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Outside of Phu-Nai church, largest in all Viet Nam, a small boy ran ahead of Les américains waving a big new Stars & Stripes made for the occasion in the hardworking local flag factory. A six-piece brass band was on hand and a demonstrative crowd stood by, cheering wildly. In the gothic-style church, a choir of little girls dressed in white chanted, "Our Lady, pity Viet Nam and bring peace." Then the straggly-bearded parish priest. Pere Luc, presented an embroidered silk panel to his visitors and in the same breath asked for his dearest wish...
...Sign of Weakness. IndoChina's other strong man is the Doc Phu Tam,* a wizened little man who is head of the Sureteé Nationale, the political police. Tam's job is to combat the Communist terrorism which now stalks Indo-China. In the first six months of 1950, 14 Europeans, 17 foreign Asians (mostly Chinese) and 362 Indo-Chinese have been assassinated by Communist agents in Indo-China. Said the Doc Phu...
Little Mariette Nguyen Huu Hao was beautifully married. It took four days. On her way up Annam's great mandarin road along the coast she stopped off to climb a mountain and drink of the "frozen spring." Outside Huê, a cavalcade of palace mandarins on short native Phu-Yen horses met her in the Valley of Clouds and escorted her through the three walls of the Red City into the Palace of Passengers. Next day, dressed in a great brocaded Annamite gown, she stepped into an automobile and was driven to the Emperor's Palace, followed...