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Participants in a furious jungle war were finding peace a reluctant prize. Last year the "Republic" of Viet Nam (almost half the size of France), formerly part of French Indo-China, waged a fierce minor struggle for independence from France. At Fontainebleau last week, the French-Viet Nam peace conference broke wide open, seriously endangering France's already tottering colonial policy. Chiefly responsible was Viet Nam's self-styled "President" Ho Chin Minh...
Before he would join France's projected Indo-Chinese Federation, Ho demanded: 1) Viet Nam's right to manage its own foreign affairs without interference by the Federation; 2) annexation of Cochin-China, an adjoining province (almost one-third the size of Viet Nam), which wants to be a separate member of the Federation. The French, who had agreed to all other Viet Nam demands, said no. Ho walked out of the conference, and while his guerrillas continued to kill French soldiers almost daily, holed up in his flower-littered suite at Paris' swank Royal Monceau Hotel...
...veteran flush up against the first moral crisis of his renewed career as a civilian. In the forefront of the drive to retain rent ceilings and OPA, the veteran in college or on-the-job training now shows signs of wanting to ride the gravy train along with the NAM, the farmers and certain merchants of Harvard Square. If the AVC eventually decides to campaign formally for a hike in the monthly check, such a move will give its proud boast, "Citizens first, veterans second," that unmistakable hollow ring...
...price violations in the doomed Agency's face or else hold goods off the market for the remaining nine months of OPA life. The big fight between small groups and the public is on. Not until an uncrippled OPA is given another year's lease on life will the NAM and farmers' silly symphony be silenced and another 1929 avoided...
...southern Indo-China, dominated by the great harbor and naval base of Saigon, French troops mopped up Viet Nam guerrillas. Like the Chinese troops, the British were technically present to disarm the Japanese, were helping the French. In a skirmish at Bienhoa, a rail town some 20 miles northeast of Saigon, two British Indian soldiers were killed...