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...from Loneliness. For austere, scholarly Ngo Dinh Diem (pronounced 'n go din d'zee-em), President and Premier of the Southeast Asian republic of South Viet Nam, Ike's invitation to make an official state visit was a triumph almost as great as Viet Nam's freedom is a shining vindication of U.S. foreign-aid policies. Less than three years ago Diem was a lonely, almost unknown Vietnamese patriot and onetime provincial governor living in self-imposed exile from French colonial rule-among other places, in the U.S., where he spent several years as a guest...
Like every other chief of state in Southeast Asia. South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem was disturbed by the disproportionate economic influence wielded by his country's closely knit 1,000,000 "overseas Chinese."* In South Viet Nam 75% of the country's rice and corn trade is Chinese-controlled, and Chinese entrepreneurs dominate much of the nation's export-import trade, banking and shopkeeping. President Diem felt that Chinese who lived and worked in South Viet Nam should become Vietnamese citizens. The Chinese, respectable, law-abiding, but ever prideful of their heritage, disagreed...
...scuffling by resentful overseas Chinese was the first outbreak of violence in Saigon in months, and it was no real threat to the regime of Ngo Dinh Diem. Less than three years ago the august Times of London, among other respectable voices, was proclaiming that "Diem has failed as Prime Minister." (The U.S. State Department was resolutely backing him.) Since then, Diem has reorganized his army, defeated and routed the French-supplied guerrilla sects that waged open war on his government and seen a freely elected National Assembly installed in Saigon. Diem's success has also attracted such neutralist...
Indecent-Ridiculous. After the debacle of Dien Bien Phu, Le Van Vien stayed briefly on in the new independent state of South Viet Nam, and even made a brief, last-ditch attempt to hold his ground before the moralistic new broom of Premier Ngo Dinh Diem. Then he prudently fled to Paris, taking with him one wife, a few children and an estimated 3 billion francs ($8,570,000). There in the suburbs, while the remnants of his army intrigued among themselves back home, the old buccaneer settled down to a life of refined retirement. No marquis...
...hopeless struggle of French colonialism to save the truncated country from the onrushing tide of the Communist Viet Minh. As late as two years ago, touring Columnist Joseph Alsop pronounced South Viet Nam doomed. And the French, embarrassed at seeing the U.S. succeed with South Viet Nam's Ngo Dinh Diem where they had failed, whispered that it was only a matter of time...