Word: viets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Emergency Aid. In the fire-alarm crises in Iran. Guatemala, Viet Nam, and Jordan, the U.S. used the technique of military-economic aid repeatedly and effectively to defeat Communist attempts to take over whole nations by subversion. Drawing the moral, Ike now wants a special emergency fund of $300 million to enable the U.S. to act swiftly and flexibly in whatever new crises come...
...equally candid with the West: the people of free Asia are "impatient ... to reduce their immense technical backwardness . . . They clamor for immediate economic development." Thus, said Diem, the debate among Viet Nam leaders is how "to attain economic progress without sacrificing essential liberties." Their choice is not between economic planning and no planning, but whether progress will take place by democratic or totalitarian means. Vital to the outcome of this debate, Diem warned, "are the efforts being made to safeguard liberal democracy through aid" from the industrial West. President Diem's implied point: if the West...
Beyond Formality. Diem had two 45-minute sessions with Secretary of State Dulles, and a one-hour session, along with Dulles, with Eisenhower at the White House. Ike and Diem got another chance to talk at a formal dinner at the Viet Nam embassy, where Host Diem, dressed in traditional Vietnamese costume-black turban, white trousers, a purple-and-black knee-length coat-also had a chat with another Ike visitor, Britain's Field Marshal Montgomery...
...talking was over, and before Diem set out on a ten-day tour of the U.S. the two Presidents issued the customary formal communique. It was phrased in the same hard-worn phrases of today's diplomacy: both recognized the threat of the Communist buildup in North Viet Nam, Diem pointed up the need for "closer cooperation with the free countries of Asia," the two governments agreed "to cooperate closely together for freedom and independence in the world...
...Asia, more and more Americans are searching out lightly traveled Shangri-Las, and are willing to trade off some comfort for new romance. After hundreds of years of isolation in the Himalayas, Nepal's Katmandu is opening up to venturesome tourists. Now peaceful, Viet Nam next month will open a hunting bureau in Saigon, with safari guides, rifles and elephants for hire. Package price for hunting panther, tiger, elephant, buffalo, bear: $8 a day. In all, 115,000 Americans will travel in the Pacific-a gain of 15% over last year...