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...Saigon last week, the French language newspaper Echo du Viet Nam, semi-official organ of the Viet Nam government, published the details of a massive military aid program undertaken by Red China on behalf of Ho Chi Minh's Communist forces in Indo-China...
...Viet Nam government is sending me with a mission to India. My job will be to tell Nehru that the Vietminh is not nationalist, although there are many nationalists held by force in it, but Communist, and would enslave our people. Many people in the world are not yet experienced in the evil of Communism. They don't understand that Communism has two faces, an attractive one and a sad one, but the sad one is the true face...
...Viet Nam side, Bao Dai's timid government has put some muscle into its administration. This week two strong men with contrasting backgrounds-one has worked with the Communists, the other always against them-were filling new jobs. But both brought the same message: the Communists, they said, were very tough people, and to beat them one had to be tougher still...
...decided to escape when the U.S. recognized Bao Dai. You don't realize how important that was for us. I have always been a nationalist, never a Communist. Until the Americans recognized the Emperor, I was not convinced that Viet Nam was really going to be independent. Many others would like to escape. But even important functionaries may not travel without a special permit. Only my ministerial rank allowed me to make a wide tour of inspection in northern Tonkin. I managed to get to the village where I was born, hid out there, and surrendered when a French...
...Vietminh has grown hungry since the French occupied the rice fields of the Red River Delta a year ago. Rice in the mountains fetches 50 piastres ($2.50) a pound, and the black-market price of the Viet Nam piastre has gone up from 12 to 30 Vietminh piastres. I know Ho has sent some of his troops into China for short stays, so they could eat better...