Word: viets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...appreciate TIME publishing our communication about the work of this organization for the refugees in Free Viet Nam [May 23], Unfortunately, our wire used the wrong address. The contributions to aid these brave human beings who left everything behind to be free can be sent to Operation Brotherhood, 62 West 45th Street, New York...
...give the Vietnamese effective control of Saigon for the first time in 90 years. Just to show that individual Frenchmen would always be welcome in his country as friends, Premier Diem gave a party for some French navy men who had helped bring refugees south. The danger that South Viet Nam's confused struggle for power might turn into anti-French violence subsided...
Premier Diem and his followers got another piece of good news: Communist Ho Chi Minh agreed, in response to a British request, to a month's extension of the deadline after which anti-Communist refugees will not be allowed to leave Communist Viet Nam. Nearly a million refugees have already left; thousands more hope to get away, but now are at the mercy of Ho's Red army, which controls all the escape lanes...
After three brooding sessions, French Premier Edgar Faure and John Foster Dulles last week proclaimed themselves in agreement on South Viet Nam. "We may have different degrees of hope," was the way Premier Faure put it, "but it is certain that our desires are the same...
Both the U.S. and France agreed to remove those of their functionaries in South Viet Nam who are deemed disturbing to Franco-American harmony. The French agreed to pull the sects of warlords and gangsters off Diem, thereby indicating unblushingly that they have been manipulating them from the start. The French wanted the U.S. to get its man Diem to soft-pedal his anti-French line, to which the U.S. replied that Diem was not its stooge, nor did it want...