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...Late for Miracles. Neither the French nor their chosen native instrument, Bao Dai, showed any signs last week of being able to work miracles. Chief of State Bao Dai recently flew to Hanoi, supposedly to bolster the people's morale in the face of an expected Communist offensive. Bao Dai arrived in his C-45, which also carried a Scotty named Bubi, two bottles of King George Scotch, two guitars, three tennis rackets, 16 pieces of miscellaneous baggage and a cute, redheaded airline hostess named Esther. Wearing his inevitable dark glasses and a natty grey flannel suit, Bao Dai...
Reported TIME Correspondent Eric Gibbs: "Bao Dai has great intelligence and charm and the pneumatic resilience of a heavy-duty tire. Some critics seem to assume that all would be well if only Bao Dai looked less like an amiable playboy and made more earnest speeches to rouse the people against Communism. But if Bao Dai were Peter the Hermit himself, I doubt that he could launch such a crusade. The key issue is a matter of principle, not of personality. To any Vietnamese who thinks about anything beyond his paddy field, national independence is the one dominant thought...
...Real Independence. At Hanoi last week, Bao Dai colorlessly delivered a colorless speech stressing independence and announcing the formation of three new Vietnamese divisions. Meanwhile, the French and the Vietnamese, after months of haggling, had reached an agreement that as of January 1951 the Vietnamese would run their own treasury and their own customs service. But the French still lacked the will or the imagination to grant the Vietnamese anything that looked to them like real independence...
...present, China is actively supporting the Viet Minh rebel forces with men and weapons, so that the French are waging a losing war to maintain the unpopular Bao Dai regime...
...TIME file, consisting of our U.S. editions only, was complete through the middle of August. It was well-thumbed. On a desk in the room lay a copy of the May 29 issue with IndoChina's Bao Dai, emperor of Vietnam, on the cover. Near it was a copy of the Aug. 7 Pacific* edition (Formosa's Governor K. C. Wu on the cover) stamped "U.S. Diplomatic Service...