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...small and troubled Communist land of North Viet Nam, just about the safest thing to be is a Cabinet Minister. If Boss Ho Chi Minh likes the man, he is apt to keep him around, no matter how many mistakes he makes. But the performance of Finance Minister Le Van Hien was too much even for the indulgent Ho to bear...
...Last week, his weight down to 90 Ibs., staying alive only with occasional pinches of salt, bowls of rice broth and fruit juice, Vo totted up his recent appeals to world figures, including U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, Nikita Khrushchev, President Eisenhower, Vietnamese Communist Boss Ho Chi Minh...
...army in Algeria had purged itself of all senior officers with "liberal" tendencies and had set up Committees of Public Safety in every Algerian commune. Behind these maneuvers, charged L'Express, was a youthful, fascist-minded "college of colonels" whose moving spirits had served against the Communist Viet Minh in Indo-China. From their enemy they were said to have developed an intense admiration for Mao Tse-tung's psychological techniques in controlling villagers. (Algerian rebels who served in the French army in Indo-China are also said to have learned in the same school...
...leader, Prince Souphanouvong, was no Communist but a royal prince and a devout Buddhist, they argued; his followers were few and badly organized, and their program in any case was moderate: peace, unity, neutrality and cooperation with all nations, including Communist China and the neighboring Viet Minh. Only a few pessimists feared that by the general election of 1960 the Pathet Lao-which renamed itself the Neo Lao Hak Xat or Patriotic Front-might successfully subvert the charming little country, into which the U.S. was annually pouring some $43 million in aid. The first surprise came when Soupha-nouvong captured...
India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was doing his utmost to provide fun, games and proper roosts for three foreign birds of altogether different feathers. The New Delhi visitors: U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Henry Cabot Lodge, North Viet Nam's vermicelli-bearded Red Boss Ho Chi Minh, Afghanistan's King Mohammed Zahir Shah. By all odds, Ho was the corniest good neighbor, kissed every official within reach, made misty-eyed speeches with proletarian humility, begged New Delhi's schoolchildren to call him chacha (uncle), the same term of endearment they have been taught to call...