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Week 1:

• 1. Vietnam
• 2. Bao Dai
• 3. Ngo dinh Diem
• 4. Ngo dinh Nhu and His In-Laws
• 5. The People Thwarted

Week 2:

• 6. The Binh Xuyen and the Cao Dai Sect
• 7. Nguyen Binh and the Hoa Hao
• 8. The Government American Supported
• 9. The Beleaguered Man

Week 3

• 10. The Battle of Saigon
• 11. New Actors on the Stage
• 12. A Victory for “Democracy”
• 13. The Brainwashing Machine

Week 4

• 14. The “Showcase for Democracy” at Work
• 15. The Blow Falls on South Vietnam’s Chinese
• 16 The Downgrade Becomes Perceptible
• 17. The Police State America Supported

Week 5

• 18. Price Tag for Disaster
• 19. The Chain Reaction
• 20. Prelude to the End

Week 6

• 21. The Scramble to Get Out from Under
• 22. Enter Cabot Lodge
• 23. The Explosion
• Appendix
• About the Author

Discussion Questions, Topics with Links

THE HIDDEN MAN WHO CHANGED YOUR WORLD YouTube Link

JBS List Of Approved Books found in a Bulletin, but we are unsure of the year.

1. Please read, during the month, at least one of the books on our approved list which you have not read before. To simplify matters we are making a part of this bulletin an initial list of approved books. We shall add to that list regularly, as trustworthy new books appear, and from those already published.

We have put this request at the very top of our agenda for January because of its importance. We repeat once again that we are an army fighting with facts; and for us to be better informed is to be better armed.

2. Check with the public libraries in your respective areas as to whether they actually have in stock and readily available for their readers 5 of the books listed below. All of them are revealing “steps to the truth.” It is up to us to do our part to see that the public at least has a chance to read them. And in the course of doing this, checking on five specific books, our members may become more familiar with their local public libraries, better known to the personnel there, more observant of what goes on, and able to exercise a more permanent and more general influence on what those libraries have to offer. The Communists and their socialist allies crept into this field of influencing public opinion long ago. They have been allowed, practically by default, to keep their hands on the rudder which determines the ideological slant of these libraries. Members of The John Birch Society must get their hands on the rudder too.

• Barmine: One Who Survived
• Barron: Inside the State Department
• Bastiat: The Lam
• Bentley: Oat Of Bondage
• Borkenau: European Communism
• Brown: The Enemy At His Back
• Buckley and Bozell: McCarthy And His Enemies
• Budenz: The Techniques Of Communism
• Bundy: Collectivism In The Churches
• Burnham: The Web Of Subversion
• Caldwell: Still The Rice Grows Green
• Caldwell: South Of Tokyo
• Castle: Billions, Blunders And Baloney
• Chamberlin: America’s Second Crusade
• Chambers: Witness
• Ciechanovski: Defeat In Victory
• Creel: Russia’s Race For Asia
• Crocker: Roosevelt’s Road To Russia
• Cvetic: The Big Decision
• Dallin: Soviet Russia And the Far East
• Dallin: Forced Labor In Soviet Russia
• Dayton: Walter Reuther
• Dies: The Trojan Horse In America
• Draskovich: Tito: Moscow’s Trojan Horse
• Eastman: Reflections On The Failure Of Socialism
• Evans: The Secret War For The 3-Bomb
• Fitch: Formosa Beachhead
• Flynn: While You Slept
• Flynn: The Road Ahead
• Fox: The Pentagon Case
• Fuller: Man In Modem Fiction
• Garrett: The People’s Pottage
• Gitlow: The Whole Of Their Lives
• Gordon: Nine Men Against America
• Gutierrez: The Tragedy Of Bolivia
• Hayek: Capitalism And The Historians
• Hayek: The Road To Serfdom
• Hazlitt: Economics In One Easy Lesson
• Heinsohn: One Man’s Fight For Freedom
• Hoover: Masters Of Deceit
• Hughes: Prejudice And The Press
• Hunter: The Black Book On Red China
• Jewkes: Ordeal By Planning
• Jordan: From Major Jordan’s Diarios
• Kilpatrick: The Sovereign States
• Kirk: The Conservative Mind
• Kravchenko: / Chose Freedom
• Knivitzky: In Stalin’s Secret Service
• Kuehnelt-Leddin: Liberty Or Equality
• Lane: I Saw Poland Betrayed
• Lasky and de Toledano: Seeds Of Treason
• Lin Yutang: The Vigil Of A Nation
• Lipper: Eleven Years In Soviet Prison Camps
• Lyons: Assignment In Utopia
• Lyons: The Red Decade
• McCarthy: America’s Retreat From Victory
• Mackiewicz: The Katyn Wood Murders
• Manley: The Twenty Year Revolution
• Martin: Ally Betrayed
• Mikolajczyk: The Rape Of Poland
• Mises: Human Action
• Moorehead: The Traitors
• Moreell: The Admiral’s Log
• Morris: No Wonder We Are Losing
• O’Brien: Thunder From The Left O’Neal and
• Werner: American Communism
• Philbrick: 1 Led Three Lives
• Reinhardt: Crime Without Punishment
• Roe: Juggeraat
• Root: Brainwashing In The High Schools
• Root: Collectivism On The Campus
• Rozek: Allied Wartime Diplomacy
• Rudd: Bending The Twig
• Schmertzing: Outlawing The Communist Party
• Schwarzschild: Karl Marx: The Red Prussian
• Serge: Russia Twenty Years After Shub: Lenin
• Skousen: The Naked Communist.
• Smith: And Madly Teach
• Souvarine: Stalin
• Spencer: The Man Versus The State
• Sumner: What Social Classes Owe To Each Other
• Tansill: Back Door To War
• Teller and Latter: Our Nuclear Future
• Theobald: The Final Secret Of Pearl Harbor
• Utley: The China Story
• Utley: The High Cost Of Vengeance
• Valtin: Out Of The Night
• Veale: Advance To Barbarism
• Van der Vlugt: Asia Aflame
• Weaver: The Mainspring Of Human Progress
• Wedemeyer: Wedemeyer Reports
• Weissberg: The Accused
• Welch: The Life Of John Birch
• White: Report On The Russians
• Widener: Behind The U. N. Front
• Willoughby: Shanghai Conspiracy
• Wittmer: The Conquest Of The American Mind
• Wormser: Foundations: Their Power And Influence
• Workman: The Case For The South (Official Publication Date: January 21, 1960)

