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    Vietnam Under the Shadows
    Vietnam Under the Shadows
    Vietnam Under the Shadows
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    Vietnam Under the Shadows

    By R.K Karanjia and Gloria Arora

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    GLORIA ARORA has been a Journalist for several years, he is a serious student of the contemporary scene. She has not yet been affected by the cynicism or the complacency which many journalists affect. That she has survived two years in BLITZ Newspaper is a tribute to her idealism and faith in the profession. This publication bespeaks her cosmopolitan interests that she should have written about the trials and tribulations of the Viet-Namese people. The book is its own recommendation.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris AU
    Release dateFeb 22, 2014
    ISBN9781493135301
    Vietnam Under the Shadows
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    R.K Karanjia

    GLORIA ARORA has been a Journalist for several years, he is a serious student of the contemporary scene. She has not yet been affected by the cynicism or the complacency which many journalists affect. That she has survived two years in BLITZ Newspaper is a tribute to her idealism and faith in the profession. This publication bespeaks her cosmopolitan interests that she should have written about the trials and tribulations of the Viet-Namese people. The book is its own recommendation.

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      Vietnam Under the Shadows - R.K Karanjia

      Copyright © 2014 by Gloria Arora.

      ISBN:   Softcover   978-1-4931-3529-5

            Ebook   978-1-4931-3530-1

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted

      in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system,

      without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the

      product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance

      to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

      Rev. date: 02/18/2014

      To order additional copies of this book, contact:

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      CONTENTS

      Foreword

      Chapter I    Background And History Of Ngo Dinh Diem’s Regime

      Chapter II    Government Lapses & Religious Clashes

      Chapter III    Madam Nhu’s Role

      Chapter IV    World Reaction And U.s. Involvements

      Chapter V    Political Atmosphere In Hot Furnace

      Chapter VI    Military Revolutionary Committee

      Chapter VII    The National Liberation Front (Viet Cong)

      Chapter VIII    Seventh Fleet Invades The Gulf Of Tonkin

      Chapter IX    Attacks And Counter Attacks

      Chapter X    American Aid And Western Investments

      Chapter XI    Triumvirate Government And Its Dissolution

      Chapter XII    A 17 Member Council Leads The Country

      Chapter XIII    Neutralisation Of South Viet-Nam

      Chapter XIV    Bin Gia Battle And Khanh’s Return To Power

      Chapter XV    United States Public Opinion

      Chapter XVI    War On North Viet-Nam And Sounding Russia

      Chapter XVII    Crisis

      Chapter XVIII    Destructive Power Unleashed

      Chapter XIX    Russian Threat Of Cuba Type Missile

      Chapter XX    Peace At Any Cost

      The pressing need for a concise, factual and authoritative book on the happenings in VIETNAM had so far been ignored and neglected. The Author, therefore, took it upon herself to shoulder the task to bring to light in this book all available material on the subject in an authentic chronological manner––thus presenting a picture of bigotry, a fallen nation and aggression by an imperialist power acting contrary to the interests of VIETNAM in South East Asia, and peace, in general, in the rest of the world.

      VIETNAM UNDER THE SHADOWS, written by Gloria Arora, a journalist and a member of the BLITZ Staff, is a very authentic book written in a simple language. The book is very timely, makes excellent reading and is very informative.

      FOREWORD

      In the crucible of history, Viet-Nam has already found its place of glory and tragedy along with Sarajevo and Danzig. Like these two remote spots—Sarajevo in Yugoslavia, which became the immediate cause for the First World War; and Danzig in Poland, which played a similar role in connection with the Second World War—Viet-Nam was not much known before the American intervention and Chinese strategy made it the battleground for a mutual contest for power and prestige. If Viet-Nam has not already heralded the Third World War, it is only because the spirit of peace, with which India’s and Nehru’s names are so gloriously linked, has refused to be vanquished by the demon of war.

      Naturally, the contestants have woven webs of falsehood around the Viet-Namese realities. They have done so, as they did around the Sarajevo and Danzig realities, with a view to confusing and confounding the world public opinion and covering their own sins of omission and commission. It is only when the peoples of the world are denied access to Truth that the war-mongers can get away with their foul play.

