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...Slow Kill. Thanks to government reforms over the past few years, the nation that produced Louis Pasteur has got around to pasteurizing the milk in most French cities, and tap water is reasonably pure if a little flat. Frenchmen, if they will, could find plenty of other beverages to drink. Most of them, however, will probably continue to incline to the opinion that milk is for cats, water for crops...
...Paris, the Japanese, almost unopposed, took effective control of Indo-China. In what amounted in Asian eyes to a crowning loss of face, the Vichy-French agreed to cooperate with the Japanese. With flexibility and imagination, Ho patched together a "United Front" of Communists and Nationalists to harass both Frenchmen and Japanese. Ho called the new party the Viet Minh...
...French colonials make their own contribution to chaos. Some, hoping to maintain privileges in the rubber-rich South, are encouraging the Vietnamese generals to intrigue against Diem; other Frenchmen want to replace Diem with Buu Hoi, 39, a left-wing leprosy expert who has not lived in Indo-China for 20 years. In the Communist North, a 20-man French mission hopes to keep "the French presence" in the Viet Minh state, and do business there; there is even talk of French help to rebuild the vital strategic railroad from Hanoi to Langson on the Red China frontier...
Pursuit in the Hills. When the bloody day ended, eight Frenchmen and pro-French natives were dead, more than 30 wounded. Paris Le Monde lamented: "All this happened as if an invisible hand were looking for a way to destroy Franco-North African solidarity at the exact moment when we were about ready to strengthen it." Premier Pierre Mendès-France, who wants peace and a settlement in North Africa, had just served notice, in one of his fireside chats, that his government was going ahead with plans to let French Africa "have her large part in the social...
...million in Northern Indo-China, most of it in Hanoi. What the businessmen wanted after Geneva were solid guarantees of freedom and a sound financial basis for trade. What they got was the familiar Communist doubletalk of vague, high-sounding promises coupled with arbitrary action that showed Frenchmen-and all Western businessmen-the hopelessness of doing business under Red rule...