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...Nepal. Travelers back in India from Tibet last week said that well-armed Chinese troops along the 2,000-mile frontier are entrenched in market towns, have replaced Indian rupees with Chinese currency, are interfering with traders and religious pilgrims, who for centuries have crossed and recrossed the Indo-Tibetan border without hindrance...
...Frenchman named Charles Chanson and a Vietnamese named Thai Lap Thanh were among the men most hated by Indo-China's Communists. General Chanson, 49, Commander of the French-Indo-Chinese forces in South Viet Nam, was an able career officer who liked to plan his own operations and go up to the front to see them carried out. Working closely with Thai Lap Thanh, 54, Governor of South Viet Nam, General Chanson scored decisive victories last May and June against the Communist Viet Minh guerrillas. Last month, meeting somewhere in the broad green swamps of the Plaine...
...five years the French have had some of their best fighting forces (including paratroopers, airmen, Moroccan infantrymen) tied up in Indo-China, fighting Reds. But only 40,000 Indo-Chinese volunteers are fighting alongside the French. Last week, prodded by French Commander General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, Viet Nam's Chief of State Bao Dai moved at last to bring the entire country into the war against the Communists. Bao Dai ordered full mobilization of all men between 18 and 60. First draft call: 60,000, beginning Oct. 16. Ultimate goal: a national Viet Nam army...
...serving with the French will provide noncoms and combat officers. Under the mobilization decree, all Vietnamese doctors, pharmacists, dentists and veterinarians may be called up; skilled technicians, lawyers, journalists, photographers will be put on the reserve lists. The French hope that the mobilization decree will blast some of Indo-China's young intellectuals off their ideological fence. De Lattre's ringing challenge to them: "Be men. Pick your sides. If your sympathies are with the Viet Minh go into the mountains and join them. If they are not, then join the new Vietnamese army and defend yourselves...
...different question. Could it be that Dewey, first of the big Republicans to come out for Ike (TIME, Oct. 23), hopes to become Secretary of State in the Eisenhower cabinet? He wasn't saying. But Dewey's Asiatic tour is taking him to Japan, Korea, Formosa, Indo-China, Singapore, Indonesia, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Australia, and New Zealand. It was a journey designed to inform him further on a part of the world that is not too familiar to NATO's Eisenhower. And New York State's 97 convention delegates, in Tom Dewey's pocket...