davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
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cruited from the local populace are
stationed, rifle or submachine gun in
hand, at intervals of so to 100 yards
along both sides of the roads and
between these posts.
BY night, French Union and Wet
NameSe. regulars fight Wet Mini
raiders in the dank, leech-infested
swampS and rice paddles. Sometimes
there are river battles when Wet
Mimi guerrillas take to low-flying
dugout canoes % drift silently down
lazy streams for ambush raids on
port storehouses.
Besides the concrete bunkers and
towers, and the home guards, barbed
wire entanglements help to protect
the roads and railroads. The barbed
wire serves two purposes. 1t keeps
passersby from wandering into Red
sown mine fields not yet diSarmed,
and it serves as a barrier against
night-raiding Wet Mini.
Harvest Time ..-
Behind the barbed wire entangle-
ments are the superbly rich rice
fields of the delta. Wet Namese
peasants work in these fields and
paddles in the daytime. Now is the
harvest time in Northern Wet Nam,
and the peasants are working fever
ishly to get the rice cut and carried
to protected storehouseS, out of
leach of the Wet Mimi until it can
be sold.
The Wet Namese countryside is
laid out on the classical South
China-Southeast Asia pattern. Clus-
ters OF mud hutS with thatched
roofs form villages from which radi-
ate the fields titled by the villagers.
In these lowlandS, all the villages
have to be raised above water level
and are surrounded by mud-brick
dikeS which double as footpathS.
Centered in these villages, to protect
the granaries and the young men
from kidnapping Wet Mimi regulars,
are other Franco-Viet Namese units
like those which guard the roads.
OF course, there are more villages
than there are French and Wet
Namese troops to stand guard. Only
the more important villages are pro-
tected. The rest must organize their
own "home guard" units and fend
for themselves. They are usually
provided with light arms by the
French or through aid from the
United States.
Just how much Of the delta area
itself is actually under exclusive
Wet Namese government adminis-
tration is classified" undoubtedly
because it is so embarrassingly small.
An educated guess is that only 10
to 20 per cent of the people in the
delta area are now accessible to Wet
Namese government officials for COL
lecting taxes, electing local admin
istrators and organizing civic i'm
provement projects. In some addi-
tlonal areas, taxes can be collected
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archists, who have 40 Chamber votes
on which Pella must depend for a
working majority.
But it would be far worse for
Pella. of course, if the Americans
and British could not even make
good the October resolution. With
out even that, after all the shouting
and threatening and Growing, the
new Premier and his cabinet might
be in deep political trouble.
The Situation Now
That is roughly where the Italian
political situation stands at the mo-
ment. Pella may be wondering why
he helped bring the Trieste issue to
head in the first place.
His supporters say he had no al
tentative. They say the substantial
losses suffered by the Christian
Democrats in the June elections
were due in part to the failure of
former Premier Alcide de GaSperi
to obtain anything concrete with re-
gard to Trieste.
They say Italian and Triestine pa
tiences were at an end. They say
it had been understood all along
that Italy would have to get a sub
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Stantial concession on Trieste in re-
turn for taking and maintaining an
advanced stand for Western Euro
pean unification and the European
Defense Community. The time for
the payoff had arrived.
And anyhow, these supporters say,
the situation in Venezia Giulia had
been deteriorating for weeks and
months before Pella even spoke up
on the issue. They blame the Yugo-
slavs for making the first provoca-
tive moves last summer. And they
ask:
How could Pella be sure the re-
ports Italy was getting about Yugo-
slav intentions of pulling off a mill
tary coup in the Free Territory were
not to be taken seriously?"
They cited Tito's speech of Sep
tember at San BaSso as proof that
Yugoslavia in fact has already an
nexed Zone B.
Reminder for U. S.
And they remind Americans right
ly that Pella had not asked for the
specific actions promised in the Oc-
tober resolution, which is what
aroused Tito and brought on the
present tense situation. Pella had
been standing on his proposal for
a plebiscite in the whole Free Ter
ritory.
AS a matter of fact, they say, the
American-British decision was fiat
declaration of intention to pull out
of Zone A and turn it over to Italy,
so that it scarcely gave Pella even
a take-it- -or-leave-it choice. Under
the circumstances, they add, any
Italian government would have
taken it.
Pella's critics of the center and
moderate left parties are not con-
vinced that the Premier had no
alternative. Some believe Pella
hoped to intrench his political po-
sition by strong stand on Trieste.
He had organized in August what
he, himself, called a non-political
government to carry on administra-
ton and get the budget through
Parliament by the october 81 dead
line. He indicated he did. not ex-
pect his cabinet to last long after
that.
But these critics say Pella is an
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are supplemental to the regular Wet
Namese troops now being trained to
fight beside the French Union
forces.
