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...people of Viet Nam, whether Christian or Buddhist, an unburied body is weight on the conscience of living men; its unseated soul wanders endlessly among the living, begging for suitable sepulcher. In the year in which Premier-President Ngo Dinh Diem has presided over the precarious young state of South Viet Nam, there has never been far from his mind the need to set one such wandering soul at rest...
...general slaughter in central Annam following Emperor Bao Dai's surrender to the Communists back in 1945, Diem's brother Ngo Dinh Khoi and his eldest son were dragged out of their home and whisked away in a green Citroen to be shot near the village of Co Bi in the high, jagged mountains of the Chaine Annamatique. "I remember my brother Khoi," says Diem, who fled into hiding at the time. "He was the brightest son of our family of twelve, a tall, handsome man. The welfare of the people was his life's work...
...nine years after Khoi's murder, the village of Co Bi remained under Communist control, making it impossible for members of the Roman Catholic Ngo family to find their relative's body. When at last the Reds were driven out, the local peasants were too afraid to talk. One ancient sampan man confessed that he had heard the shots and described the area where the murder had taken place. He promptly disappeared. An old ex-Communist surrendered to Diem's forces and admitted his son had taken part in the kidnaping, but the son had fled...
Rescued from the unhallowed earth, the bodies were removed, placed in coffins and carried back to the family vault at Phu-cam, while 75.000 Vietnamese watched in awed silence. "His spirit infuses our people during this renaissance of independence," said Ngo Dinh Diem...
Married. Tran Trung Dung, 42, Vietnamese Deputy Minister for National Defense since March 1955; and Nguyen Thi Hoang Anh ("The Nightingale"), 21, doll-like niece of Premier Ngo Dinh Diem; in a Roman Catholic ceremony; in Hue, Viet...