{"title":"Counter-Insurgency and Nation Building: The Strategic Hamlet Programme in South Vietnam, 1961–1963","authors":"P. Catton","doi":"10.1080/07075332.1999.9640883","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Bernard noted that information on Ngo Dinh Diem, South Vietnam's president between 1955 and 1963, consisted 'either of totally uncritical eulogy or of equally partisan condemnation'.1 On the one hand, there were the hagiographies. These included potted histories and official biographies, as well as articles in US newspapers and magazines which had originally praised the Vietnamese leader as 'the tough miracle man of Vietnam'.2 On the other hand, there were the condemnations, particularly those made by Diem's Communist opponents and the growing number of Western critics. The Vietnamese Communists branded Diem as a reac-","PeriodicalId":46534,"journal":{"name":"INTERNATIONAL HISTORY REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5000,"publicationDate":"1999-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07075332.1999.9640883","citationCount":"16","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"INTERNATIONAL HISTORY REVIEW","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07075332.1999.9640883","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"HISTORY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Bernard noted that information on Ngo Dinh Diem, South Vietnam's president between 1955 and 1963, consisted 'either of totally uncritical eulogy or of equally partisan condemnation'.1 On the one hand, there were the hagiographies. These included potted histories and official biographies, as well as articles in US newspapers and magazines which had originally praised the Vietnamese leader as 'the tough miracle man of Vietnam'.2 On the other hand, there were the condemnations, particularly those made by Diem's Communist opponents and the growing number of Western critics. The Vietnamese Communists branded Diem as a reac-
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