MADAME NHU ASKS U.S. TO 'GUARANTEE' HER SAFE PASSAGE BACK TO SOUTH VIETNAM
Los Angeles, California (JFK+50) On November 4, 1963, The Evening Star reports that Mrs. Ngo Dinh Nhu* "has asked the United States to guarantee her safety so she may return" to South Vietnam to care for her dead husband and remove her three young children.
Madame Nhu is blaming the U.S. government for the coup that resulted in the deaths of President Ngo Dinh Diem and Ngo Dinh Nhu.
In a telegram to Secretary of State Dean Rusk**, Mrs. Nhu requested the U.S. Embassy in Saigon "guarantee" her safety returning home from the United States.
JFK+50 NOTE
Madame Nhu was touring the United States in October/November 1963 speaking & lobbying in defense of the regime of her brother-in-law President Diem & her husband. She was critical of Kennedy administration policies in Southeast Asia.
*Le Xuan, aka Madame Nhu, (1955-1963) was born in Hanoi, French Indo China served as 1st Lady of South Vietnam as President Diem was not married & she lived in the presidential palace with her husband, Diem's brother. After the coup, MN lived in exile in France. She predicted a bleak future for Vietnam.
**David Dean Rusk (1909-1994) was born in Cherokee County, Georgia & educated at the University of California. DDR served as Secretary of State 1961-1969.
SOURCE
"Mrs. Nhu Calls on Rusk For Safe Conduct Home," The Evening Star, Washington, D.C., November 4, 1963, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
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