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...Overholt's other main assertions are 1) that the Viet Cong are "trained in and supplied from the North"; 2) that "the war in South Viet Nam is carefully controlled from Hanoi"; and 3) that (in the French-Indochinese War) the Vietminh engaged in "much senseless killing," "tortured brutally and killed" villagers, and, after victory, substituted worse oppression...
What was it like out there! Explain all that to them, to these people who have scarcely ever left their valley; explain the Chinese and the Vietminh, the tall elephant grass of the Haute Region and the paddy-fields of the deltas, the mud and the dust, the fighting, the suffering, the dying, and what he and his kind were striving to find behind all this death...
Diplomatic sources said the Communist Vietminh apparently masterminded the blasts. They ripped a U.S. Information Agency library, a military bus and a hostel...
Cambodia (pop. over 4,000,000) is a country of Buddhists lying directly in the path of Communist expansion in Southeast Asia. During the Indo-China war, three battalions of Vietminh Communist troops entered Cambodia, and Red China claimed that a "resistance" government was in being. But after last year's general election in which Norodom, stepping down from the throne to lead his own political party, won all 91 seats of the National Assembly, the Communists reversed their tactic. With soft words, Communist Leader Ho Chi Minh suggested a diplomatic exchange with Norodom. Nothing doing, replied Norodom. "Your...
...days before Communist Vietminh troops marched into Hanoi last week (see FOREIGN NEWS), a company of bare-chested Legionnaires marched into a factory and went to work. They smashed huge holes in the brick walls, hauled out all the machines they could carry and loaded them into waiting trucks. Within hours, the prosperous $15 million Brewery & Cold Storage of Indo-China was a wreck, but much of its equipment was headed south into the French zone. Like many another French business, the Brewery had first hoped to stay in Hanoi after the Geneva truce partitioned the country last July...