LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600010035-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 3, 1999
• Sequence Number: 35
• Publication Date: November 19, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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CPYRGHT
Nan Dinh Diem
cannot
without paying my respects
to the memory of a brave man'
who died for his country a?
year ago - Ngo Dinh Diem,
former President of the Re-.
public of Viet-Nam. Events in
Viet-Nam since his overthrow,
and assassination lai t Novem
ber throw light upon some Of
the problems he faced during,
his eight years as president of
that turbulent; country.
His government's achieve
t ments under difficult con-
ditions-schools, roads, hos-
pitals, air-strips, land reform,
the creation of defense forces',
and instilling the will to resist,
-still stand as major obsta
Iles to Communist victory
there.
The death of Ngo Dinh Diem
casts a long shadow over his
troubled land-a shadow which
reaches far beyond his own'
country. But Diem was a
patriot, and I am sure that his.
'Wish for his people now, as
it was throughout the years I.
knew him, is for their success'
An their 'struggle for national
survival, political progress and
FREDERICK E.. NOLTING
(The author was U.S. Ambassador
. to Viet-Nam i~61 63.)
New York
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