Word: patriotism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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France's Prix de 1'Arc de Triomphe always seems to bring out the patriot in horsemen - just possibly because of its $270,000 purse. The field of 20 thoroughbreds that paraded to the post at Longchamp last week carried the silks of six nations, but the horses' nationalities were a little confused...
...Minh did not go all the way to Versailles to badger the Allies. He went as a calm young patriot who wanted to point out to the Big Four the importance of understanding what was going on in Indo-China. They wouldn't even see him. He turned the other way only because they pushed...
Teacher's Pet. Giving up the soft life of a Moscow student, with its "party spouses" and anticapitalist polemics, Ho set out for China under the name of Nguyen Ai Quoc (roughly, "Smith the Patriot"), as agitator and translator for Stalin's agent Mikhail Borodin. Their mission: to penetrate the Kuomintang and train Communist can bo (cadres) to infiltrate French Indo-China. At Canton's Whampoa Military Academy, Ho demonstrated his skills as a disciplinarian. Any student-agitator who failed to show sufficient diligence was promptly betrayed to the French when he infiltrated Viet Nam. Most...
...experience and agility, Ho is now caught in a grinding bind. Neither Moscow nor Peking will put up with him as a purely Vietnamese patriot; each wants him in its camp. The West cannot countenance his Communist expansionism for fear that it will eventually inundate the rest of Southeast Asia. It will take a lot more than his guile and staying power to emerge a victor in Southeast Asia...
...Mecklin, a veteran TIME correspondent who served (on a leave of absence) from 1962 to 1964 as USIS chief in Saigon, watched the drama of Diem's last days from close range. The portrait of Diem that emerges from this bitter but balanced account is of a dedicated patriot flawed by hubris and hamstrung by scheming relatives...