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...villa by Lac Leman, three men hunched over a great man of Indo-China late one night last week. One was the Communist Viet Minh's Pham Van Dong; another was France's Premier Pierre Mendès-France; the third was Albert Sarraut, an oldtime French empire builder who had been governor of Indo-China in lordlier days when there were no such irritants as the Viet Minh. Each had a red pencil in his hand. Beneath their hands the map was slashed with red lines, until Viet Nam began to look like a body crisscrossed with...
...Minus-One. Mendès had begun that day, the next to last before his deadline, faced with new demands 1) from China's Chou En-lai for a slice of northern Laos to be attached to China's province of Yunnan, and 2) from Pham Van Dong for more than a third of Laos to be handed over to the "free" Pathet Laos movement. Heavy black circles under his eyes, Mendès had picked up his faithful backer Anthony Eden, rushed off to see Chou Enlai...
...Communists were looking for a pretext to break off the talks, Mendès had figured that U.S. "dissociation" was the one they were most likely to pick, since it would let them blame the U.S. for failure. Cheered, he went off to cut up the map with Pham Van Dong in the villa by Lac Leman...
DDay, Tuesday, July 20: The last day of Mendès' 30 dawned sunny and hot. In the morning, Mendès finished his talks with Pham Van Dong. Under pressure of Mendès' stubborn insistence on the 18th parallel as the partition line, Van Dong had moved from the 14th parallel to the 16th. For the first time, Mendès indicated that he might yield a parallel and Van Dong said he might wait for more than a year for elections. At 4 p.m., Eden, Molotov and Van Dong gathered at Le Bocage, another French...
Indo-China has a thousand-odd churches, some of them converted Buddhist temples (see cut). It is divided into 18 vicariates with about 1,400 native priests and 18 bishops (eight of them Indo-Chinese). Among them are Msgr. Pham Ngoc Chi, Bishop of Bui Chu and Msgr. Thaddeus Le Huu Tu, Bishop of Phat Diem. Msgr. Tu is the only Roman Catholic bishop in the world (besides the Pope, with his 100-odd Swiss Guards) to maintain his own private army-two regular battalions of 1,700 men, plus a militia of 5,800. (The two bishops and thousands...