Word: viets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...much liberty is there in North Korea or North Viet Nam? What has happened to ancient Tibet? We must all frankly face this question: Where there is a threat of Communist colonial imperialism is a nation really safe in striking out alone...
Another Country Heard From. Flying on to Saigon, the Vice President, again to general public delight, reached for the hands of plain people, moved to the background while South Viet Nam marked the second anniversary of Ngo Dinh Diem's government. "You may be sure that you will have the warm support and admiration of the American people," Nixon said. "Although your country is divided, the militant march of Communism has been halted...
Though most of the Constituent Assembly members are Diem supporters, they did not accept his proposals supinely or find easy agreement among themselves. A relatively liberal document, the constitution nonetheless takes a realistic view of South Viet Nam's weakened national condition and the internal and external Communist threat to its security. It provides freedom of the press, speech and assembly-but gives Diem the right to suspend these freedoms in emergencies during the next four years. It denies Diem's demand to be allowed to dissolve the National Assembly at will-but provides him with a strong...
Under the provisions of the constitution, Premier Diem will become South Viet Nam's first President, for a six-year term, and the assembly members who forged the document will become the nation's first National Assemblymen, for four-year terms...
...Republic of the Philippines. The U.S. is expected next week to offer a grant of $35 million in economic aid to neutral Indonesia-about one-twentieth the sum sent in fiscal 1956 to allied South Korea, about one-sixth the U.S. Mutual Security budget for allied South Viet...