Vũ Văn Thái Explained

Vũ Văn Thái
Birth Date:26 January 1919
Death Place:Saint-Tropez, France
Birth Place:Hanoi, French Indochina
Office:South Vietnamese Ambassador to the United States
Predecessor:Trần Thiện Khiêm
Successor:Bùi Diễm
Term Start:16 December 1965
Term End:December 1966
Signature:Signature of Vũ Văn Thái.png
President:Nguyễn Văn Thiệu
Spouse:Simone Garoute
Children:3

Vũ Văn Thái[1] [2] (26 January 1919 – 19 April 1994) was a Vietnamese engineer and economist, and former Ambassador of the Republic of Vietnam to the United States.[3]

Life

Early life

Vũ Văn Thái was born on 26 January 1919 in Hanoi, French Indochina.[4] [5] [6]

After receiving secondary education in Vietnam, Vũ Văn Thái went to France to study.[5] From 1939 to 1944, he studied at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris and received a diploma in science. From 1944 to 1946, he entered the National Scientific Research Center on a scholarship.[7] From 1946 to 1949, Vũ Văn Thái served as laboratory director at the National Scientific Research Center. He graduated from Sorbonne University in 1954 with a Master of Science diploma.[8]

Although Vũ Văn Thái's father, a famous Vietnamese textile manufacturer, was murdered by the Việt Minh in 1947,[9] As a Viet Minh sympathizer, Vũ Văn Thái supported the Viet Minh's resistance to the French colonialists in the late 1940s and early 1950s.[10] During this period, he served as Hồ Chí Minh's adviser in the negotiations for Vietnam's independence.[11] When efforts to negotiate failed, fighting broke out between the Việt Minh and the French, and Vũ Văn Thái left the Việt Minh after confirming their communist nature.

Political career

After the Geneva Conference in 1954, Vũ Văn Thái joined the government of the State of Vietnam.[5] [10] He successively served as the director of the Tonggan Dam Reconstruction Planning Bureau,[7] and director of the Budget and Foreign Aid Bureau.[12] In 1961, a conflict broke out between Vũ Văn Thái and Ngô Đình Diệm, and he resigned from the government. He then moved to the United Nations Secretariat, where he served first as a consultant in the Finance and Financial Sector and then as a consultant to the Government of Togo.

After Diệm was overthrown by a coup, Vũ Văn Thái returned to Vietnam and was appointed ambassador to the United States, but he declined the appointment after Nguyễn Khánh launched a military coup and returned to the United Nations Secretariat and was appointed as the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs [12]

In 1965, Vũ Văn Thái served as the third Ambassador of the Republic of Vietnam to the United States, and submitted his credentials to U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson on 16 December 1965.[13] In December 1966, Vũ Văn Thái was replaced as ambassador to the United States.[14]

On 19 April 1994, Vũ Văn Thái passed away in Saint-Tropez, France.[4]

Family

His wife, Simone Garoute, is French, and they have three daughters.[3] [5] [15]

