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...place merely a tragic coincidence? Paris newspapers did not think so, darkly hinted at sabotage. They pointed out that the first plane carried Henri Maux, French government official returning to Paris from strife-torn Indo-China with important documents which he had prepared for an interstate conference between Viet Nam, Cambodia and Laos. Scheduled for June 26, the conference had to be postponed as a result of Maux's death. Also on the first plane: Raymond Rivet of the French Ministry of Finance. Rivet carried with him a full report on drug peddling, smuggling, and the dollar black market...
...TIME'S May 29 cover picture of Viet Nam's Bao Dai: Is this a touched-up photograph or a painting? If it isn't a photograph, my hat is off to Boris Chaliapin; if it is, shame on TIME for not saying...
Most serious failure is the sluggish pace in recruiting a Viet Nam army. Bao Dai's government has thus far assembled only four battalions, about...
Behind him, at the Château de Thorenc, he left Empress Nam Phuong and their family of two boys and three girls...
Field of Decision. Though Ho Chi Minh's forces (70,000 regulars with equipment as good as the French, plus 70,000 well-trained guerrillas and an unknown number of poorly equipped village militia) have been pushed back from such centers as Hanoi in northern Viet Nam, French officers report that "the situation steadily grows no better...