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...teeming darkness of shadowy figures and shadowy hate. One such guard tower was a central factor in Graham Greene's Quiet American, a semi-novel purporting to display the hopeless struggle of French colonialism to save the truncated country from the onrushing tide of the Communist Viet Minh. As late as two years ago, touring Columnist Joseph Alsop pronounced South Viet Nam doomed. And the French, embarrassed at seeing the U.S. succeed with South Viet Nam's Ngo Dinh Diem where they had failed, whispered that it was only a matter of time...
...bloody business in which a whole uniformed army of reformers had marched into peasant areas, declared martial law, stripped tiny landholders of their farms, and shipped thousands off to prison or death indiscriminately. When its harvest turned out to be only unrest and barren rice fields, Dictator Ho Chi Minh tried to mend the error by firing Party Boss Truong and circulating a letter which promised drastic liberalization of his regime. Last week, at the sprawling seaport town of Tourane, a boatload of refugees from the Communist North stepped ashore in free South Viet Nam to tell a fuller story...
...around Quynh Luu, but other refugees had told him that there were similar uprisings in the suburbs of Hanoi itself, in Phat Diem, Thanh Hoa and Vinh. In many cases, solidly Buddhist peasants were prevented from joining their Catholic co-rebels only by hastily deployed units of the Viet Minh army...
...overpopulated province of Nghean, which lies south of Hanoi, is a troubled ground that in an earlier day produced wispy, goateed Communist Dictator Ho Chi Minh. According to reports reaching South Viet Nam, peasants armed with swords and farm tools surprised Communist guards and took their weapons. Some Viet Minh local units joined the rebels, too. General Hoang Sam's crack 304th Division drove the insurgents into the hills, where they are now setting up the kind of guerrilla resistance that Comrade Ho pioneered...
Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker printed a translation of a poem composed to extol his war in Indo-China by Viet Nam's spaghetti-bearded Red Boss Ho Chi Minh. In one stanza Ho seemed to allow that sometimes he lounged back in headquarters, boozing it up while his boys were out sniping at the French: "Leisure after work/on army affairs; autumn wind/ autumn rain and autumn cold/ Chills; then one hears/the sound of flutes/coming through the hills;/guerrillas have returned/and I rejoice that wine enough/ is left for them...