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363-08113 to 363-08116
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Title
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Article about the South Vietnamese response to the Mansfield Report
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Description
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Article draft about the South Vietnamese response to the Mansfield Report, for the Washington Post
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Draft transcripts were automatically generated via Google Document AI and are currently under review. Please report significant errors to Archives & Special Collections at archives@unl.edu.
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Beverly Despe
101 t ng ly
Saigong Vi t làm
Saigon, South Viet Nam-A delicate diplomatic tug-of-war is infiltrating
into this already battleweary country.
The Vietnamese government's counter to the Mansfield Report, calling
it "particularly unfair, is the most recent development in high-level
(in the name of
American-Vietnamese differences. The government statement, issued the
Personalist Community Bloc in the National Assembly, ma the first official
romotionfa
to the report and the government's first
admission that the Mansfield Report on Vietnam existed. Previous newspaper
carried highlights of the comments on the
accounts h
Philippines.
American officials here "breathed a sigh of relief" when first
reading the Mansfield Report, thinking that it would not exacerbate the
United States-Vietnamese relations. But this week's statement from the
National Assembly group indicated that the report had some stinging effects.
The appeal in the Mansfield Report for a "great mobilization
of selfless Vietnamese leadership" was countered by the statement of the
Personalist Community Bloo that "it is the inalienable right of the
government...to accept into its midst only the elements it deams
irreproachable.../"
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An influential Vietnamese government official once explained, "Diem
(President Ngo Dinh Diem) doesn't worry if the American press is against
him. He morries only if the American presa end the American government
are against him." The Mansfield Report, the first high-level,
bipartisan doubt case on the Vietnamese effort, wma, more significantly,
written by a commission honded by "an old friend" of the Diem Regime.
It s ten. Mike Mansfield (DeMont.) who in 1955 urged the United States
to support the newly-independent country.
"The Mansfield Report is sort of in the same wave length as the whole
mood of everything in Vietnam," one official explained. "There's a tendency
that's been developing for two or three months for a harder American
attitude. There's a hardening of our relationship (with the Vietnamese
government)subtly almost invisibly."
At the heart of the differences is the Impatient American, a fast-gliding,
man-on-the-go who wants to win the war and win it fast. "The American
attitude is why walk when you on run," one American laughed. "The
Vietnamese attitude is why walks when you can sit."
Or as Gen. Pail D. Harkins, hand of the Military Assistance Command,
expressed it, "We (Americans) know that Rome wasn't built in a day, so we put on
night shift."
Yet, the harder the Americans push, the louder the Vietnamese screams
of infringement of national sovereignty. A vague, un-named slap at the
Mansfield Report was made by President Diem's powerful sister-in-law,
Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu, when she explained, "Let the Free World understand,
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then, that in this impious war imposed on us by the comnmist...it is not
possible that our right of initiative be questioned or our self-determination...
be slighted."
Once described an "a female Charlie Bartlett," Madame Nbu is often used
as an unofficial government spokesman for anti-American remarks, which
counter the Communist propaganda line calling Diem a puppet of
the United States.
The linnsfield Report added to Vietnamese fears that the American government
would shift their support from the Diem regimo. President Diem's brother and
influential political advisor, Ngo Dinh thu, is reported to have recently
told one American official that the government feared either an American
policy of neutrality for South Viet Nam, an in Laos,
inspired coup d'etat.
an America
Two weeks ago, a prominent Saigon lawyer, Truong Dinh Dzu, was taken
into custody on charges of embezzlement, according to the semi-official
government news agency. However, usually reliable Vietnamese sources said the
reason for the arrest of Dau, former
governor for the Rotary Club of
for Southeast Asin, was "politics. Ho we too friendly with Americans."
The struggle between the Vietnamese government and American officialdom
here is admittedly shadowy, mostly unseen, unmentioned. Yet, prior
to the Monafield Peport, these developments had already surfaced. In early
February, the Vietnamese-language weekly, Whan Quyen (Human Rights), charged
that "herever leading authorities or elemonts refuse to go to Americans, do
not agree to be under their sny, do not close their eyes to let Amoricens
take my coonomio resouroos, the United States immediately thinks about a
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coup d'etat and rebellion plots." The editor, Ha Duo Minh, claimed to be
member of Nhu's political party.
where the local press is
Surprisingly, in country
vernment-controlled in
varying degrees, the paper was not suspended until the end of February.
Ambasador Frederick E. Holting, Jr., countered
In mid-February, U.
by calling for a "bridge of wind understanding" and appealed for
"a mutual sense of tolerance toward each other, and a mutual confidence
in our purposes." He added, "re should never try to 'out smart' each other in
this joint onterprise we are involved in,"
Two weeks later, the ammunition of the Mansfield Commission hit Viet Nam.
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Date
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Unknown
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Subject
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Vietnam, 1961-1975;
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Location
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Saigon, South Vietnam
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Coordinates
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10.8231; 106.6311
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Size
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20 x 26 cm
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Container
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B2, F1
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Format
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dispatches
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Collection Number
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MS 363
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Collection Title
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Beverly Deepe Keever, Journalism Papers
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Creator
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Keever, Beverly Deepe
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Collector
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Keever, Beverly Deepe
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Copyright Information
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These images are for educational use only. To inquire about usage or publication, please contact Archives & Special Collections.
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Publisher
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Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
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Language
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English
