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Stewpans & Silverware. Ho Chi Minh, dedicated Communist, is a matchless interplay of ruthlessness and guile. Before he was nine, in the central Viet Nam province of Nghean, Ho was carrying messages for his father's anti-French underground.* In 1911 he shipped out of Indo-China as a cabin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDO-CHINA: Land of Compulsory Joy | 11/22/1954 | See Source »

But later, the embattled Catholics of the Tonkin area gave a better account of themselves, fighting with the kind of religious fervor so often theoretically invoked in the West as the answer to the fanatic fervor of the Communists.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Bishop's Soldiers | 10/4/1954 | See Source »

Islam lived through its first three centuries without any clergy at all, for each man is responsible for his own obedience to Allah. But increasingly the Friday service became a time when the imam discoursed on morals, freely relating the Koran to any contemporary subject, including politics. The opportunity was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Censoring Sermons | 9/27/1954 | See Source »

With pipes and drums, 5,000 Berber tribesmen, camped below the palace in the Moroccan city of Rabat, greeted the appearance of a wizened old man in a white gown whom the French a year ago made Sultan of Morocco. Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Moulay Arafa was nervous. The last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: MOROCCO: Running the Gauntlet | 8/23/1954 | See Source »

"My life I give for the freedom of my country," said the note carried in the pocketbook of ember-eyed Lolita Lebroón the bloody day last March when she and three henchmen of Puerto Rico's fanatic Nationalist Party sprayed the chamber of U.S. House of Representatives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SEQUELS: So Heinous, So Infamous | 7/19/1954 | See Source »

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