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Indo-China. The French are slowly making military headway in Indo-China against the Viet Minh* revolutionary party, headed by a clever 55-year-old goat-bearded Communist, Ho Chih-minh. Did military progress mean much? A few weeks ago, miles inside the French lines, TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod, riding in a French military convoy, came upon the scene of an ambush. The rebels had blown up the convoy ahead of him, killing 48 persons, some horribly. Sherrod cabled this impression...
...French agreed to hold an election to ascertain the wishes of the Cochin Chinese. Meanwhile, separatist agitation in Cochin China must stop. The Vietnamese tartly replied that if the separatist case was not properly presented, the election would be unfair. Ho & Vo. Viet Nam is headed by Ho Chih-minh (He Who Enlightens), president of the Indo-Chinese Communist Party, who, with his little goat beard, looks something like a Mongoloid Trotsky (see cut). Even for a "coco" (as French politicians call the Stalinists), Ho has had a colorful history. Onetime photographer, cabin boy and socialist, he took the cure...
...afternoon session, Christmas Day, brought a simple, stirring final ceremony. Two men, representing the Assembly and the Government, came on the stage under Sun Yat-sen's huge portrait. One was old Wu Chih-hui, dean of the delegates, in satin jacket, skirt and slippers. The other was Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, in white gloves and military khaki. An Army band played the national anthem. The crowded Assembly bowed three times before Sun's likeness; Wu mumbled Sun's will. Then from the chairman's aged hand the Gimo received the Constitution, bound in red and gold...
Moscow-trained Viet Nam Leader Ho Chih-minh did not mourn for Thinh, the statesman, or for Thinh, the rich rice grower. Ho said acidly: "The loss of an excellent physician ... is regrettable." But warrior monk Thierry d'Argenlieu, French High Commissioner in Indo-China (who had been granted leave by the Vatican from his duties as head of French Carmelite monks to take a naval command in the first years of the war), knelt at a flag-and flower-draped coffin, solemnly kissed the cold forehead of Dr. Thinh. Said he: "In an Annamite country, it requires infinite...
...field teams were a key ingredient in Marshall's experiment. They soon found their task rugged; local commanders were still skirmishing, blocking communications, endangering the whole program. On March 1. the Special Envoy, accompanied by Generals Chou En-lai and Chang Chih-chung, left Happiness Gardens for 3,500 miles of wicked winter flying over north China. In less than a week he visited ten cities and towns, whirled through inspections, receptions and 15-course banquets, heard himself extolled by banner-waving greeters as "Terror of the Evildoers. . . . First Lord of the Warlords. . . . Most Fairly [sic] Friend of China...