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...Shame on U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge [Sept. 23], who greeted Ky "fulsomely as the election results became clear." According to Webster, the ambassador was guilty of being "offensive; disgusting; esp., offensive from insincerity or baseness of motive; as, fulsome praise...
...This certainly announces the beginning of the end," exulted South Viet Nam's Premier Nguyen Cao Ky. "A great victory for the people against traitors. A victory for what is right and just against what is cruel. A victory of the entire free world against those who would enslave mankind...
...Ky's happy hyperbole was perhaps a bit overheated, but he did have rea son for enthusiasm as South Viet Nam's election results flowed in last week...
Well aware of the danger of ballot stuffing, the government watched the polls closely. Premier Ky stepped in twice to halt ballot rigging by province chiefs, and indeed his own nephew, running for a seat in coastal Vung Tau, was defeated. Clearly, the generals paid heed to the warning of Major General Nguyen Due Thang, who heads the "revolutionary development" (pacification) program, and also was in charge of running the elections. Thang said: "We have to do this right, or we may never have another chance. The people will never believe us again if this is not a free election...
Korean Model? Buoyed by the election results, the Ky government and U.S. officials in Saigon wasted no time in getting the good word out to the countryside. Posters, pamphlets and leaflets began rolling by the millions through U.S.-installed presses. Nor will North Viet Nam be overlooked in the satura tion attack: fully 5,000,000 leaflets will float down on the North from U.S. planes this week with the message: "The September elections prove that the masses in the South prefer freedom to Communism...