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Indo-China. The French are slowly making military headway in Indo-China against the Viet Minh* revolutionary party, headed by a clever 55-year-old goat-bearded Communist, Ho Chih-minh. Did military progress mean much? A few weeks ago, miles inside the French lines, TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod, riding in a French military convoy, came upon the scene of an ambush. The rebels had blown up the convoy ahead of him, killing 48 persons, some horribly. Sherrod cabled this impression...
...same everywhere that there has been conflict between French and Viet Minh. The town of Haï-duong, near Hanoi, was for a time Ho Chih-minh's headquarters and was recently taken by the French. It is the most utterly destroyed place since Lidice. Perhaps it is worse. Every building was burned or wrecked before the Viet Minh left. A favorite method is taking a pickax and weakening around the window frames of brick walls until they collapse...
...Francisco's Chinatown exchange, where operators answer with a cheery "Gay Daw Ho" (number please), speak many dialects and know most customers' numbers by heart, a walkout of all the regular operators caused a wonderful confusion...
...gave up just before the end of Brünnhilde's ho-yo-to-ho aria when her accompanist, Edwin McArthur, fumbled. He explained that he hadn't played it for six years...
...begins this new novel by Britain's H. E. Bates, who served with the R.A.F. in World War II, has written scores of short stories and several other novels (Spella Ho, Fair Stood the Wind for France). His latest is short and exciting enough to be read between supper and bedtime; its nonstop narrative includes the low-level gunning of the Breadwinner by an enemy plane, the damaged ship's run home under sail through a rising storm, the deaths of the rescued pilots. Along with all this, Author Bates raises the moral question that was common...