      Gloria Arora has done a great service to the supreme cause of peace by preparing this solid and scholarly monograph on the truth about Viet-Nam. It is written in simple, uninhibited style, and based entirely on proven facts. It would be useful to the average citizen as well as to the scholar in understanding the developments in Viet-Nam which might affect the destiny not only of our generation but also that of mankind for all time to come.

      There is one special merit of this monograph. It is written by a woman who is an Iraqi Arab and has adopted India as her native land. Thus, in more sense than one, it is a book with an authentic Afro-Asian authorship. Naturally, it will be welcome to all.

      —R. K. KARANJIA.

      CHAPTER I

      Background And History of Ngo Dinh Diem’s Regime

      Part I

      Ngo Dinh Diem was born in 1901 in Hue, in South Viet Nam. A Roman Catholic by faith, he belonged to the mandarin class of nobility of Viet Nam—a sect notorious for its religious fanaticism. He entered the services of Emperor Bao Dai of Annam (unified Viet-Nam) at a very young age, rising to the post of Minister of the Interior in 1933.

      Very ambitious and full of revolutionary ideas he sought to introduce extensive reforms to the stalling administration of Bao Dai, and bring about certain changes in the Government—but they were not accepted.

      When his reform-proposals were rejected Ngo Dinh Diem resigned from the post he held as a minister and left politics. For twenty years thereafter he lived in what he called self imposed retirement from politics, and ultimately in 1949, out of sheer frustration and disgust, left the country and went into voluntary exile in the United States and later on to France. While he was away he kept a sharp eye on and keen contacts with his country, and watched the passing phases and events in the shaping of its history.

      During the span of twenty years absence of Ngo Dinh Diem from Viet-Nam’s political scene, many great events took place in the country. World War II broke out and after the fall of France in June 1940, the French Governor General Georges Catraux was replaced by Admiral Jean Decoux, a nominee of the Vichy Government.

      In 1940, the Japanese Government managed to secure the use of the bases in Tonkin for their operations against China, and by 1941 they had gained monopoly of Viet-Nam’s rice fields and rubber plantations. By July 1941 the Japanese defeated the French and took over South Viet-Nam. However, in 1945, after the bombing of Hiroshima the Japanese withdrew, leaving the country in chaos. In the North, the Viet Minh seized power under the leadership of Ho Chi Minh and set up an Administrative Committee in place of the Mandarin rulers.

      Part II

      France never gave up her claim over Viet-Nam, and on March 6, 1946, French troops under General Jacques Leclerc, landed at Hai-Phong and occupied Hanoi. Ho Chi Minh was very much disturbed and sought an accord with France. He went to Fontainebleau for negotiations with the French Government, but his talks did not prove successful.

      On November 23, 1946, there were clashes between French troops and Viet Minh army. A series of clashes followed, and on December 19, 1946, in a desperate attempt to drive away the French from Vietnamese soil the Viet Minh army attacked the French forces, failed to overcome or defeat them and subsequently had to flee and take refuge in the jungles. This marked the beginning of the Indo-China war and Viet Minh’s guerilla warfare.

      The French, stronger and far better equipped than the Viet Minh army, fought their way through and occupied the Tonkin Delta (North Viet-Nam). Shortly thereafter, Central and South Viet-Nam was added to their map of colonisation and Saigon was made the Capital.

      The Viet Minh controlled the hinterland and part of Central Viet-Nam. They, however, had a very large number of sympathisers in the South who continuously harassed the French by guerilla methods.

      Part III

      Bao Dai’s repeated approach to France ultimately had some definite results, for the French Government at last agreed to reach at an agreement with the Viet-Namese by addressing their former Emperor for negotiations. On March 8, 1949 an agreement proclaiming the independence of Viet-Nam within the French Union was reached at between the French and Bao Dai Governments.

      The area then known as Cochin-China was transferred to Bao Dai’s territory. An army was created to supplement the French forces and give France the absolute control in case of any unforeseen difficulties that might follow thereafter. But conditions under Bao Dai and his Government were not happy ones. Political strifes were rampant and the situation deteriorated further creating still more

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