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...Minh and his government are prisoners of the sinister Tong Bo, the Communist Party Politburo, and in particular of five of its members, rising young extremists who really run the show. The most important is Vo Nguyen Giap, the Vietminh's frail, passionate, 38-year-old Minister of National Defense. Vo Nguyen Giap, a Communist since his teens, was first arrested when he was 18. His wife died in a French jail four years ago. More than anyone else, he created the Vietminh army. A ruthless and bloodthirsty man, he has coldly directed the liquidation of anti-Communists...
...unassuming young Indo-Chinese student from the Left Bank named Vo Van Tu Quoc began dropping in to chat with Nguyen. The student professed to be a follower of Emperor...
...last week Merchant Nguyen and his family were gathered around the television set in the master's bedroom at Le Perreux waiting for the 9 o'clock news to come on. The doorbell rang. Pretty Ly ran down to answer it. The caller was Student Vo. Ly invited him upstairs to join the family circle. As the show began, the visitor leaped from his chair, whipped out a pistol and screamed at Nguyen: "You are a traitor to your country. You have been supplying the French with rice. You have been condemned by a tribunal of the people...
...Stockholm's Central Station the Czech ice hockey team lined up to take the southbound train. The players had just won the world's championship and they were in an alcoholic mood. Happiest of all was hefty, beaming Manager Antonin Vo-dicka. "Everybody here?" he asked. "We could not find Marek," glowered the thinlipped man whom Prague had sent along to act as the team's Communist chaperon. But Vodicka was unconcerned. "Maybe he's in the train," he hiccoughed and stumbled in himself...
...establish "harmony" with Russia). His purge of the press provoked the first open resistance the new regime had encountered. The government announced that all Socialist publications would be closed down this month when the Social Democratic Party "merges" with the Communist Party. At the plant of venerable Právo Lidu (People's Right), 55-year-old Social Democratic Party organ, 500 newspaper workers assembled in a protest rally. Shouts of "Strike!" went up. Social Democratic Deputy Premier Zdenek Fierlinger, who hurried to the Právo Lidu plant to try to smooth things out, was received bitterly. Said...