Word: viets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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High Prestige. Scanning his Administration's efforts, Ike found them fruitful. War in Korea and Communist engulfment of Viet Nam had been halted. Trieste was eliminated "as a sore spot." In Iran "at least the beginning" of a settlement had been achieved. Moreover, "we have not been drawn into the position of being so completely on one side of a quarrel . . . that we are incapable of carrying out our proper role of mediator, conciliator and friend of both sides . . ." In a voice pitched for Democratic ears, the President said: "Certainly the prestige of the U.S. since the last world...
...ambassador of Viet Nam, Tran Van Chuong, will speak on American-Vietnamese relations in Harkness Commons at 1:30 p.m. this afternoon at the Harvard Law School's "Coffee Hour," open to all students...
...notes to the U.S., France and Britain proposing the immediate unification of Germany with some degree of militarization. Assignment : prepare position papers for the U.S., France and Germany." Another hypothetical question: What should the U.S. do in case "volunteers" in Indo-China suddenly sweep across the 17th parallel in Viet Nam? Or, swinging around to figure Soviet strategic thinking: What should the U.S.S.R. do in light of Red China's growing power...
...long ago, young (32) General Ba Cut declared that he would behead Viet Nam's Premier Ngo Dinh Diem as a warning of the power of the Hoa Hao, the piratical "religious" sect that once boasted an army of 20,000 and ruled large areas of Viet Nam as a feudal fief. The threat was characteristic of Ba Cut's fanatic life. At 17, hot-eyed Ba Cut swore he would fight to the death against the French, and he cut off the tip of his forefinger to seal his oath. At 21, he switched, began fighting...
...also refused to accept the authority of the fledgling South Viet Nam government of Ngo Dinh Diem. Nine months ago Diem ordered two infantry divisions against Ba Cut and his feudal domain. Slowly, Diem's troops dispersed Ba Cut's power. By January, Ba Cut's forces had been reduced to a straggling band roaming from village to village just ahead of its pursuers...