Article on the Ngô Đình Diệm coup anniversary

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Article on the Ngô Đình Diệm coup anniversary
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Article by Keever, sent to Rosenfeld, on the one year anniversary of the coup against Ngô Đình Diệm
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23180 prorosenfeld sundayer one anatomyve revolution saigon
dash aye year ago noxt week vietnam witnessed birthve military
revolutionary government otdeathve ngodinhdion regime stoppara
tanks paratroopers marinos exploded on stoetsve saigon
dash aye phenomena that was to become aye past time in months
to come stoppara
deathve diem inc ended eye dictatorship dash perhaps
more accurately aye demidictatorship stop and it ended aye
decade stoppara
diem toppled in onove most controversial coup detatsve
all time with worldwide repercussions stop for vietnam viewed
as aye ladderve many conflicts stop on highest round is
freeworld versus communist semicolon specially unistates
versus novietnam etchina stop in miniature within vietnam tis
americanbacked saigon government versus communistled
liberation front semicolon in warweary delta this american
national
Esciii etvietnamese trooper versus vietcong guerrilla moredoope.
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23181 prorosenfeld sundayer two weaknessve diem wasnot that
he failed in anything in particular but halfsucceeded in
everything dash but norptnot government since him has halftried
stop programs he implemented dash poorly undash since beom only
halfimplemented or forgotten stop his obsession was his country
would be divided by communists in northern provinces dash now
that obsession aye semireality stop his approach was to quote
beat the communists by being better communists tactically
unquote unquotestop he failed stop but norptnot government
since had total policyve boating communists atall stoppara
first alternative to diem was aye committee governmentve
military junta stop expectation was talented military officers
would quote win supportve people unquote while vigorously
prosecuting war stop but vietcong incidents reached alltime
high stop important strategic hamlet program crashed bringing
down with it the statistical illusion that the war was being
won stoppara
predictions were first junta would last ninety days
stop lasted eightynine stoppara morodeepe
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23183 prorosenfeld sundayer three second alternative dien was
another strongman stop when general nguyen thanh become premier
january thirty washington attempted give him magical prestige
stop menamera came one month somicolon rusk next stop midaugust
khanh legalised his strongman position with infamous constitution
stop had succeeded if students been studying ethuddhist priests
praying their pagodas stop but they weronotrptnot stop otsomewhere
quote invisible hands ungote communist subversives appeared stop
after bloody demonstrations etreligious rioting khanh vowed
downstop october twentyseven stop during past two months khanh
policy simply oneve survival semicolon unistates policy simple
quote back every status quo in night comaunquote according
western diplomat moredeepe
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23184 prorosonfold sundayer four oneyear following diom
doath viotmam travelled fullcircle ottortured oneyearve time
stop newlyannounced provisional constitution provides single
strongman liko khanh and diems dech but that strongman can
be neither diem nor khanh otprobably notrptnot strongman
atall stoppara
crucial deterioration within past year is that this
idahosised republic fragmented politically from two vietnams
into three vietnams stoppara
under diem there were two political and military
vietnams dash his and communists. stoppara since diem two
military vietnams but three political vietnams dash theres
aye state within aye state within a state dash aye government
within aye government within aye government stop third
political government is buddhists movement that sparked
diem coup against dien etthe denicoup against khanh stoppara
moredeope
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23185 prorosenfeld sundayer five through past three years
military war escalated internally as both communists etsaigon
increased their dominations over quote contested areas unquote
stop military war polariséd semicolon countryside increasingly
become either black or white stop military stalemate was
prodicted stoppara
politically however a giant grey mass emerged between
black political stateve communists etwhite political stateve
provestern camp stop this grey mass revolves predominantly
a round buddhists stoppara
tis considered now buddhist movement is political
movement surviving only by being aye movementve protest stop
steadve declaring war on communists however buddhists have said
their immediate enemies are catholics comma americans etsaigon
government stop by being as oppositionist to anticommunist
forces ema buddhist policies in effect are aiding communists
stoppara
saigon government therefore consider buddhists as
quote second onomy stopunquote etduring past year saigon made
substantial concessions to them stop hence saigon government
malcing concession to quote second enemy unquote on the political
battlefront while fighing its communist first enemy on military
front stop by making concessions to buddhists dash who are
neither ally nor neutral undash saigon government has relinquished
its jurisdiction to buddhists stop its state grown smaller
A hit atata hee como manadoona.
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23190 prorosonfeld sundayer six increasing political dominance
buddhists dash of which many leaders now considered procommunist
undash has exploded aye popular myth about anticommunist var
stoppara
myth is that americanbacked governments dash from
dien to khanh undash notrptnot solved problemsve guerrilla
warfare stop fact is notrptnot solved problemsve countering
communist ideology otsubversion stop anticommunist war hore
is not pinot fight against guerrillas stop it nover was though
amorican policymakers thought so for years stop once upon
aye time it may have been half the war stop but two months
ago it became less than falf the war as students buddhists
workers comna presumably influenced by communists comma
continually undermined thanh government stop until past two
months ago american policymakers hadnot drawn distinction
between military guerrilla et the political revolutionary or
subversive stop now armerican officials believe communists
tactics shifted from military to political stop but longtime
observers believe political subversion consistently been
predominant cnathough invisible stop the real change appea ra
to be that political subversion shifted from rural areas to
the urban areas in central vietnam etsaigon moredeepe.
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23191 prorosenfeld sundayer seven quote wove always paid
lipservice to fact this is political wells military war
cmaquote ono american official explained stopquote but wo
never have done anything about it stop even now we are adding
fivethousand more mon but theyre helicopter pilots etnotrpnot
intelligence officers stop we still have not ptnot corrected
mistakeve underestimating the political problems stopunquote
the new saigon government that will be born next
wook faces almost seven yearsve unchecked communist political
subversion plus increased military strength stoppara
the fundamental misjudgementve american policy
appears to have been fighting the guerrillas while forgetting
the subversive stop it may well be too late to reverse it in
vietnam stop the challenge is to correct it in the vietnam
of the tomorrows dash in south american etafrice etafrica
stoppara
tomorrow colon tho warve shadows ettermites
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Date
1964, Oct.
Subject
Vietnam, 1961-1975; Ngô, Đình Diệm, 1901-1963; Vietnam (Republic); Vietnam (Republic)--History--Coup d'état, 1963
Location
Saigon, South Vietnam
Coordinates
10.8231; 106.6297
Size
20 x 26 cm
Container
B3, F5
Format
dispatches
Collection Number
MS 363
Collection Title
Beverly Deepe Keever, Journalism Papers
Creator
Keever, Beverly Deepe
Collector
Keever, Beverly Deepe
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Publisher
Archives & Special Collections
Language
English