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...some inklings of a coup, including rumors that generals had begun moving troops loyal to Diem away from the capital. New York Times Correspondent David Halberstam and another correspondent received a slip of paper the night before with the message: "Please buy me one bottle of whisky at the PX." It was a prearranged signal meaning that a coup might be imminent. While Saigon was still at lunch, thousands of men in combat garb were gathering just outside the city, buckling on equipment, checking their weapons, listening to last-minute instructions for the violent overthrow of the government...
...talking about State Department personnel, he explained, but about "the tremendous proliferation of American civilian personnel from other agencies of our Government. This is not to denigrate the individuals concerned, or to, imply that they are all drones. Some are, and some others are interested primarily in garnishing the PX way of life with diplomatic immunities. In the main, however, they are good and patriotic Americans. But there are far too many of them. Their presence bewilders our foreign friends. Their activities are rarely coordinated. Their operations are costly, and without congressional insistence practically no project ever gets finished...
...negotiations that fixed Burma's borders with Red China and in last month's talks with Japan that produced $170 million in additional World War II reparations and loans. Despite his insistence that "I have no training in economics," he built a modest army PX-type operation into the giant Burma Economic Development Corp., running 34 firms ranging from banking to fisheries and turning handsome profits that in some years ran as high as $2,500,000. Though he insisted that he had been a socialist for 20 years and intended to remain one for 20 more...
...rejoin the world revolution, America must shed its materialism, symbolized abroad by the ubiquitous PX, which Americans patronize to avoid local contacts. With a pique that suggests he was once sassed by a PX clerk, Toynbee calls on the President "to sign one executive order abolishing all PXs throughout the world, and another order releasing from their contracts all American government servants abroad who feel incapable of lapping up local food and drink...
...totalitarianism. His implication: a have-not nation is entitled to totalitarian methods to catch up with the haves-an argument that was also used to justify Hitler. Gibbon, pondering the collapse of civilization among the ruins of the Forum, achieved a certain grandeur. Toynbee, among the groceries in the PX, seems little more than irritable...