Word: viets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lighter C-47, so he could land in the Indo-China kingdom of Laos. Cambodia came next day; there he listened attentively to complaints against French interference by young, popular King Norodom Sihanouk.* In the afternoon, back in his Constellation, Dulles took off for the intrigue-ridden South Viet Nam capital of Saigon to promise U.S. support to doughty little Premier Ngo Dinh Diem. From Saigon he flew to Manila for a round of diplomatic calls and a two-hour-and-ten-minute (without notes) briefing of U.S. Far Eastern ambassadors on the policy he had been preaching all along...
...personality of our venerated sovereign, King Norodom Sihanouk . . . Would you allow me an annotation concerning the general elections in Cambodia? . . . His Majesty decided to hold the elections (in April) of his own free will because he thinks internal order and security is re-established now that the Viet Minh troops have withdrawn...
Tension in the Village. In Bahoi, a Camau community of 150 thatched huts beside a canal, it took an incoming Vietnamese lieutenant half an hour to muster up 150 villagers. The men stood impassively around him; the women peered out from shadows. "Among you are people friendly to the Viet Minh," the lieutenant said, "but look at the poverty and disease around you . . . The Viet Minh do nothing for the people. The Viet Minh are only interested in themselves and in bloodshed." The lieutenant's men began to hand out paper Vietnamese flags. Filipino doctors showed off wonder drugs...
...chapter," the Nationalist leaflets asserted. "Alt for People, All for Country, under Premier Diem!" TIME Correspondent John Mecklin asked one Camau villager, however, who Diem was. "Don't know." Had he heard of Communist Ho Chi Minh? "He's President." Had he heard of the U.S.? "The Viet Minh say you're all capitalists." What's a capitalist? "They make people poor." Wreath on the Monument. Gingerly Diem's young Nationalist army moved step by step more deeply into Camau-the towns first, then the villages, then out by powered boats along the bayous. They...
...better than the oppression you have suffered," Diem kept repeating as he toured Camau in person at week's end. "You have many needs; I shall do my best." Gradually the indoctrinated and indifferent villagers grew more receptive. Premier Diem, however, did not underrate the ingrained tenacity of Viet Minh Communism. One day one of Diem's Nationalist soldiers accidentally kicked over a wreath the Viet Minh had left behind on a monument to their dead. A young Camau kid quietly stepped out from a group of passers-by and, unafraid, laid the wreath back in its place...