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...from the Red River delta fighting in French Indo-China lies Cambodia, southernmost of the three states (Viet Nam, Cambodia and Laos) that make up the French Indo-Chinese Union. Cambodia, too, has come in for its share of strife, at the hands of some 1,800 guerrilla bandits led by an anti-French demagogue named Son Ngoc Thanh. Like Ho Chi Minh's rebels to the north, Son Ngoc Thanh's men are ostensibly non-Communist nationalists, but they are glad to accept Communist help...
...walked into butter-colored Gia-Long Palace in Saigon one morning last week and handed to Premier Tran Van Huu a letter bearing the imperial seal of Bao Dai. The letter bluntly deposed Huu and named the bearer, 57-year-old Nguyen Van Tarn, as new Premier of embattled Indo-China...
...been ambushed eleven times by Red guerrillas, and escaped with nothing more than a cut finger. In his spare time he hunts tigers by night, writes poetry by day. He is tough with opposition, but he favors a more representative Viet Nam cabinet, and grants of land to Indo-Chinese who fight against the Reds...
...Legion, the Kepis Blancs, have fought and died for France in almost continuous campaigning in Algeria, in the Crimea, in Mexico, Tonkin, Dahomey, the Sudan, Madagascar, Morocco, the Dardanelles, Syria, Serbia and France itself. In six years of fighting the Communists, more than 7,000 Legionnaires have died in Indo-China alone. "You Legionnaires," a French general once promised them, "you are soldiers who were meant to die, and I am sending you where...
Last week, sprawled astride the main Red invasion route on the Ninety-Nine Hills beyond Indo-China's Bacninh, the men of the Legion's 3rd Regiment-the most decorated unit in the French army -could afford to joke about death for a change, instead of courting it. There was a lull in battle. Lithuanian Sergeant Rekstis' mortar was silent. At the siege of Quong Lam a few weeks ago, Italians, Vietnamese, Portuguese and Yugoslavs had taken bets on whether a Viet Minh sniper would get Private Mommaire (Belgian, perhaps, or Swiss). Now Mommaire was idly admiring...