Word: viets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clear, therefore, that the Fellowship of Reconciliation is wasting its time circulating petitions for food which is not needed by the Communists. I will suggest that as an alternative, they circulate the same petitions demanding that the surplus foods be circulated to South Viet Nam, where more than 350,000 homeless and hungry refugees, driven from their homes by the well fed Reds, are in dire need of substinence. Herbert A. Philbrick New York Herald Tribune
...Eisenhower felt embarrassed and angry when the Agriculture Department rejected Wolf Ladejinsky as Tokyo attache (TIME, Jan. 3 et. seq.-). Last week with White House approval, Ladejinsky got security clearance and another job (at his previous salary: $11,800) with Harold Stassen's Foreign Operations Administration in South Viet Nam. Ladejinsky, who planned the U.S.-sponsored land reforms in Japan that gave 3,000,000 peasant families their own farms, will blueprint similar reforms to win South Viet Nam's peasants away from Communism before next year's elections...
...Mohammed AH objected on behalf of the Moslem states, and Israel was excluded. The white-supremacy government of South Africa was not even discussed. ("We can't go there, so why the hell should we invite them here," explained Ceylon's Sir John Kotelawala.) North and South Viet Nam were invited; South and North Korea were not. Indonesia's Ali Sastroamidjojo proposed Japan, a surprising suggestion from a nation that still remembers the Japanese conquest of the East Indies. But Japan's invitation was designed to balance off another...
...Diem arrested a former Minister of the Interior on charges of extorting $120,000 from local Chinese businessmen. Diem scheduled a spectacular public trial, in which his prosecutors intend to show how the ex-Minister's policemen arrested wealthy Chinese and threatened to deport them "for helping the Viet Minh" unless the Chinese paid blackmail. Diem wants to use the trial to herald a big new campaign against corruption in demoralized South Viet Nam. There are faint signs that his austere new nationalism is beginning to catch an apathetic public's fancy. But Diem still...
...Binh Xuyen's concession expires Jan. 15. South Viet Nam's austerely Nationalist Premier Ngo Dinh Diem, a Roman Catholic who is appalled by Saigon's immorality, is determined to clean up the city. But in doing so, Diem would have to sacrifice a steady source of government income and risk a show of strength with the armed hoodlums of the Binh Xuyen. It would be a hard decision, but word leaked out at week's end that Diem was steeling himself to take it: not to renew the Binh Xuyen's golden concession...