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...clash of arms over Viet Nam has obscured a noteworthy development: for eleven weeks the nation has gone without a coup. That in itself says something for the government of Premier Phan Huy Quat...
Though no one has yet found a cure for the nation's agonizing dementia politica, Dr. Quat has at least made a start. Since he accepted the premiership in the waning days of General Khanh's regime, Quat has moved with agility and a refreshing absence of dogmatism to ease tensions among South Viet Nam's neurotically suspicious interest groups. To be sure, the Buddhist-Catholic split still gapes awesomely, the warlords of the Armed Forces Council still intrigue among themselves, and South Viet Nam's 40 political parties are constantly quarreling...
...Road. But Quat has spent long, private hours with Buddhist leaders in an attempt to lower the octane of their disputes. Perhaps as a result, the Buddhists seem willing to give the government a chance: whereas immolation was once a favorite device for advertising Buddhist grievances, bonzes recently snatched away the matches of a gasoline-drenched Buddhist...
...Quat's unpublicized talks with Saigon's Catholic leaders have won him at least passive support from that quarter, and his handling of the military has also shown promise. When a group of junior naval officers mutinied against Admiral Chung Tan Cang - thus setting in motion a chain of military movements that could have ended in a coup -Quat quickly brought the mutineers to trial for breach of discipline. At the same time, he suspended Cang pending a full investigation of the mutineers' charges: graft and malfeasance. Military order was maintained, and the customary Vietnamese tactic...
...only as Alfred Lunt, but as a thinly veiled Impresario S. Hurok, Munshin has chances to show his mettle, and Les Quat' Jeudis are agreeably different, or French enough to seem so. As the author of almost everything spoken or sung, Charles Gaynor is not uniformly sprightly. Indeed, Show Girl is full of ups and downs, but is never long enough down for dire trouble, and is often high enough up with its star to be one of the season's few real sources of laughter...