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...reasons for Diem's election success in the hinterland is a lean exCommunist named Colonel Pham Ngoc Thao, 39. Last year he accosted President Diem, told him that the reason the Communist Viet Cong guerrillas were scoring success after success lay in the shortcomings of Diem's own soldiery. "Our soldiers need social and political education," said Thao. "Their discipline is poor. They have no consideration for the people." Their "bad habits"-stealing rice, pigs and girls -were driving the villagers to the Communist cause...
Election Toll. Diem responded by handing Colonel Thao command of vital, rice-growing Kienhoa province in the Mekong River delta, where previous commanders had failed. There Thao has cut the guerrillas down to size with skill and daring at their own nighttime jungle tactics. "When there is too much light, you can see nothing," says Thao. "The truth is in the night...
...were meeting clandestinely.; those in danger of arrest were told to find sanctuary in Prague. Schumacher would not go. Four months later, in a hideaway in Berlin, he heard the expected knock on the door. The Gestapo took him to the Heuberg concentration camp near Stuttgart. Schumacher coolly calculated thaO he would be in jail eleven years (he reckoned that by that time the Third Reich would have fought and lost a war). His calculation was close. He spent ten years in concentration camps, most of them at Dachau of gas-chamber notoriety. There he ran a web of anti...