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Having followed your coverage of Viet Nam and the Ngo family for better than a year. I find an aspect of Diem totally ignored. French rule here only ended nine years ago. Diem refused to serve the interests of the French, and perhaps has no more willingness to serve the American Government. Before becoming President, he was a man of steadfast principle: that he would only serve a free and independent Viet...
...Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu lashed out Tuesday at Harvard students for the "impropriety and rudeness" they displayed here during her talk before the Law School Forum...
Long before the recent demonstrations by Buddhists and students in South Vietnam dramatized the brutal nature of President Ngo Dinh Diem's dictatorship, Western news correspondents in Saigon had been filing reports of government police terror, concentration camps, and general political suppression in the Vietnamese corner of the free world...
Despite Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu's reported assertions that the United States has no right to terminate aid to her country, the $500 million annual bounty ought to be ended and American forces withdrawn unless she and her relatives are reformed or replaced. Continued U.S. aid under present conditions virtually assures complicity in a major calamity. Predictions that the present Diem government will conquer the Vietcong guerrillas are fantasy; hopes for anything better than defeat are generously optimistic...
...from the political ones. Although the White House statement insists that repressive actions by the government "have not yet significantly affected the military effort," it finds the political situation "deeply serious." Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge is just reported to have concluded that the war cannot be won with the Ngo family controlling the government...