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Last week it was not even causing such compensating annoyances and minor inconveniences .as gasoline cards, tin-can drives or cigarettes flavored with coffee. The nation's production lines went on spewing out gleaming new automobiles, television sets and dish washers. The U.S. had seldom had more sugar, meat, steel, gasoline, whisky and nylon, or more manpower for the mink coat, bubble gum and trout-fly trades. Though prices were edging higher (in part because of unblushing profiteers), so was employment...
...Uproot Communism. Members of Nguyen Van Tin's league have to take an oath of allegiance and swear "to search energetically day and night for the means to uproot Communism." Two hundred men of Bai Trang have taken this oath. A hundred and fifty of them are used to protect the village against Communist night raids. Of these, 90 have only clubs and knives, 40 have rifles given by the French, and 20 have sporting rifles bought out of village funds...
Fifty times in the last year, Bai Trang has been attacked by Ho's guerrillas. Another attack could come at any moment. But for three months now there has been no attack. Says Nguyen Van Tin: "I think they have learned the lesson that in this village we are organized. If one of Ho's men hides his arms, the French soldiers can't tell whether he is a guerrilla or a harmless peasant. But I know them all -for miles around. The Communists we shoot on sight, Mister Reporter. The others, who are only...
...about to leave, the kids of Nguyen Van Tin's Anti-Communist Children lined up and burst into song: "With the help of the French and the Americans, we shall soon have a big air force...
Rifles held in readiness, the anti-Communist youth of Bai Trang stood with their backs to the village, scanning the fields for marauders. The black-gowned notables clasped hands between their knees and bowed from the hips. As my jeep rattled off, Nguyen Van Tin shouted...