REVOLT IN VIETNAM
Britain Denies Aiding Rebels (Rec. 11 p.m.) SAIGON, November 18. The British Ambassador, Mr Harold Hohler, has protested to President Ngo Dinh Diem against Vietnamese charges blaming Britain, the United States, and France for helping rebels in the recent coup attempt, it was reliably reported. The protest was made after distribution by the powerful Citizens' Anti-Rebel and AntiCommunist Committee blaming British “colonialists and imperialists.” The Ambassador said the charge of aiding the rebels was “totally false,” informed sources said. The strongly anti-Western overtones emerged in Saigon just a week after paratroops tried to seize power in a thwarted coup d’etat.
The Vietnamese charges, made on various Government and private levels, follow two lines—that some “foreign elements” may have had a hand in encouraging the paratroops to violence, and that over the last months there has been a "campaign of disparagement” against the Government.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29366, 19 November 1960, Page 13
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