Bibliography with Links

Books

• Edwin Hillandale, The Ugly American
• Graham Greene, The Quiet American (Link to The Quiet American motion picture with Michael Caine and Brendan Fraser – on YouTube.)
• Anonymous, Saigon a Vheure des coups d’etats (This book was published in March 1964 by the Communist government in North Vietnam.)
• Lucien Bodard, L’Indo-Chine, Venlisement Charles Bohlen, Bohlen minutes, the Cairo-Teheran papers Joseph Buttinger, The Smaller Dragon , A Political History of Vietnam
• George Chaffard, Indochine, dix arts d’ independence Anthony Eden, memoires Bernard Fall, Street Without Joy
• Russell H. Fifield, Southeast Asia in U.S. Policy Wesley Fishel, Problems of Freedom , South Vietnam since Independence
• J. Laniel, Le drame de Undo-Chine Henri Navarre, L’agonie de VIndo-Chine Oral E. Parks and Milan Jan Reber, Michigan State University bibliography on South Vietnam from 1955 to 1957 Robert G. Scigliano, South Vietnam, Nation under Stress Richard Tregaskis, Vietnam Diary

Articles and Reports

• Joseph Alsop, New York Herald Tribune, European edition, April 11, 12, 14, 18, 1961
• O. K. Armstrong, “Biggest Little Man in East Asia,” Reader’s Digest , February, 1956
• American Friends of Vietnam, “America’s Stake in Vietnam” Anonymous, “The Beleaguered Man,” Time, April 4, 1955 , “Chinoiseries in South Vietnam,” Economist, September 29, 1956
• , “Diem’s Shaky Foundations,” Economist, June 23, 1956
• , “Divided Vietnam: Second Korea,” Progressive, December 1955
• , “Indochina, The Unfinished Struggle,” World Today, January 12, 1956
• , “Should All-Vietnamese Elections be Held?” New Leader, July 11, 1955
• , “South Vietnam — Problem of One Man,” Time, July 11, 1960
• , “Vietnam Stability,” Newsweek, February 17, 1958
• , “Vietnam’s First Lady,” Time, January 26, 1959
• , “Vietnam’s Point of No Return,” Inform, Baltimore, Maryland, July 19, 1962
• , “The Waning Power of France in Vietnam,” World Today , February 12, 1956
• , “Will GI’s Fight in Indochina?” U.S . News & World Report, April 30, 1954
• , The “Z” report, New Republic, March 12, 1962
• , New York Herald Tribune, article on Lawton Collins, April 21, 1955
• , Time, article on Albert Pham ngoc Thao, April 21, 1961
• Leland Barrows, “US-Vietnam Co-operation Program, The ICA Program since 1955,” Department of State Bulletin, May 11, 1959
• Darrel Berrigen, “The Ordeal of South Vietnam,” Reporter, September 20, 1956
• Dennis Bloodworth, Observer Foreign News Service article on Albert Pham ngoc Thao, New York Herald Tribune, European edition, April 21, 1961
• V. L. Borin, “Who Killed Diem and Why?” National Review, June 2, 1964
• Walter Briggs, “Miracle Maker of South Vietnam,” New York Herald Tribune , European edition, May 13, 1957
• Joseph Buttinger, “An Eyewitness Report on South Vietnam,” Reporter, January 27, 1955
• , “Are We Saving South Vietnam?” New Leader, June 27, 1955
• Bob Considine, “Indochina Payoff,” International News Service column, October 17, 1956
• Robert I. Crane, “Dilemma in Indochina,” Christian Century, n.d.
• Brian Crozier, “Anatomy of Terrorism,” Nation, March 21, 1959
• , “The Diem Regime in Southern Vietnam,” Far Eastern Survey , April 1955
• David J. Dallin, “How to Win in Indochina,” New Leader, February 22, 1954
• Hilaire du Berrier, “About South Vietnam,” American Opinion, February 1958
• Bernard Fall, “Master of the Red Jab — Ho chi Minh is Waging the Kind of War that He Knows Best,” Saturday Evening Post, November 24, 1962
• Wesley Fishel, articles, New Leader, November 2, 1959 and December 7, 1959
• Ellen Hammer, “Progress Report on Southern Vietnam,” Pacific Affairs, September 1957
• William Henderson, “Report on Vietnam,” Foreign Affairs, January 1957
• Bill Henry, column, Los Angeles Times , May 16, 1957
