Word: viets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Approved a plan for sharing atomic information with 13 NATO nations, "a great stride forward in the strengthening of our common defense." ¶ Nominated State Department Career-man G. (for George) Frederick Reinhardt to be Ambassador to Viet Nam. ¶ Outlined his views on the liquidation of the Foreign Operations Administration June 30. They are: the State Department should continue to have policy control; the military should add supervision of nonmilitary items, e.g., Army cots and shoes, to the distribution of weapons; and a new agency, called the International Cooperation Administration, should be created within the State Department to handle...
...Western side: Pakistan's Mohammed Ali, Thailand's Oxford-educated Prince Wan Waithayakon, Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister Fatin Rustu Zorlu (a former NATO delegate), and Lebanon's stoutly pro-Western Charles Malik. Besides Chou's, there was only one Communist delegation: North Viet Nam's, led by Foreign Minister Pham Van Dong. General Principles. For months the host delegation had been trying to put together an agenda (some subjects: atomic energy control, anticolonialism, coexistence, "universal" U.N. membership). Any of these might be exploited and become explosive. But, insisted Nehru: "A controversial issue should...
Battle on the Boulevard. The mortar shells and the ultimatum were fired at the struggling new state of South Viet Nam (pop. 10.5 million) by a war lord named General Le Van Vien-a man who used to be a river pirate and now runs the Binh Xuyen (pronounced bin soo yen), one of South Viet Nam's exotic alliances of political and religious sects, with its own private army of 8,000 uniformed men. The general often seems like an inclusive version of Murder Inc. and the police force, for his Binh Xuyen controls Saigon's prostitutes...
Frustration in the Palace. After three hours and 15 minutes of sporadic fire, the Binh Xuyen were just about ready to quit. "Warmest compliments . . . The Fatherland is proud of you," Diem signaled his young soldiers-but into the midst of free South Viet Nam's first small victory wheeled a black French Citroen, a French general inside it. "Cease fire! Assume defensive positions!"the Frenchman ordered the astonished Vietnamese...
...mounting," TIME Correspondent Dwight Martin cabled from Saigon, "and many foreign observers sympathize completely. It is probably too strong to say, as some are saying, that the French have a Machiavellian master plan to subvert the anti-French Nationalist Diem and with him the U.S. effort to save South Viet Nam from the Communists. But most Americans here conclude, nevertheless, that French actions and policies will have that effect unless they are soon and sharply confined. There are endless skeins of intrigue and sabotage being woven here by lower-echelon Frenchmen, many of whom will privately admit that they would...