Word: viets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...garner technical know-how from other countries. It was willing to send and receive persons under conditions it could closely control. But it reacted most violently against anything that smacked of the elimination of barriers to the freer exchange of ideas . . . After a generation of fanatical indoctrination the So viet rulers can hardly bring themselves to loosen their existing thought controls so as to permit a freer contact with the free world...
...there is no indication that So viet Russia, with economic problems of its own, is prepared to spend that kind of money: it hopes to make big progress on the cheap...
Through Saigon's streets rolled a float depicting a swinish Emperor Bao Dai swilling cognac with one hand, clutching a nude blonde with the other, while an overbearing French rascal stuffed the royal pockets with gold. The question before the people in South Viet Nam's first free national election was in effect a choice between Premier Ngo Dinh Diem as their head of state or Bao Dai, their absentee playboy sovereign...
Text for Democracy. The victor in the elections was far from silent. Ngo Dinh Diem, a bachelor under a self-imposed oath of celibacy and a Roman Catholic among a predominantly Buddhist people, proclaimed South Viet Nam a republic and himself its first President. To the boom of a naval cannonade and amid a torchlight procession and fireworks, 54-year-old Diem spoke from the steps of Saigon's Independence Palace, flanked by his Cabinet, a battery of generals, two Catholic bishops and two Buddhist prelates. Said the new President: "Democ racy is not a group of texts...
...prestige abroad was suffering one defeat after another. First there was the massive repudiation by Saar voters of France's ten-year rule. Snorted Deputy Jacques Vendrous, De Gaulle's brother-in-law: "France played cards while the Saar was lost." Deputies were also nettled at South Viet Nam's summary rejection of French Puppet Bao Dai, and shocked by the sudden defection of El Glaoui, France's oldest Moroccan ally. Yet none of these reverses vexed the touchy Deputies as much as Edgar Faure's surprise proposal (TIME, Oct. 31) for snap Assembly elections...