Tradition In Action, Allan W. Royce: In The Lost Mandate of Heaven, Dr. Geoffrey Shaw tells the tragic story of the life and death of Ngo Dinh Diem, president of South Vietnam. It is a history somewhat reminiscent of the life and … Continue reading
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Vietnam: After 50 Years Government Allows Public Mass for President Diem
AsiaNews: For the first time in 50 years, Vietnam’s Catholic community was able to celebrate a public Mass in memory of the President of the Republic of Vietnam Jean-Baptiste Ngo Dinh Diem, who was assassinated along with his brother in a … Continue reading
Louis Blanqui and the Leninist Concept of ‘Enlightened Terror’
On 4 June 1960, one month before I was to enter the United States Military Academy as a seventeen-year-old New Cadet, an article was published that was later to illuminate much reality for me as a military officer—especially about the … Continue reading
Giving a Free Hand to the Assassins
Robert Hickson’s thoughtful reflections on U.S. complicity in the assassination of Vietnam’s Catholic President, Ngo Dinh Diem. It introduces Marguerite Higgins’ 1965 book on Vietnam, Our Vietnam Nightmare. The photos used came from the Ngo Dinh Diem Webpage. Click here to … Continue reading
