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...French) bank. ¶ Accepted the allegiance of 8,000 troops of the Cao Dai and Hoa Hao religious sects, whose hostile private armies were thereby reduced by about one-third. ¶ Started proceedings against wealthy Phan Van Giao, onetime Vice Premier and business manager for Chief of State Bao Dai, accusing him of misappropriating 5,650,000 piasters...
...Vietnamese government about $10,000 in "taxes," and gets in return the monopoly control of Saigon's brothels, gambling casinos and opium dens (which are called "clinics of disintoxication"). The Binh Xuyen's enterprises are one of the main sources of revenue for Chief of State Bao Dai, who lives in luxury on the French Riviera. The Binh Xuyen is greatly feared in Saigon: its policemen recently beat a Vietnamese army contingent in pitched street fighting. The Binh Xuyen is also respected for its efficiency. One day last fall the mob closed down the city's small...
...Your article clearly illustrated the ruthlessness of the French and all their dirty, underhanded dealings in an effort to keep the people of Indo-China under their thumb. They supported Bao Dai, a puppet, who lived in frivolous luxury while the people suffered in poverty and disease. Ho Chi Minh lives simply and works hard, and took advantage of all this...
...salt-and-pepper suit and bright green tie, General Nguyen Van Hinh, head of the Vietnamese army, flew to Paris to interview his chief of state, Bao Dai. The 39-year-old general was loudly confident that he could undermine his arch rival, the Nationalist Premier Ngo Dinh Diem, whose efforts he had been successfully frustrating back home...
...Bao Dai, however, was now angling for U.S. support, and the U.S.'s man is Diem. The State Department considers Hinh a competent soldier but no man to run the country. Besides, Hinh's French training and his French wife hamper his effectiveness with Vietnamese National ists. Last week Bao Dai fired the general. Or, as Bao Dai's spokesmen put it: "General Hinh having made some regrettable statements, His Majesty . . . came under the imperious obligation of withdrawing his assignment...