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...while the Binh Xuyen resumed its arrogant patrolling and called up reinforcements. "Vietnamese anger is mounting," TIME Correspondent Dwight Martin cabled from Saigon, "and many foreign observers sympathize completely. It is probably too strong to say, as some are saying, that the French have a Machiavellian master plan to subvert the anti-French Nationalist Diem and with him the U.S. effort to save South Viet Nam from the Communists. But most Americans here conclude, nevertheless, that French actions and policies will have that effect unless they are soon and sharply confined. There are endless skeins of intrigue and sabotage being...
...place-a wrench-shaped "linguistic state" of 21 million Telugu-speaking people carved out of its neighbors in 1953-which the Communists had confidently expected to make their first political base in India. They talked extravagantly of turning Andhra into their "Yenan," a citadel from which they could subvert the rest of India. They already had 46 seats, only seven fewer than the Congress Party, in the state assembly. Andhra is their kind of breeding ground: a place of extreme and uncaring wealth, and of miserable poverty. In Andhra, four in every ten people are tenant farmers and landless agricultural...
...fundamental Communist strategy of conquering free India legally through the ballot box, into which six years of painstaking work had gone, lay defeated and discredited. "I do not understand how it happened," muttered one Andhra Communist, a gaunt man with curly hair, whose job it had been to subvert the untouchables. "The stupid, dumb, illiterate masses have let us down. We should go underground and recommence our violent struggle...
...Released last October after five years in a Polish prison, Hermann Field spent a month "convalescing" in Poland, then continued resting in Switzerland. According to him, the Poles had misconstrued his efforts in 1939 to help Czechs fleeing from the Nazis "as part of a British-American plan to subvert the postwar Czech regime." Last month, said Field, the apologetic Polish Communists paid him a $50,000 indemnity, plus $1,500 to cover his convalescence bills...
...formed in 1953 among the 21 million Telegu-speaking people. As such, it is only one of 29 Indian states, but India's Communists hope to make it their first conquest; they talk confidently of converting Andhra into an Indian "Yenan," a power base from which they can subvert the rest of India...