BELLES OF ST. MARY’S
October 11, 1963
THE BELLES
OF ST. MARY’S
Published every two weeks during
the seliool year by tlie student body
of St. Mary’s .Tunior Coliege.
Entered as 2nd Cia.ss matter Dec.
7 1944 at Post Office, Raleigh, N. C.,
under Act of March 3, 1879. Subscrip
tion $1.00 per year.
BELLES STAFF
Editor-in-Chief Betsy Ross
Assistant Editor Lily F. Ross
News Editor Hakiuet Williams
Feature Editor Alexa Dkaxlek
Alumnae Editor Maky' Ball
Exchanye Editor Patti Gkier
Photoyrapher Ann McEachern
Head Typist Sharon Floyd
Circulation. Myr Anne de la Vergne
Business Manaycr Anne Scott
NF^WS STAFF
Lyllian Grdy, Fiorenee Hamrick,
Kim Marsden, Suzi Nagels, Susan
Osborne, Janet Price, Lanier iScott,
Anne Underwood, Ginny Wiliets.
FEATURE STAFF
Virginia Coliester, Ann Day, Barbara
Eagieson, Meg Graham, Ibis Ponton,
Ellen Scurry, Rosemary Teague,
Martha Wright.
SPORTS STAFF
Ann Richards, Sallie Scarborough.
ART STAFF
Susan Ehringhaus, Susan Lawford,
Macon Remsburg.
TYPISTS
Terry Barnes, Martha Hardee, Mari
lyn Koonce, Mary Ann King, Leah
Osgood, Linda Pope, Diane Ricks.
PROOFREADERS
Judy Dudley, Panthea Twitty.
MAKE-UP
Nancy Griffin, Cile Wallace.
CIRCULATION
Mary Block, Carol Cantwell, Carolyn
Finch, Amoret Judd, Janie Judd.
ADVISOR
Mr. John U. Tate.
ST.ITEMENT OF OWNERSHIP,
MANAGEMENT AND CIRCULATION
(Act of October 23, 1962; Section 4369,
Title 39, United States Code)
1. Date of Filing—Sept. 30. t®®® .
2. Title of Publication—THE BELLES
3. Frequency of Issue—Every two weeKS
during the school year
4. Location of Known Office of Publication—
c/o St. Mary’s .Junior College,
900 Hillsboro St..eet
Raleigh, N. C. 27602
5. Location of the Headquarters or General
Office of the Publisher—Same as No. 4
6 Names and Addresses of Publisher, Editor,
and Managing Editor—Same as No. 4
Editor—Betsy Ross, 900 Hillsboro Street,
Raleigh, N. C. 27602
7. Owner—St. Mary’s .Junior College,
Raleigh, N. C.
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Other Security Holders Owning or Hold
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of Bonds, Mortgages or Other Securities
—None
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Col. 1
Col. 2
(net Press Run)
B. Paid Circulation
1. To term subscribers
by mail, carrier de
livery or by other
577
525
means
2. Sales through agents,
news dealers, or
None
None
otherwise
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other means
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525
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525
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issue during preceding 12 months
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filing date
issue
nearest to
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statements made by me above are correct and
com])lete.
It’s Just That First Day!
FOCUS ON MADAME NHU
By Ibis I’onton
Women are not new to Viet-
Namese history, yet none of them
has played as vital a part as
Madame Nhii. Today Madame
Nhu is influencing the history of
this Oriental country with her
energy, her charm, her sharp
tongue, her militant Catholicism
(she was converted to Catholicism
after her marriage in 1943), and
her husband’s family. She is mar
ried to the younger brother of the
president of Viet Nam. This
younger brother serves as Presi
dent Diem’s close friend and ad
visor, and his wife, Madame Nhu,
serves as the official First Lady
for the bachelor president. Mad
ame Nhu, instead of being hated
or respected or popular, like a
Western political figure, is feared
—fear intensified by the ignorance
and bloodshed which are constant
ly racing the Vietnamese people.
The secret of Madame Nhu’s pow
er is President Diem’s desperate
fear of a public display of family
friction. Therefore, he allows his
petite sister - in - law to order
around army generals and cabinet
ministers, and to order even him
around. In reality .she holds only
two public offices: Deputy in the
National Assembly and Chief of
South Viet Nam’s Women’s Move
ments. And as if this were not
enough, Madame Nhu brags that
Diem is unable to curb her power
even though the United States has
been for years urging him to stop
her.
