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...came easily. The half brothers decided that the fighting (such as it had been) should stop. The Communist districts would rejoin the rest of the little country (pop. 1,400,000), the Communist leaders would eventually join the Nationalist government in a sort of coalition, and the Communist Pathet Lao army would merge into the regular Laotian army. Eventually, the strength of the Communist infiltration would be tested in "nationwide general elections," after a period in which "the Royal Government must recognize and guarantee the right to carry on legitimate activities throughout the country for a patriotic front...
...promised Nehru solemnly that he would never dream of such a dreadful thing, proceeded forthwith to violate a frontier. The Communist Pathet Lao regime, which had grabbed some 13,000 sq. mi. of northern Laos in flagrant violation of the Geneva cease-fire agreements, began as a Viet Minh appendage. In the past year Ho's agents have built it up into a tightly disciplined Communist state, complete with full-dress government ministries, a capital at Samneua, brainwashing squads and a conscripted army of 10,000 men trained, supplied, and controlled by 1.500 or more regular Viet Minh troops...
...Pathet Lao units, sometimes in regimental strength, have repeatedly attacked isolated outposts of the royal Laotian army (TIME. July 25). Communist food seizures, for shipment to Ho's hungry Red River Delta, have created such widespread famine that the U.S. International Cooperation Administration this month began air-dropping 1,000 tons of rice to the 100,000 peasants who inhabit the region. Even the International Control Commission, made up of representatives of Canada. India and Communist Poland -with its Polish members dissenting-has complained of Pathet Lao activities...
From his capital at Vientiane, Premier Katay Sasorith has tried fruitlessly to negotiate with the Pathet Lao. appealed to world opinion, even threatened to order his U.S.-equipped army of 30,000 to liquidate the Communists-only to be restrained in this by the U.S. and others who feared that Ho might retaliate in force from across the border...
...Europe, landscape painting did not amount to much until religious art declined. Things were very different in the East, for China's two greatest religious leaders, Confucius and Lao-tse, carefully taught their followers to contemplate landscapes. Wrote Chuang-tse, a disciple of Lao-tse: "The true sage, taking his stand upon the beauty of the universe, pierces the principles of created things...