PERSONS/ENTITIES: Diem
DATES: Summer 1963
CATEGORIES: Diem
OCCURRENCE:
"....Diem was not conforming to Western standards of democracy. And this was really the heart of the case against him. Implicit in their criticism was the assumption that Occidental style democracy was, in fact, the answer to Oriental Vietnam's problems. It was an assumption with which Ngo Dinh Diem disagreed on both practical and philosophical grounds."

SOURCE: "Our Vietnam Nightmare", Marguerite Higgins, Harper & Row, 1965, p. 165
STAFF: Dawson
FILE:
DATE: July 2, 1975
PERSONS/ENTITIES: Thich Tri Quang, McNamara, Diem
DATES: Summer, 1963
CATEGORIES: Diem
OCCURRENCE:
Higgins states in her book that, "Washington generated pressure on Diem for conciliation was based on the assumption that Thich Tri Quang's grievances concerning flags and such were what motivated his Budist protest movement. But it was evident that what Thich Tri Quang wanted was a pretext to see. His objective was not a solution, but nonetheless than Diem's head.
"Perhaps Diem might have had a better image in the United States if he had personally shown immediate public concern for the victims of the Hue tragedy. He then instantly order generous indemnification for the families who suffered losses, but this was never publicized. Perhaps he was too inwardly assured of his innocence was Diem that he did not of going through the trouble of proving it. He would certainly (continued on card) have faced standing the key of the Catholic (illegible) of the Hue.
SOURCE: Our Vietnam Nightmare by Marguerite Higgins, Harper and Rowe
STAFF: Dawson
DATE: July 3, 1975