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...usually pro-American, neither is it pro-Communist. In fact, many of India's policies have worked in the West's favor. At the very start of the Korean War, for example, India strongly supported collective resistance to aggression. And India's plan for a Korean truce, which was eventually adopted, first elicited from the Soviet Union the charge of being a "camouflage for horrible American policy...
Across Indo-China's 17th parallel - the truce line set at Geneva-moved the long, weary procession of refugees from the Communist North. In the South they were received on farms or in improvised tent cities which the U.S. helped supply; most of them will eventually be assigned new land. Among these anti-Communist refugees were 10,000 soldiers of a special type. They looked no different from the other Vietnamese peasants, but they were the remnants of one of the last real church armies in the world: the fighting Catholics of Tonkin, led by round, shrewd Bishop Thaddeus...
...Washington, Secretary Dulles turned his harassed attention, momentarily, to the mess in Korea. In that forlorn country, the Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission-composed, under the truce terms, of Swiss, Swedish, Polish and Czech members-is causing concern to the conscientious neutrals, more concern to the U.S. Aside from any real spying that they may manage incidentally, the Communist Poles and Czechs of the N.N.S.C. are gathering much useful information for their side merely by legal, above-board snooping around the docks and airfields of the designated towns in South Korea. But when it comes to inspecting Communist installations north...
...receive visitors. "The colonel does not wish to be rude," said one bearded adjutant, "but he feels pain this morning for himself and for France. He would rather be alone." In victory, the Communists pressed sharp attacks against 50 French and Vietnamese outposts right up to the final truce deadline. In the campaign's last 24 hours they killed 21, wounded 64. Behind their lines, the Communists were already seizing hold: Vietnamese fleeing their rule reported that the Reds had executed several unfriendly village elders, had plundered Roman Catholic settlements. Inside the cathedral at fallen Namdinh, the Communists displayed...
Sound Trucks & Spielers. For three weeks, Frenchmen had been following the Tour. Truce in Indo-China, terrorism in Morocco, even Fashion Designer Dior's offensive against the bosom all receded while the nation concentrated on the biggest bike race in the world. Nearly 20 million people turned out to see the bikes go by. It was more than a sporting event, it was a triumph of showmanship-as French as a march on the Bastille or a meal with snails...