Dialogue at the Door

Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu, presently residing in Paris, had been invited to the U.S. to address a "Truth Rally"sponsored by the Conservative Party club of Flushing, N.Y. In due course, she applied for a visa, and last week, in due course, the U.S. State Department turned her down on grounds that her presence would be "prejudicial to the public interest."

The lady was furious, issued broadsides from behind the closed doors of her fashionable Left Bank apartment, fired off letters of protest to President Johnson. But she was not so furious as to lose her head completely. An American correspondent, trying to get Madame Nhu's firsthand version of the whole affair, knocked on the apartment door, was met by her daughter Le Thuy, and the following conversation took place: Le Thuy: Surely you know that Madame will not see journalists without payment in advance? Reporter: How much, if we just talk about the visa? Le Thuy: For how much time? Reporter: Five minutes. Le Thuy (after a brief consultation with her mother behind the door): Madame will not depart from her fee of $1,000. There was no interview.

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