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...smiling Lilliputians of Southeast Asia find the courage and unity to resist the Big-Endian blandishments of their Blefuscudian cousins in Red China and Viet Nam, to say nothing of the far greater danger menacing them from the Muscovite Brobdingnag giant to the north; and may the good Quinbus Flestrin of the West, the democratic big brother Gulliver, realize before it is too late that their small-scale problems are to an alarming degree his problems...
...join the family circle. As the show began, the visitor leaped from his chair, whipped out a pistol and screamed at Nguyen: "You are a traitor to your country. You have been supplying the French with rice. You have been condemned by a tribunal of the people of Viet Minh and I am here to execute the sentence." Then he began shooting. One of the shots caught the rice merchant in the neck, killing him. Two more shots scratched Mrs. Nguyen. Ly flung herself at the student. Vo, tangling with Ly, fired again, hitting his own arm. With a mighty...
Neutral observers report that only a minority of Viet Minh, 10 to 20 percent, is Communist, though they agree that this minority holds key positions and controls the movement. But Viet Minh's strength is not only its Communist leadership. The nationalist yearnings of a suppressed people help keep the Viet Minh in business...
...economic assistance, on which the Acheson-Bidault-Schuman talks will focus, can combat Viet Namese Communism only if dollars will follow new freedoms granted the Bao-Dai regime by the French government. Though French troops are needed to hold off the immediate threat of Communist rule, and end of French curbs on the Bao-Dai regime can win nationalist support from Viet Minh to the present government...
...Paris, Acheson should set new freedoms--in foreign policy, native economy, and government appointments--as conditions for U. S. aid to Viet Nam. Though a more independent Bao-Dai is no guarantee of a Viet Nam safe from Communist conquest, such independence is the best chance that France and the U. S. have to promote democracy in Indo-China. Without this autonomy, Viet Nam, Even with U. S. assistance, will remain easy prey for Indo-China's Communists...