The lost mandate of heaven : the American betrayal of Ngo Dinh Diem, President of Vietnam / Geoffrey D.T. Shaw ; with a foreword by James V. Schall, S.J.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-297) and index.
Contents:
Diplomacy in South Vietnam from the late 1950s to 1960 -- U.S. Ambassador Elbridge Durbrow -- Enter Ambassador Frederick Nolting -- The continuing Laotian question -- The counterinsurgency plan -- Policemen versus soldiers -- The abrogation of Nolting's rapprochement -- Nolting's rearguard action -- The decline of the Nolting influence -- The Buddhist crisis of 1963 -- Washington isolate Diem -- Nolting's farewell -- Washington moves for a coup.
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