Word: viets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next instant, half a dozen mortar shells exploded beneath Ngo Dinh Diem's open window. "We never believed they would dare attack us!" said one of Diem's aides, aghast. But on Diem's shabby desk in Freedom Palace lay the confirmation: "All South Viet Nam will be put to blood and fire," an ultimatum read, "unless you consent to our demands...
...Northern and Southern Vietnamese must, under Geneva, set the terms for the 1956 elections. Communist Ho, though he has doubled his army-in violation of Geneva-and is acquiring the beginnings of an air force, is openly confident that he will not need to use them to capture South Viet...
Should such a policy prevail, the U.S. and South Viet Nam would be committing themselves to a policy of partition, two Viet Nams-a strong, aggressive Communist Viet Nam nourished by Moscow and Peking; a weak, divided but free Viet Nam that will need for some time the pledges and help...
Haircuts & Chickens. It is one of the discomfiting truths of South Viet Nam that not all are sure they prefer the unfulfilled hopes of non-Communist rule to the confidently touted certainties of Red government. For Premier Ngo Dinh Diem there is a hard shell of resistance to crack. In one characteristic village of the south last week, some of the people demonstrated what the problem...
Thus goes the crucial struggle for men's devotion in South Viet Nam. With time and ingenuity, the side of freedom can hope to prevail. "If the people can be sure the Communists will not return," a village elder suggested, "then the people will turn against them. But how can we be sure?" The answer lies in great part beyond the beleaguered man in the Freedom Palace of Saigon. "The Vietnamese people have the will," said Ngo Dinh Diem's ambassador to Washington, "but only the U.S. has the might...