--- title: Ngo Dinh Diem of Viet-Nam (Presidency press office booklet, Saigon 1957), 'Highlights of President Ngo Dinh Diem's Government', page 5 url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/diem-highlights-henderson-quote-booklet-1957/ description: A typeset page opens a chronology of the first three years of Diem's government with two phrases from William Henderson in Foreign Affairs (January… section: Collection --- [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) [![Ngo Dinh Diem of Viet-Nam (Presidency press office booklet, Saigon 1957), 'Highlights of President Ngo Dinh Diem's Government', page 5](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/diem-highlights-henderson-quote-booklet-1957.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/diem-highlights-henderson-quote-booklet-1957.jpg) # Ngo Dinh Diem of Viet-Nam (Presidency press office booklet, Saigon 1957), 'Highlights of President Ngo Dinh Diem's Government', page 5 A typeset page opens a chronology of the first three years of Diem's government with two phrases from William Henderson in Foreign Affairs (January 1957), 'a wholly unexpected political miracle' and 'one of the great figures of twentieth Century Asia'. The tell: a named outside authority is quoted first, before any dated event, so the vouching frames how the list below it is read. ## Text on the object Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` HIGHLIGHTS OF PRESIDENT NGO DINH DIEM'S GOVERNMENT (17 June 1954 — 17 April 1957) « A wholly unexpected political miracle has occured in South Viet Nam » and « History may yet adjudge Diem as one of the great figures of twentieth Century Asia ». Thus wrote William Henderson in Foreign Affairs (January 1957). President Ngo Dinh Diem will long be remembered in Viet Nam as a man who restored peace, order, stability, confidence, national pride to his country ; fought vice, corruption, colonialism ; and above all, as a man who has said « boo » to the Communists, and checked their advance in Viet Nam, and perhaps also, in South East Asia. The principal achievements of President Ngo Dinh Diem in his two and a half years in office are summarized below. 17 June 1954 : Mr. Ngo Dinh Diem accepted the Presidency of the Government of Viet Nam on the condition that he be given full civil and military powers. 25 June 1954 : President Ngo Dinh Diem landed in Saigon from Paris. 7 July 1954 : President Ngo Dinh Diem formed his first Government. 21 July 1954 : The Geneva Armistice was concluded against Vietnam's will. President Ngo Dinh Diem instructed his Foreign Minister not to sign the Geneva agreements. 5 ``` Transcribed from the Commons page-5 image of the PDF; the spelling 'occured' is as printed. The 'Digitized by Google' watermark is omitted. [← "Denkt an Ungarn: Seid wachsam!" CDU poster, 1957 Bundestag election](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/cdu-denkt-an-ungarn-1957/) [Ingat! Inilah Irian Barat kita jang masih didjadjah Belanda (Remember! 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