A religious crisis is currently
facing South Viet Nam. Diem’s
regime is Catholic and refuses to
tolerate the Buddhists. In her po
sition Madame Nhu could do much
to help remedy the situation, yet
she makes no effort to do anything
but enforce her own opinions.
Last summer when a Buddhist
monk burned himself to deatli in
protest against intolerance, Mad
ame Nhu was unsympathetic. Her
only comment was “beat the Bud
dhist demonstrators three times
harder.” Tlie Vietnamese govern
ment was embarrassed and has
tened to say that Madame Nhu’s
opinions did not represent those
of the Government. The South
Vietnamese ambassador to the
United States was especially
embarrassed; he is Tran Van
Chuong, Madame Nhu’s father. He
disapproves of his daughter, and
she calls him a coward. But since
this friction is on a different side
of the family, perhaps it does not
upset President Diem. Madame
Nhu has split with her family and
has replaced them with her hus
band’s relatives.
The entire situation in South
Viet Nam is a terrible problem for
the United States. In order to pro
tect Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, and
the Malay Peninsula, the United
States must protect South Viet
Nam. For this protection one mil
lion dollars a day plus 14,000
soldiers are being poured into the
country to help figlit the Bed
Chinese guerrillas. The United
States is in a bad position, for it
is supporting an aristocratic, to
tally un-democratic government
controlled by President Diem and
Ids relatives. Tlie President’s fam
ily is not popular, yet it dominates
the polities and the economics of
South Viet Nam. One reason for
this domination is that members
of Diem’s family control every im
portant position in the South
Vietnamese government. Besides
Madame Nhu and her husband,
Ngo Dinh Nhu, who is Diem’s po
litical counselor. Diem’s other
three brothers hold the following
positions: Ngo Dinh Time is the
Bonian Catholic Archbishop, Ngo
Dinh Can runs the city of Hue
and surrounding central Viet
Nam, and Ngo Dinh Luyen serves
as South Viet Nam’s ambassador
to Great Britian and to several
other European countries.
Madame Nhu and her daughter
are currently traveling in Europe.
IMadame Nhu hopes to disperse
all misunderstandings regarding
South Viet Nam and President
Diem’s regime; perhaps if she
were to remove herself from the
])olitieal picture of South Viet
Nam, there would be fewer mis
understandings.
Noted Lecturer
Comes To St. Mary’s
T. H. White, a noted author
whose novel of the life of King
Arthur inspired the broadway
musical “Camelot”, lectured at St.
Mary’s on Monday, October 7. His
subject was the Roman Emperor
Hadrian. Mr. White was introduc
ed by Miss M. M. Morrison, who
mentioned interesting details of
Mr. White’s life. By way of intro
duction, Miss Morrison informed
the audience that Mr. White has
been highly praised by varioiis
literary critics. One such critic
said “All things, all knowledge,
are his province.”
Mr. White, ivlio is avidly inter
ested in all phases of learning,
lectured on the charactei;’, general
personality, and contributions of
the Emperor Hadrian to the civi
lized world. He pointed out that
although Hadrian had absolute
power, he managed to retain his
genial and pleasant good humor
and sense of justice. Mr. White
commented that Hadrian was ^
somewhat eccentric emperor, who
not only encouraged the civiliza
tion of the countries ruled hf
Rome, hut also practiced the the
ory of civilization himself. Ha
drian was a sculptor, an artist, a
musician, an athlete, and aboV
all an architect.
IMr. White enriched his lecture
with slides taken in various Euro
pean museums. Mr. White aB®
showed slides of his temple f®
Hadrian, ivhich is located near h^
home in the Channel Islands oh
the coast of Normandy.
After his lecture, Mr.
and interested members of fh
audience adjourned to Facuu.
- ct
House, where they discussed sU'
diverse subjects as William
ing’s novel Lord of the Flies,
Goia-
Walj
oiiD'
Disnev’s approaching release
“The Sword in the Stone”, whic®
is based on Mr. White’s novel, au
current trends in the motion P*
ture industry.
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