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...from boarded and shuttered houses to shrill greetings. Out came banners proclaiming: "Long Live Sino-Russian Friendship!" From housetops red, gold-starred flags of the "Democratic Republic of Viet Nam" broke into view. A Hanoi newspaper, hitherto ardently pro-West, front-paged a huge portrait of Viet Minh Chieftain Ho Chi Minh...
Missing from the scene of triumph was Ho Chi Minh, who has scarcely been seen by Western eyes since 1947. "He is working on an important task elsewhere," explained a newspaper, and from "elsewhere" a decree was issued over the 63-year-old Red leader's name proclaiming Hanoi the capital of Communist Indo-China. President Ho, the Communists indicated, will make his entry next week in time to receive India's Prime Minister Nehru when he stops off on his way to see Communist China's rulers in Peking...
...first taste of trouble came with an announcement of Communist fiscal policy. The only currency valid in the Northern zone was to be Communist Ho Chi Minh's piasters, a printed currency that had no value before Geneva. The Communists arbitrarily based it on the price of rice, 230 piasters for two pounds of grain. But since rice prices fluctuate wildly from area to area and from season to season, the currency would depend on the crop, thus make it impossible for any Northern businessmen to set up a solid business. Imports would be next to impossible...
...homilies down. If he is, there are a few other ways he can solve the nation's ills and still retain the dog-cared image. You can't teach an old dog new tricks might apply to any ex-communist, while the country's enemies, from Hiss to Ho Chi Minh, could be lumped under the heading of dogs in the manager. Although the Administration's critics usually bay at the moon, for those recurring embarrassments, like Senator McCarthy, there's the old wheeze about letting sleeping dogs lie. Any hint of co-existing with Russia could be neatly scotched...
...soon take off for Peking to see Mao Tse-tung. On his way, he will display his nonaggression samples to Burma's Prime Minister U Nu in Rangoon, also stop in Hanoi (the Communist Viet Minh will be installed there by that time) in the hope of seeing Ho Chi Minh...