day Mme. Nhu finally met Hinh face to face at a party. She walked over to him, recalls an observer, and said: "You are never going to overthrow this government because you don't have the guts. And if you do overthrow it, you will never have me because I will claw your throat out first...
That was when Saigon began to take serious notice of Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu...
...Nhu's flaming feminism that most antagonized the traditionalist Vietnamese. In 1956 she was elected to the National Assembly, immediately began a campaign to upgrade the status of Vietnamese women, who had no legal rights and could be dis carded by husbands at will. In these circumstances, said Mme. Nhu, a Vietnamese woman was "an eternal minor, an unpaid servant, a doll without a soul." In 1958 she rammed through the Assembly her controversial Family Bill, which made adultery a prison offense and outlawed polygamy, concubinage, and?except by special presidential dispensation?divorce...