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...conditioned throne room, and refuses to wear the $15,000 diamond-studded derby inherited from his kingly grandfather. But nothing in King Norodom's career was quite so unorthodox as the way he went to war last year against the Communist enemies of his small kingdom in southern Indo-China...
...neutral in the fight. How ridiculous . . ." Then Taft took his general thesis one step further: "If we are able to disentangle ourselves from the U.N., we already have treaties with Australia and New Zealand, with Japan and the Philippines, and a very definite understanding with the French in Indo-China. I think we should [also] have a free hand to form a [military] alliance with the British [on] Far Eastern affairs . . . but not one in which they possess any final veto against our policies...
...could enable us to escape if, unhappily, a new war were to break out. That is the fundamental error of the so-called 'neutralist' thesis." But he sounded pretty neutralist himself; he promised to submit a plan (unspecified) to the Bermuda conference for "lightening the load" in Indo-China. He was earnest about ratification of the European Defense Community Treaty, but hinted that defeat on this point would not cause him to dissolve parliament. He advocated a cut in rearmament together with a planned investment program calculated to stimulate production and halt unemployment. He promised continued close relations...
...member of the Radical Socialist Par ty, which is in fact conservative, Mendès-France has advocated ending the war in Indo-China by negotiation. As a lawyer, he has defended the Tunisian nationalists and has attacked French misrule in North Africa. He has been openly distrustful of Germany. He has advocated limited disarmament to halt France's slide into bank ruptcy. Are such views practical politics? In a brilliant speech, Mendès-France almost proved they were...
Once there, Starobin faithfully followed the party line on Indo-China but he did clear up one point. For more than two years no Westerner has seen Ho Chi Minh, leader of the Communist forces. Wrote Starobin: "The highest points of my voyage . . . were two evenings in the company of 63-year-old Ho Chi Minh." As Starobin described him, Ho Chi Minh is "a rather tall man . . . His back is now slightly hunched, greying hair recedes from a broad forehead, and piercing eyes look out over high cheekbones. He wears the oriental wisp of a beard, and his hearty...