Sept. 11, 1963 - South Vietnam’s influential Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu, arriving in Belgrade from Beirut, said tonight the Saigon Government would satisfy President Kennedy’s suggestion for a change in its personnel “if we can.” But the sister-in-law of President Ngo Dinh Diem said: “We consider that President Kennedy is a politician, and when he hears a loud opinion speaking, he tries to appease it somehow. Our view is that, if that opinion is misinformed, the solution is not to bow to it, but to inform.” Questioned about reports that she described the self-immolation by fire of Buddhist monks as “barbecues,” she said: “My duty as a citizen is to ridicule in order to stop a bad example spreading. This burning is not only against Vietnam law but against Buddhist law.”
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