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...Saigon last week, the French language newspaper Echo du Viet Nam, semi-official organ of the Viet Nam government, published the details of a massive military aid program undertaken by Red China on behalf of Ho Chi Minh's Communist forces in Indo-China...
...Asia, as elsewhere, Communism grows through force and deceit. In IndoChina-where Communist Ho Chi Minh's Viet Minh party is carrying on a stubborn guerrilla war against the French-TIME Correspondent Andre Laguerre found people who understood Communism better than many a "sophisticated" Westerner. Laguerre's report...
Prominently featured in the Chinese section were six paintings by a non-convert named Chang Chao-ho, who has been commissioned to illustrate the Church's first full translation of the Bible into Chinese. To him, as to Korean Sculptor Kim Chong Young, the Madonna was an almond-eyed lady in a flowing kimono. A Maori artist decked her in a long grass skirt. African carvers made her a Negro, often barebreasted, sometimes put heavy coils of beads round her neck. Indo-Chinese versions of the Madonna were apt to resemble the Buddhist goddess of Mercy, Kuan...
...Ho is a big man in the Communist world now. Back of him is a seven-man Politburo, which stays in the shadows. I don't know who belongs to it. Ho has been in China this year, in February, I think; he is not asking Mao for men, but for arms. He has plenty of men. All males between 18 and 45 have been conscripted, but he has arms for a few only...
...grown hungry since the French occupied the rice fields of the Red River Delta a year ago. Rice in the mountains fetches 50 piastres ($2.50) a pound, and the black-market price of the Viet Nam piastre has gone up from 12 to 30 Vietminh piastres. I know Ho has sent some of his troops into China for short stays, so they could eat better...