Vietnam bids fair to become another such secure outpost of the Free World as Formosa. This prospect is due mainly to the remarkable personality, courage and political sagacity of its President, Ngo-Dinh Diem, and to the knowledge of Communism painfully gained by the experience of its people. But credit must also be given to the intelligent policy now being pursued by the United States in this war-torn country, the northern half of which was relinquished to the Communists by the Geneva agreement of July 1954.
The China lesson has been learned. America no longer demands that the people on our side run before they can walk. Instead of hampering, or destroying, President Diem’s authority by requiring that he place “democracy” before security and freedom from the Communist menace, we are backing him in his extraordinarily successful efforts to bring law and order, good government, confidence and a measure of prosperity to his people.
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