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...some areas, the Reds show the people booklets containing pictures of Ho Chi Minh and Bao Dai, ordering them to sign under the picture of their choice. There are few signatures for Bao Dai.* More effective still are the propaganda speeches and the carefully phrased whispers of the women who press the Communist advantage relentlessly. "We are winning," they whisper. "We are winning. Do you want to be with us, or with the French and the foreigners? The white men have surrendered half of your country; they will surrender the other half too. Do not trust them. Come with...
...last week announced from France that he would return "soon" to Viet Nam. This presumably indicated that the French expect Prime Minister Diem to fall in a few months, and are preparing to prop up Bao Dai again...
...Dai himself was in the French spa of Vittel last week, taking the waters. He had no comment to make ("Sorry"). He would probably never return to Viet...
Diem considered resignation, decided to fight, and likewise persuaded his Foreign Minister to stay on. Diem wanted time and a chance to wipe out the memory of the graft, inefficiency and indifference of the Bao Dai regime,* wanted time to spark an anti-Communist revolution based upon full independence and land reform...
...Southport, England, Australia's Peter Thomson, 24, became the youngest winner of the British Open golf tournament since Bobby Jones won at the same age in 1926. Thomson's 283 was just one stroke under Runners-up Bobby Locke, Syd Scott and Dai Rees, all bunched at 284. Closest American was Jim Turnesa, who tied for fifth with...