... as the new standard and offer a more accurate translation. Ngô Đình Diệm did not answer the missive, and the frustrated Trần Văn Văn decided to call a press conference on April 30, 1960, at the new Caravelle Hotel in downtown Sài Gòn to publicize the letter. 31 He and Phan Khắc Sửu went...

...Nu-Anh Tran The famous writer and revolutionary Nhất Linh (Nguyễn Tường Tam) committed suicide on July 7, 1963, in protest against Ngô Đình Diệm, the first president of the Republic of Vietnam (RVN, or South Vietnam). Although largely ignored by Western scholars, the suicide was a major catalyst...

...Mitchell Tan This article elucidates the role of personalism in Ngô Đình Diệm’s relations with his principal anticommunist allies in Asia by considering the First Republic’s involvement in the Asian Peoples’ Anti-Communist League and Moral Re-Armament. These organizations provided crucial...

...Sean Fear Although recent English-language Vietnam War scholarship has devoted considerable attention to reassessing the Ngô Đình Diệm era, contemporaneous South Vietnamese interpretations of the president’s tenure have been largely overlooked. Contrary to prevailing assumptions that his influence...

... of the departure of the Việt Minh cadres relocated to the North, as required by the Geneva Accords. Over time, the Special Commissariat would become tied into Ngô Đình Diệm's larger nation-building agenda of creating a viable, noncommunist South Vietnam capable of standing independently among the nations of the so...

... practitioners. © 2011 by the Regents of the University of California diaspora religious doctrine nationalist politics temporality Ðạo Cao Ðài Ngô Ðình Diêm Research essay Janet Hoskins Diaspora as Religious Doctrine: An Apostle of Vietnamese Nationalism Comes to California In 1964, V n Lý...

...Jessica M. Chapman The sect crisis represented a critical turning point in South Vietnam. This article examines the spring 1955 clash between Prime Minister Ngô Đình Diệm and his challengers among the Hóa Hảo, Cao Đàai, and Bính Xuyên politico-religious sects in light of French and American...