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...party's best asset. To the opposition, he has become an unexpected Good Samaritan for keeping the polls free (they gave him an admiringly inscribed copy of Peace of Mind). To the Western world, too often handicapped in its outer reaches by propped-up Bao Dais and Syngman Rhees, he has brought a glimmer of hope for democracy in the Orient...
...Natarajian, editor of the Bombay Herald, said here yesterday that "there is genuine anxiety in my country as to whether the West is backing the wrong political horses." He added that Indians think some U.S. backed rulers like Synghman Rhee and Indo-China's Bao Dai are "the scum of Asia...
Despite De Lattre's political progress, U.S. observers in Indo-China estimate that, in free elections, half the Indo-Chinese would still vote for Ho rather than French-supported Bao...
...Indo-China, De Lattre has practiced the dynamic defense he preached for Europe. Not only has he transformed a whipped, dispirited French army into a resurgent, confident fighting force, he has also shaken up the leaders and the people of Viet Nam.* From their chief of state, Emperor Bao Dai, down to the peasant masses...
...Lattre boldly attacked this Vietnamese doubt. He won over the distrustful Bao Dai and other leaders with his intense assurances that the old colonialism was dead. He exhorted village elders: "Attentisme, the double game, treason, are at an end . . . You are at war, and in war to compromise is treason . . ." He told the nation's youth: "Stand up like men . . . If you are Communists, join the Viet Minh . . . But if you are patriots, fight for your country, because this war is your...