References

  1. Web site: 中越關係 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210306075718/https://ktli.sinica.edu.tw/profile%20image/forgien/vietnam.html . 2021-03-06 . 2022-07-16 . ktli.sinica.edu.tw . zh-TW.
  2. Book: 葉惠芬 . 陳誠先生從政史料選輯：行政院美援運用委員會會議紀錄〈二〉 . 2009-04-01 . 國史館 . 9789860182989 . 796–797 . 越南經濟訪問團中，有顧問一人，係由越南政府預算及外援局局長武文泰擔任，武局長並擔任政府其他重要公職，對中越經濟合作素表興趣 . 2022-07-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220717031639/https://books.google.com.hk/books?id=QvFXEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT113&lpg=PT113&dq=%E2%80%9C%E6%AD%A6%E6%96%87%E6%B3%B0%E2%80%9D&source=bl&ots=DQBalWn4G4&sig=ACfU3U3LFGZa6l5LGBpPiR8ZPBGXGkAEtg&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y&hl=zh-CN&sourceid=cndr#v=onepage&q=%E2%80%9C%E6%AD%A6%E6%96%87%E6%B3%B0%E2%80%9D&f=false . 2022-07-17.
  3. News: 1972-01-04 . Vietnamese Ex-Envoy Tells of Meeting Ellsberg . en-US . The New York Times . 2022-07-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190716075513/https://www.nytimes.com/1972/01/04/archives/vietnamese-exenvoy-tells-of-meeting-ellsberg.html . 2019-07-16 . 0362-4331.
  4. Web site: Thai Vu Van . https://web.archive.org/web/20230720025017/https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:CLTL-F1N2 . 2023-07-20 . 2023-07-20 . familysearch.
  5. Web site: Biography of Vu Van Thai, undated . https://web.archive.org/web/20220717031638/https://vva.vietnam.ttu.edu/images.php?img=%2Fimages%2Fmsu%2F6-20-BF-116-UA17-95_000232.pdf . 2022-07-17 . 2022-07-16 . vva.vietnam.ttu.edu . en.
  6. Book: Le Minh . Vietnam . no . Pan-Asia Newspaper Alliance . 1958 . Wu . Felix L. . . en . 2022-09-04.
  7. Book: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on State Department Organization and Public Affairs . Situation in Vietnam: Hearings Before the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Subcommittee on State Department Organization and Public Affairs of the Committee on Foreign Relations United States Senate, Eighty-Sixth Congress, First Session on the Situation in Vietnam . 1959-07-31 . U.S. Government Printing Office . 112 . en-US . 2022-07-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220717031639/https://books.google.com.hk/books?id=k-JEAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA112&lpg=PA112&dq=%22les+presses+scientifiques+internationales%22&source=bl&ots=74pprY9spQ&sig=ACfU3U3RBO8mhQpR4j4m8wv3CgeOKWcaeQ&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y&hl=zh-CN&sourceid=cndr#v=onepage&q=%22les%20presses%20scientifiques%20internationales%22&f=false . 2022-07-17.
  8. News: 1965 . Viet Ambassador to Speak at MSU . en . . 2022-07-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220717031641/https://vva.vietnam.ttu.edu/images.php?img=%2Fimages%2Fmsu%2F6-20-C2-116-UA17-95_000236.pdf . 2022-07-17.
  9. News: Stanley Karnow . 1965 . Soviet Interests in Curbing China Noted by Saigon's Envoy to U.S. . en-US . . 2022-07-16 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220717031641/https://vva.vietnam.ttu.edu/images.php?img=%2Fimages%2Fmsu%2F6-20-C2-116-UA17-95_000236.pdf . 2022-07-17.
  10. Web site: 1966-01-28 . Briefing Note For President Lyndon B. Johnson: Vietnamese Ambassador Vu Van Thai . https://web.archive.org/web/20220717031641/https://vva.vietnam.ttu.edu/images.php?img=%2Fimages%2F024%2F0240322008.pdf . 2022-07-17 . 2022-07-17 . vva.vietnam.ttu.edu.
  11. Web site: Thomas . Geoffrey L. . 1966-03-24 . Vu Van Thai . https://web.archive.org/web/20170911032334/http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1966/3/24/vu-van-thai-pthe-french-are/ . 2017-09-11 . 2022-07-17 . www.thecrimson.com.
  12. News: 1965 . Viet Ambassador to Speak at MSU . en . . 2022-07-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220717031641/https://vva.vietnam.ttu.edu/images.php?img=%2Fimages%2Fmsu%2F6-20-C2-116-UA17-95_000236.pdf . 2022-07-17.
  13. Book: United States. Department of State. Office of Media Services, United States. Department of State. Office of Public Communication . The Department of State Bulletin . Office of Public Communication, Bureau of Public Affairs . 1966 . 第 54 卷 . en-US . 2022-07-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220702003716/https://books.google.com.hk/books?id=KHo8Uklz4oAC&hl=zh-TW&pg=PA52#v=onepage&q&f=false . 2022-07-02.
  14. News: Times . Kathleen Teltsch Special to The New York . 1971-12-31 . Vietnamese Called Ellsberg Co-Conspirator Is an Economist . en-US . The New York Times . 2022-07-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180123021822/http://www.nytimes.com/1971/12/31/archives/vietnamese-called-ellsberg-coconspirator-is-an-economist.html . 2018-01-23 . 0362-4331.
  15. News: Stanley Karnow . 1965 . Soviet Interests in Curbing China Noted by Saigon's Envoy to U.S. . en-US . . 2022-07-16 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220717031641/https://vva.vietnam.ttu.edu/images.php?img=%2Fimages%2Fmsu%2F6-20-C2-116-UA17-95_000236.pdf . 2022-07-17.

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