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Phase Two: Move to the Right. This surge of Communist power alarmed the Eisenhower Administration, then engaged in trying to help President Ngo Dinh Diem of neighboring South Viet Nam preserve a pro-Western government against Red aggression. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles had tried to seal off Southeast Asia by building the SEATO pact and encouraging anti-Communist allies. The U.S. Ambassador to Laos, J. Graham Parsons, distrusted Premier Souvanna Phouma both as a neutralist and a compromiser with the Reds. Withholding U.S. economic aid was enough to cause Souvanna's downfall, and he was replaced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: LAOS: Four Phases to Nonexistence | 6/8/1962 | See Source »

Segni's chief rival for the job, which combines ceremonial functions with such real political leverage as the power to dissolve Parliament and veto legislation, was formally undeclared but well known just the same. He was fellow Christian Democrat Premier Amintore Fanfani, who had recently picked staunchly pro-Western Segni as Foreign Minister to balance his new center-left coalition, the much debated apertura a sinistra. Fanfani figured that by stubbornly clinging to about 40 votes that Segni needed to win, the deadlocked chamber would promote him to chief of state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy: Symbol of the Nation | 5/18/1962 | See Source »

...Congo troops were called into the Congo to establish peace there. But there are no U.N. troops, the Long Island University professor asserted, just national troops with their own national interests. "In the course of it all we got to fighting with the only pro-Western, pro-U.N. regime in the Congo. This was not the result of any wicked plot, but strange liberal delusions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: U.S. Liberalism Rapped by Kirk | 5/11/1962 | See Source »

...peasants remain more friendly to the Viet Cong than to the pro-Western government of President Ngo Dinh Diem, and the peasants are the key to victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Victory by Radio? | 4/27/1962 | See Source »

...South Viet Nam's President Diem reform his regime; he will have to do some reforming of U.S. operations as well. The first U.S. military mission in South Viet Nam dates from 1954, when Lieut. General John ("Iron Mike") O'Daniel helped organize the Vietnamese army for pro-Western President Ngo Dinh Diem. Next came Lieut. General Samuel ("Hangin' Sam") Williams, a leathery, irascible veteran who was convinced that when war came it would be a Korean-style invasion from the north with the Communists pouring tank columns and road-bound infantry divisions over the border. Williams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: To Eradicate the Cancer | 2/23/1962 | See Source »

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