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Printing presses in South Viet Nam last week were turning out a new kind of balloting card. Separated by a perforated line were two photographs: one of playboy Chief of State Bao Dai, the other of austere Premier Ngo Dinh Diem. Next week 3,000,000 Vietnamese will tear the cards down the middle and each will drop into a ballot box the picture of the man he wants to lead South Viet Nam. In this way the people will settle a dispute that has seriously hurt the democratic half of the country so sadly truncated at Geneva...
...Saigon there was little doubt about the outcome of the referendum. Ex-Emperor Bao Dai lives near Cannes on the French Riviera with his family and various European mistresses. From there, often with French concurrence, he has done everything he could do to subvert and destroy the struggling government of Premier Diem. In April, when the Binh Xuyen bandit army tried to grab Saigon, Bao Dai tried to fire Diem. Instead, Diem fought the Binh Xuyen back to the marshes of the Mekong River. Last summer Bao Dai directed an anti-Diem offensive by troops of the Hoa Hao sect...
...Diem was greeted enthusiastically by white-shirted young Vietnamese. Said he: "I promise you that by the end of the year we will have a democratic regime and a national assembly." By way of ensuring this desirable result, the ballot card photographs had been thoughtfully chosen: that of Bao Dai in mandarin robes against a green background. Premier Diem in civilian clothes against a red background. "You might call it coincidental. I suppose," said a government official, "but in Viet Nam red is considered a lucky color and green an unlucky...
...years the copper-hued tsurigane (hanging bell) of Tokyo's Nishi-arai Dai-shi Temple rang out over the city, its tone as rich as a mighty organ. When the temple survived the Tokyo earthquake of 1923, a superstition arose that the tsurigane was imperishable. Then, on an autumn day in 1943, a drab-colored Japanese army truck carted the half-ton tsurigane away to be melted down, with thousands of other Buddhist temple bells, into war scrap. The bell disappeared from sight, but its memory lingered...
...only with sacrificial entrails, but in other useful ways, more and more Vietnamese last week gave signs of Diem's growing control in his divided country. At Hue, the ancient royal capital of Annam. the council of the royal family, asserting an ancient prerogative, read ex-Emperor Bao Dai out of the family, forbade him the use of the imperial name, and pledged support to Diem's republican government...