Most important. he was an avowed antiCommunist. That was It. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles picked him. Senator MIKE MANSPILD endorsed him. Francis Cardinal Spellman praised him. Vice President Richard M. Nixon liked him. and President Dwight D. Eisenhower OKd him. "Although 80 percent of South Vietnam was. and is. Buddhist. Diems Catholicism was good politics in the United States. The Catholic Bishops Relief Fund and the Catholic Relief Service assumed major roles in the resettlement of refugees streaming out of predominantly Catholic provinces of North Vietnam. Cardinal Spellman kept showering praise on Diem and his brother. Archbishop Ngo Dinh Thue.
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