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...short, chunky man with a crew haircut and the face of an Oriental John Garfield walked into butter-colored Gia-Long Palace in Saigon one morning last week and handed to Premier Tran Van Huu a letter bearing the imperial seal of Bao Dai. The letter bluntly deposed Huu and named the bearer, 57-year-old Nguyen Van Tarn, as new Premier of embattled Indo-China...
...been slow under Premier Huu's regime to join in the life-or-death fight against Red Rebel Ho Chi Minh's guerrillas. The Premier seemed more interested in nailing down Viet Nam's independence than in promoting a fighting partnership with the French. Bao Dai (and the French) thought the time had come for a stronger man, and the Emperor had constitutional power to make the change. The new man is no stooge of the French, but believes that first things come first. Within hours of his accession, the new Premier announced his policy: "Je fais...
...Indo-China, Miss Mintz said we are not completely up against a wall. We have to back neither the Communist Ho Chih-Mihn nor the imperialistic French and Bao-Dai. We can get tough with France, insist it set up a real government with popular support, not a puppet one universally disliked, staff the army with indo-Chinese, not Frenchmen, and let the country develop along national lines...
...Hinh's group was sent to Indo-China. Nguyen Van Hinh and his pilots took old Junkers 52 bombers on raids across the Tonkin Mountains. Soon Nguyen Van Hinh was a bigwig in the French Far East Air Command, a leading member of Chief of State Bao Dai's military cabinet, and something of a national hero. Last week 36-year-old Nguyen Van Hinh, now a brigadier general, was preparing to take command of Viet Nam's first native army...
Soon the military will abandon the No. 1 symbol of occupation, the big Dai Ichi insurance building across from the Imperial Palace, and move to the suburb of Ichigaya, renamed Pershing Heights. SCAP General Matthew Ridgway will have to move out of the U.S. Embassy to make room for new Ambassador Robert Murphy-but he will go to even more elaborate quarters, set aside by the Japanese government for the general, his pretty wife and three-year-old son. It is the baronial eight-acre estate of the late Marquis Toshitatsu Maeda, which boasts a baroque, three-story mansion...