Word: viets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mayer spoke on, his voice rose, and the Assembly sensed that the "moment of truth" was at hand. "It has been said that France must adapt herself to the evolution of the modern world. If that means adapt herself as she has done in Viet Nam, or as she has done in the Fezzan and in the French establishments in India, I answer...
...amount of American aid can guarantee the freedom of Viet Nam," said U.S. Presidential Envoy Joseph Lawton Collins last month, "unless the Vietnamese are determined to be free." Last week General Collins flew back to Washington bearing news of considerable Vietnamese determination. "Things are looking up in South Viet Nam," reported the New York Herald Tribune's Homer Bigart at the same time. "The odds on holding the place, quoted at no better than one in ten a month ago, are now reduced to one in five." One of the reasons for the changing odds-adverse though they still...
...previously reticent Premier is showing more self-confidence and political skill. He is also getting stronger and more popular, partly because he is now the sole dispenser of U.S. aid in South Viet Nam, but more importantly because Diem is developing a novel formula that is catching Vietnamese imagination: a nationalist, puritanical revulsion from the corruption and immorality that most Vietnamese associate with the discredited French colonials...
...least for the time being. "We ourselves propose the suppression of gambling dens," proclaimed the Binh Xuyen's General Le Van Vien to an astonished populace. "If we did run gambling in the past, it was only because we wanted to give the newly born state of Viet Nam an indispensable complement of money in taxes for its budget . . . Now we conceive the urgent necessity of a complete disinfection of the regime from all defects . . . to defeat Communist propaganda." At week's end, Binh Xuyen's spectacular gambling casino, Le Grand Monde, which in the old days...
...China is all in the same package with the U.S.S.R. Political boundaries mean little to Mr. Philbrick in nearly as undiscriminating a way as do his ideological boundaries between organizations, here at home. He even goes so far as to ignore the famine by sloppily designating Viet Mihn, the U.S.S.R., and Communist China as "well-fed reds...