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| commander1 = | commander2 = | strength1 = | strength2 = | casualties1 = | casualties2 = | yearcost1 = }} In 1957 South Vietnam's President Ngô Đình Diệm visited the United States and was acclaimed a "miracle man' who had saved one-half of Vietnam from communism. However, in the latter part of the year, violent incidents committed by anti-Diệm insurgents increased and doubts about the viability of Diệm's government were expressed in the media and by U.S. government officials. The term "Viet Cong" for the communist cadres in South Vietnam came into common use as the use of the older term "Viet Minh" declined. ==January== The military budget for the government of South Vietnam in 1957 was projected to total $207 million dollars of which $187 million would come from the United States. Seventy percent of the U.S. assistance was spent paying the salaries of South Vietnamese armed forces.〔Spector, Ronald H. ''United States Army in Vietnam: Advice and Support: the early years, 1941-1960'' Washington: Government Printing Office, 1983, pp. 306-307〕 An author in the prestigious American Journal Foreign Affairs said that "South Vietnam today is a quasi-police state characterized by arbitrary arrests and imprisonments, strict censorship of the press and the absence of an effective political opposition.〔''Pentagon Papers'', Gravel Edition, Vol 1, Chapter 5, "Origins of the Insurgency in South Vietnam, 1954-1960", Boston: Beacon Press, 1971〕 ; 3 January The International Control Commission, formed to administer the Geneva Accords of 1954, said that neither North or South Vietnam had been in compliance with the agreement.〔Daugherty, Leo (2002), ''The Vietnam War Day by Day'' New York: Chartwell Books, Inc., p. 17〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1957 in the Vietnam War」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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