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...powers at Geneva were about to halt the Indo-China war by splitting Viet Nam in two-with the industrialized northern half going to Communist Ho Chi Minh. Sixteen months later Nationalist Diem took the final step. Overwhelmingly victorious in a national referendum which ousted the French puppet-Emperor, and named Diem chief of state, he proclaimed Viet Nam a republic, became its first President. Even with firm U.S. support and massive doses of military and economic aid ($450 million to date, and scheduled for about $250 million next year), his problems were enormous; e.g., his control over much...
...certain point Garcia will step aside in favor of someone who will gratify his real ambition, a seat in the Supreme Court. This someone might be either Nacionalista Party Chief Senator Eulogio Rodriguez, or adroit old Yaleman (Law School '20) José Laurel Sr., who was puppet President during the Japanese occupation. Another eager to run is Magsaysay's old enemy Claro Recto, who was puppet Foreign Minister. It was not an impressive lineup...
Last week the Italian Communist Party organ Unita printed a dispatch from its Budapest correspondent suggesting that if the U.S. would request it, Hungary's puppet Premier Janos Kadar would be happy to grant Mindszenty a safe-conduct allowing him to leave both the legation and Hungary. To these officially inspired Communist overtures, there was a noticeable absence of response by both the Vatican and his U.S. hosts...
...country, the wisdom has been slowly won. The man the French picked as a puppet has become the unchallenged leader of the forces that liberated his year-old country. An autocratic king, he has become the strongest advocate of democratic rule for his people. A descendant of the Prophet and official champion of the faith, he is the most powerful influence for bringing Western education to his largely illiterate land...
...attack. It has decided, said Bulganin, to "strengthen most decisively the Warsaw Pact, whether the imperialists like it or not." The Soviet news agency Tass warned that "a new aggression against Egypt" would create "the direct threat of a broad military conflict." In Moscow last week, Hungarian Puppet Premier Janos Kadar reached an agreement to "strengthen the punitive side of the proletarian dictatorship" in Hungary. It was a decidedly truculent face the Russians had turned to the rest of the world...