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...recognizing the separate entity of South Viet Nam; no movement was to be permitted across the DMZ by military units, but civilian movement through it would be negotiated), there remained primarily the theological issue of how to sign the documents so that Saigon did not have to acknowledge the Communist-front Provisional Revolutionary Government. We devised a formula according to which neither Saigon nor the P.R.G. was mentioned in the document; the agreement to end the war in Viet Nam has the distinction of being the only document with which I am familiar in diplomatic history that does mention...
Over the next decade, Ho the Asian nationalist became Ho the Westernized Asian Communist. He absorbed the teachings of Marx and Lenin during two years of study at Moscow's Toilers of the East University, wrote a host of articles on colonial problems for Communist-front magazines. In 1925, he was assigned by the Comintern to go to Canton as an adviser to Soviet Agent Mikhail Borodin, then an adviser to the Chinese Nationalists...
...surprisingly in this climate, the far leftists are making more converts. Masaka, a Communist-front farmers' league, has tripled its membership to 21,000 in the past eight months. Active again in Central Luzon are the dreaded Huks (TIME, March 24), the backwoods Marxists who nearly toppled the Manila government in the early 1950s before they were brought under control. Warned a Senate report last month: "Today it is Central Luzon. Tomorrow it may be the whole country...
...King's first reaction was that toughs from the Communist-front Lambrakis youth movement had gone on a rampage, were perhaps even attempting a coup. Instinctively, he ordered the guards doubled at Tatoi, telephoned his mother, Queen Frederika, in the nearby Athenian suburb of Psychiko, to gather all the royal kin she could locate into her house. He then telephoned officers in his palace in Athens to send out a force to rescue Arnaoutis and protect the Queen Mother. He ordered the Navy to put to sea as many ships as possible...
Papadopoulos declared that the new regime would take at least a year to "purify" Greece before even thinking about elections. At week's end, the junta abolished Greece's Communist-front political party, the United Democratic Left, and declared that it would revise the Constitution to set up a stronger executive branch with more powers independent of Parliament...