• Marguerite Higgins, “Our Country’s Inglorious role in the Final Days of the Diem Regime,” Human Events, March 7, 1964
• David Hotham, “Vietnam — Shaky Bastion,” New Republic, November 25, 1957
• William H. Hunter, “The War in Vietnam, Luce Version,” New Republic, March 23, 1963
• Clement Johnston, “Southeast Asia, Report on United States Foreign Assistance Programs,” committee report, 85th Congress, 1st session, survey number 7, March 1957
• Peter Kalischer, “Upsetting the Red Timetable,” Collier’s , July 6, 1956
• Stanley Kamow, “Diem Defeats his own Best Troops,” Reporter , January 19, 1961
• “The Edge of Chaos,” Saturday Evening Post , September 28, 1963
• John F. Kennedy, speech on Vietnam, Vital Speeches o* the Day , August 1, 1956
• Wolf Ladejinsky, “Vietnam’s First Five Years,” Reporter, December 24, 1959
• Claire Booth Luce, “The Lady is for Burning,” National Review, November 5, 1963
• Mike Mansfield, “Report by Senator Mike Mansfield on a Study Mission to Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos,” Senate Foreign Relations Committee, October 1954
• “Reprieve in Vietnam,” Harper’s , January 1956
• Harold H. Martin, “Fighting an Unseen Enemy,” Saturday Evening Post, November 24, 1962 Stanley Millet, “Terror in Vietnam — An American’s Ordeal at the Hand of our ‘Friends’,” Harper’s , September 1962 Joseph Nerbonne, “President Diem Fools Vietnam’s Pessimists,” Associated Press article, Los Angeles Times, May 5, 1957
• Ngo dinh Thuc, “What’s Really Going on in Vietnam,” National Review , November 5, 1963 Milton Orshevsky, “Joan of Arc or Dragon Lady?” Life, October 26, 1963
• John Osborne, “The Tough Miracle Man of Vietnam,” Life, May 13, 1957
• Jerry A. Rose, “Hot War on One Burner,” Book Week , December 22, 1963
• Milton Sachs, “Political Alignments of Vietnamese Nationalists,” Department of State, Office of Intelligence and Research, report number 3708, 1949 Robert Shaplen, “The Enigma of Ho chi Minh,” Reporter, n.d. David Shoenbrun, “Bao Dai,” Collier’s, September 30, 1955 Robert Trumbull, “ ‘Mandarin’ Who Rules South Vietnam,” New York Times Magazine, January 7, 1962 Freda Utley, “The Amazing Mr. Diem,” National Review, November 24, 1956

Notes on the Bibliography

• The article by Mr. Rose, listed above, is a review of six books on Vietnam: Vietnam Diary, by Richard Tregaskis; The
• Two Vietnams, by Bernard Fall; Communism in North Vietnam, by Patrick J. Honey; The Furtive War: The United States in Vietnam and Laos, by Wilfred G. Burchett; Southeast Asia: Problems of United States Policy, by William Henderson; and Southeast Asia in U.S. Policy, by Russell H. Fifield. Burchett is an Australian Communist who has spent some time living with the Vietminh in North Vietnam.
• The New York Times, February 12, 1965, gave a report on another Burchett book that is nothing more nor less than antiAmerican propaganda. The report is as follows: “Vietcong , by a Friend — A book about the Vietcong forces that operate in South Vietnam, written by Wilfred G. Burchett, the Moscow correspondent of a number of communist newspapers, will be published at the end of the month by International Publishers Associates of New York. It is ‘Vietnam: Dark Tunnel to Disaster — The Story from the Inside.’ The publishers explain that Mr. Burchett’s book is ‘an account of what he saw and learned during six months with the Liberation forces in South Vietnam.’ An article by Mr. Burchett telling of his experiences with the Vietcong appeared in a Soviet military weekly in December, 1963.”
• The article by Mr. Sachs, listed above, is quite simply a whitewash of the Communist Vietminh. At the date of this writing Mr. Sachs is a professor at Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts