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Implied Rebuke. The President's apparent readiness to meet with the Buddhists is bitterly opposed by his sisterin-law, Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu, who has consistently urged that the Buddhist opposition be crushed. "If the President keeps bowing to the Buddhists," she said, "they will keep right on taking advantage of this weakness to make new, impossible demands. They are utterly hypocritical." With what sounded like a rebuke to Mme. Nhu, Diem countered: "It is only because some have contributed, either consciously or unconsciously, to raising doubts about this government's policy that the solution to the Buddhist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Suicide Series | 8/23/1963 | See Source »

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