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...north of Paris, is a steel town run by Communists. Last month Corporal Gaston Depestel, 25, a Montataire boy who had been a Communist for a brief period after World War II, was brought home in a large black government truck. He had been killed fighting the Communist Viet Nam guerrillas in Indo-China. Montataire's Communist Mayor Marcel Coëne allowed Gaston's father to take the body home for the wake, and provided four municipal employees to carry the coffin. Their ordinary duty: garbage collection...
...funeral, Mayor Coëne, wearing his tricolor sash of office, stepped forward to read an oration. Said he: "I salute the mortal remains of Gaston Depestel . . . who has died without ideals in the unjust war of the Viet Nam, for the armament makers and the plantation owners . . ." At that point, an Indo-China war veteran put his hand over the mayor's manuscript and said quietly: "Rien de ça Monsieur le Maire" (Cut it out, Mister Mayor...
With the Communists held in check in north Indo-China, the main problem facing General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny is the building of a native Viet Nam army. His aim is a force of 120,000 to take over the main burden of defense...
Last week, in the four military regions of Viet Nam (pop. 22,600,000), training was in progress. Each region has undertaken to raise one full division-a total of 34 battalions. Equipment is mostly French and Japanese; only eight battalions have
...arms, transport and communications equipment. In the ancient walled city of Hue in central Viet Nam, a TIME correspondent last week watched barefooted Vietnamese peasants standing in the General Issue line with mouldy rifle straps, long underwear and heavy shoes dangling from their arms. Across the square, twelve-week recruits drilled with precision, their slouch hats at a jaunty angle...