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The scuffling by resentful overseas Chinese was the first outbreak of violence in Saigon in months, and it was no real threat to the regime of Ngo Dinh Diem. Less than three years ago the august Times of London, among other respectable voices, was proclaiming that "Diem has failed as Prime Minister." (The U.S. State Department was resolutely backing him.) Since then, Diem has reorganized his army, defeated and routed the French-supplied guerrilla sects that waged open war on his government and seen a freely elected National Assembly installed in Saigon. Diem's success has also attracted such neutralist-minded Asian leaders as Burma's U Nu. This week Diem will arrive in Washington to call on President Eisenhower in his first U.S. visit since the two years (1951-53) he spent here in self-imposed exile from the French at the Maryknoll Junior Seminary in Lakewood, N.J.
*There are over 14 million "overseas Chinese" outside Red China and Formosa. They make up 75% of the population of Singapore, 99% of Hong Kong, 20% of Thailand.