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Every one of these Parisian features the Davises found in Saigon, true "Paris of the East." But all the way up the Saigon River everything was pure Indo-Chinese: junks, half-naked boatmen in big hats, smiling children who live the merry life of water rats...
Upon a quay profusely decked with flowers and after a salute of 19 guns, Mr. Davis was received by the French Governor of Cochin-China, M. Krautheimer. Reason: the exquisite old Governor General of all French Indo-China, His Excellency M. Pierre Pasquier, was in Paris, France, complaining about all the trouble Communists have been making in his bailiwicks (TIME, March 23). But native Reds made at the Davises not even faces...
...hands 285,000 square miles and more than 20,000,000 natives. Just about a year ago they first began a riot on a Communistic basis, the more literate natives having read and ill-digested some tons of pamphlets smuggled in from Russia. Russians are propagandizing hotly in Indo-China primarily because the Soviet State charges and believes that France is its most dangerous enemy in Europe...
Thus far the chief uprisings have been among Indo-China's Annamites, a fighting people gifted with both intelligence and guile. Near Vinh, the provincial capital of North Annam, some 5,000 Annamites gathered not long ago and began the march upon the capital. Bombing planes were sent out against them. Two hundred natives were slain. The slaughter was comparable in every way to the notorious British massacre of Indians at Amritsar in 1919-for it turned out that the 5,000 Annamites were, in this particular instance, unarmed, had only been making a march of protest...
...French Indo-China laughed at its Governor General's discomfiture, but M. Pasquier knew what to do. He flew to Paris, a bold feat which restored his prestige. For the first time in three years the High Colonial Council is meeting in Paris, pondering how to stamp out the Reds...