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Mecklin was in the thick of the skirmishes between the U.S. press, the Saigon government and the U.S. embassy, and very much in the midst of the bitter political battles that ended the career and the life of President Ngo Dinh Diem. Yet "Meek the Knife" emerged from his difficult tour of duty to write an excellent account of the South Vietnamese war which he called Mission in Torment (see BOOKS). Author Mecklin had unique credentials for the task, having reported the .disastrous French campaign against the Communists and the establishment of the Diem regime for TIME between...
...overthrow and subsequent murder of President Ngo Dinh Diem in November 1963 opened a political Pandora's box in Saigon. Since that angry day, the government has changed hands seven times; the war against the Communist Viet Cong has grown even tougher; the U.S. has been forced to escalate the conflict by bombing North Viet Nam and nearly doubling its own forces in the south. Most important, Diem's fall brought to an end nearly a decade of political stability in Viet Nam. Was Diem's downfall inevitable or even imperative, the product of immutable historical forces...
...otherwise it might destroy all of the gains against Communism in South Viet Nam. It is the decision of the provisional Legislative Council to authorize new citizens of Chinese origin to stand for provincial councils and for Parliament only five years after acquiring Vietnamese citizenship. Under Ngo Dinh Diem's regime, the Chinese here were at first prevented from practicing dozens of professions. Such a prohibition was soon neutralized by a decision to give masses of them Vietnamese citizenship, thus making deeper and steadier Chinese control over the Viet Nam economy. There is no proof of the devotion...
...South Viet Nam of the novel is governed by "President Cung," who is the double of the late Ngo Dinh Diem; an army coup against him is brewing. It is Amberley's job to bring the fiercely independent Cung and his policies under U.S. control or, failing that, to back the army coup. After open negotiations and private appeals with an obbligato of CIA skulduggery, Amberley does fail with President Cung; the coup does take place exactly along the lines of the one that deposed and murdered Diem...
Religious Alarums. Almost from the beginning, the reader is writhing in doubt too, but of another kind. Author West is an Australian, widely traveled in the Far East, who knew Ngo Dinh Diem and came to admire him. "Cung," visualized as a remote and complex man, is a half-created shadow who is nonetheless the only real hero of the book...