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While the turnips and lettuce waxed luxuriant, the man the Communist sentries were assigned to protect was up to other matters. Bronze-skinned, mustachioed Prince Souphanouvong, leader of the Communist-controlled Pathet Lao forces which occupy the northeastern Laotian provinces of Samneua and Phongsaly, was determined to get representation in the Royal Government of Laos on his own terms. To this end he assiduously cultivated the idea that unity in Laos was a family affair. After all, his half brother is the Premier, Prince Souvanna Phouma...
...Pathet Lao has consistently refused to honor the 1954 Geneva agreement placing the administration of its two provinces under the royal government; Pathet Lao forces, Communist-supplied and equipped, have been waging haphazard war against royal government troops for more than two years. The Reds' idea of a settlement is to be incorporated into the royal government, and the princely Premier had shown signs of falling for it. The Reds kept pressing. Souphanouvong argued: "To be really neutral, Laos should accept economic aid from China as a counterweight to American aid." Royal Premier Souvanna Phouma, who had come back...
...Geneva conference that ended the Indo-China war left unsettled the status of the Communist-directed movement called Pathet Lao (estimated membership: 6,000), whose olive-green "resistance" army dominates two of Laos' twelve provinces. Because the leader...
...Pathet Lao is Prince Souphanouvong, a half-brother of the Premier, Prince Souvanna Phouma, and because both brothers have sworn fidelity to aging, gout-crippled King Sisavang Vong, the Laotians have been inclined to dismiss Pathet Lao as une affaire de famille. Since August the moonfaced, Paris-educated princes have been going about the capital of Vientiane arm in arm, sipping champagne together, and promising an early settlement of their "family affair." Says trusting Prince Souvanna Phouma: "My brother has never been a Communist, only a misled patriot...
...Last week, smiling broadly, Prince Souvanna Phouma announced the settlement: Pathet Lao would be integrated (i.e., legalized), not only in Laos territory, as promised at the 1954 Geneva conference, but also into the royal government and army, and it would be able to establish workers', students' and women's movements throughout the entire country. Sighed a U.S. observer: "The Royal Government of Laos is about the only government left in the world which hasn't heard of the classic Communist maneuver of conquest by truce negotiation...