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...London meeting of Foreign Ministers this May, Secretary of State Dean Acheson will stop in Paris to discuss dollar aid for Viet Nam with French ministers Bidault and Schuman. In his diplomatic portfolio Acheson will carry the unpleasant facts of French colonialism and of the civil war it has sired in Viet Nam...
...weeks ago gave its official nod of recognition to the state of Viet Nam, which the French had sponsored in Indo-China under former Emperor and reformed playboy Bao Dai. Last week ships of the U.S. Seventh Fleet, commanded by Vice Admiral Russell S. Berkey, steamed through the South China Sea in a show of support for Bao Dai. Two destroyers, the U.S.S. Stickell and the U.S.S. Anderson, tied up at the capital of Saigon while Admiral Berkey paid a courtesy call on Bao Dai (see cut). The U.S. aircraft carrier Boxer sent her planes over Saigon...
...simply written, effectively illustrated biography of eight Americans: Presidents Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln, Poet Walt Whitman, Social Worker Jane Addams, Scientist George Washington Carver, Industrialist Andrew Carnegie, Inventor Thomas Alva Edison. The first shipment (65,000 copies), on the presses this week in Manhattan, will go to Viet-Nam. Later, 65,000 apiece will be sent to Indonesia, Korea and Thailand...
This announcement came as a result of the Band's concert before the Associated Industries of Massachusetts banquet in October. Influential members of the Association who were present were greatly impressed, and have since convinced NAM convention directors to spend the $3,000 which would be necessary to bring the Band to New York...
...Most important part of the new Indo-China (with 21 out of 25 million of its people) is the Union of Viet Nam, composed of the old colonial provinces of Cochin-China, Annam and Tonkin, and run by an autonomous federal government. To continue as French protectorates with semi-autonomous status are the remaining two provinces: Laos, the land with the three-headed elephant in its flag (TIME, Aug. 1) and Cambodia, ruled by young (26) King Norodom Sihanouk...