Word: viets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rice fields, Dictator Ho Chi Minh tried to mend the error by firing Party Boss Truong and circulating a letter which promised drastic liberalization of his regime. Last week, at the sprawling seaport town of Tourane, a boatload of refugees from the Communist North stepped ashore in free South Viet Nam to tell a fuller story of the anti-Red uprisings...
...first ten days, the only knowledge of the uprising in North Viet Nam came from the Communist radio itself (TIME, Nov. 26), which described the revolt in heavily Catholic Nghean province as "prepared long in advance" by "reactionary hooligans . . . taking advantage of our mistakes in the application of land reform...
...area around Quynh Luu, but other refugees had told him that there were similar uprisings in the suburbs of Hanoi itself, in Phat Diem, Thanh Hoa and Vinh. In many cases, solidly Buddhist peasants were prevented from joining their Catholic co-rebels only by hastily deployed units of the Viet Minh army...
They fought in ignorance of the rest of the world; they had not even heard of the revolt in Hungary. "We knew nothing of the freedom in the South," said Nguyen. "We did not know that the French had already left South Viet Nam. They told us that here there was no food, that all the women had been forced to become prostitutes, and that the people made pies of the flesh of children. We did not know, but we did know that there was death up there in the North...
Asia's neutralists have always been slightly standoffish about South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem. They did not think his half of the country was here to stay; they did not approve of someone who openly accepted alliance with and aid from the U.S. But Diem's surprising success, and Communist North Viet Nam's conspicuous failures, have been changing Asian minds. Last week Burma's U Nu, a man increasingly disillusioned by his Communist neighbors, paid a social call on Diem in Saigon, came away impressed: "I was told you were...