Word: viets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communist radio of North Viet Nam joined in reluctant unity with its Communist brothers in Eastern Europe. It had trouble to report, too. "Riots," said the Red radio, "broke out in Nghean Province when a gang of reactionaries, taking advantage of mistakes committed during the political implementation of the land reform, molested soldiers and cadres of the people's regime, seized quantities of arms and blocked traffic. Many dead and wounded were reported among the soldiers and cadres. Drastic measures have been taken to maintain security...
...overpopulated province of Nghean, which lies south of Hanoi, is a troubled ground that in an earlier day produced wispy, goateed Communist Dictator Ho Chi Minh. According to reports reaching South Viet Nam, peasants armed with swords and farm tools surprised Communist guards and took their weapons. Some Viet Minh local units joined the rebels, too. General Hoang Sam's crack 304th Division drove the insurgents into the hills, where they are now setting up the kind of guerrilla resistance that Comrade Ho pioneered...
...Denmark, at noon one day, every church bell in the country chimed in unison, and the nation (pop. 4,500,000) marked five minutes of silence (the last occasion was their deliverance from the Nazis). In Montevideo. Uruguay, students burned the Soviet consulate to the ground. In South Viet Nam, all 123 members of the Legislative Assembly paraded through the streets of Saigon, wearing mourning white in sympathy for Hungary. In Reykjavik, Icelanders roughed up a Communist Member of Parliament, and demands rose for a reconsideration of Iceland's decision to eject U.S. forces from the NATO air base...
...Communist North Viet Nam published a decree ordering full freedom of religion, thus becoming the first Red nation in Asia to deviate publicly from the Moscow line. The order, said Radio Hanoi, was intended to correct "a mistaken policy of the government in the past." In all likelihood it was also intended to woo back some of the 700,000 Roman Catholics who fled to free South Viet Nam to escape Communist persecution...
Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker printed a translation of a poem composed to extol his war in Indo-China by Viet Nam's spaghetti-bearded Red Boss Ho Chi Minh. In one stanza Ho seemed to allow that sometimes he lounged back in headquarters, boozing it up while his boys were out sniping at the French: "Leisure after work/on army affairs; autumn wind/ autumn rain and autumn cold/ Chills; then one hears/the sound of flutes/coming through the hills;/guerrillas have returned/and I rejoice that wine enough/ is left for them...