The French also hope to develop
as quickly as possible local elected
governments and a civil service.
But the democratic movement, par
ticularly in Wet Nam, has not
amounted to much so far. mainly
because the principal emphasis has
been placed on winning the war, and
also because so much of the coun-
try is under Wet Mini influence
that democratic elections would be
risky.
Up to now (and probably until
next September) the French and
Wet Namese have been fighting
defensive war in Indo-China. The
Wet Mimi have been calling the
shots,
Buildup Phose
But as the Wet Namese Army
grows the hope is that it will be
able to take over most of the polio
ing job from the French. Today, so
Of the 80 French Union regular bat
tallons are pinned down in the 500
odd posts inside the delta That
leaves only 80 battalions for often
sive operations. When the Wet
Namese can take over the defensive
positions, more and more regular
battalions can be built up for mo-
bile operations against the Wet
Mini in the hill country and the
mountains beyond.
In the buildup phase, time is on
the free worlds side. The Wet
Mimi are Scraping the bottom of
the manpoWer barrel. The French
see proof of this in the Wet Mimi
tactic OF kidnapping young men from
the villages they raid. The Wet
Namese, on the other hand, have
hardly started to recruit.
With the Franco-Viet Namese reg
ulars welded into larger, more highly
co-ordinated commands, concerted
attacks can be launched against the
Wet Mimi. And as new areas are
cleared. Wet Namese light battalions
with political advisers can come in
and "unbrainwash" the local popu-
lace.
Most observers think this will not
be difficult, because the average Wet
Namese. like his brothers in South
cast Asia, is not much concerned
with theology. He has pride in his
country, of course, but the Wet
Namese hope they can appeal to it
better than the Wet Mimi, whose
links with the Kremlin have become
more and more apparent in the last
year.
Actually, the French grand STRAIT
egy is merely the Wet Mimi strategy
in reverse-highly mobile military
forces whose conquests are followed
up quickly by political indoctrina-
ton. The French think they have
the moral position, the manpower
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ambitious man who has had his eye
on the top job for years. They
doubt that he ever actually con-
ceived of his government as simply
stop-gap. And they ask: What
better issue could he have seized
on than Trieste to gain support in
the Parliament and the country and
turn his stop-gap government into
full-fedged one?
Criticism on Stond
Even some political leaders who
defend Pella generally criticize his
tactics on Trieste and especially his
threat to resign If the United States
and Britain delayed implementation
of the October decision.
That's something a prime minis
ter doesn't do" a Liberal Party
leader told me. HE doesn't put
the fate of his own government in
the hands of other governments.
He doesn't leave it up to London
or to Washington, or. in this case,
to Tito, to decide whether he re-
mains or resigns"
But Pella's critics join his sup
porters in saying that the United
States and Britain. handled the
Trieste matter badly. Above all, they
say, the official attitudes of both
Rome and Belgrade should have
been established in advance beyond
any doubt.
And most Italian politicians seem
to believe it would have been better
If the United States, Britain and
France had simply renewed their
1948 pledge to work for restoration
of the entire Trieste Free Territory
to Italy, but admitted frankly that
it was long-range goal that could
not be realized at present.
Pella's position with the country
seems to be very strong. But it is on
the floor of parliament where he
will survive or fall.
And that is where the pressures-
emanating from the strengthened
political Right-may become un-
bearable for the man from Pied
mont in the coming weeks and
months unless he can bring in some
thing tangible on the issue that
arouses Italian passions more than
any oener these days.
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but officials need French or Wet
Namese Army escorts.
That does not warrant the con-
clusion that the rest of the popula-
ton is Red. But it does mean that
Wet Mini political cadres still domi-
nate most of the delta population.
The Wet Mimi political leaders are
notably forceful men, inspired with
the usual Red zeal for the cause.
These cadres are not the kind
that can be weeded out with police
operations, because the local police
if any-are either in league with
them or intimidated by them. Out
side police have no quick way of
knowing them, and usually die be-
fore they find out. Of course, the
best way to get at these political
cadreS is to discredit them and sep
arate them from their followers.
Thus it has slowly-too slowly
become apparent that the war in
Indo-China is not only a military
war, but. more important. political
war The political Job to be done is
to expose the Wet Mimi as tools of
Moscow, as double dealers, as
peddlers of oppression and as phony
nationalists.
The Job is also to sell the shaky
Wet Namese government to the
people as something with future,
with right and free world might on
its side.
The Importance of political edu-
cation, of course, has been some
thing the French have taken too
long to understand. A look around
Asia-at India and the Philippines,
for Observation-Disclosures the level of
political education that might have
been attained in Indo-China had
the French paid more attention to
the welfare of their colonial peoples
in the past half century.
Now, to be sure. the French are
making haste. But this work of
political education can come un-
stuck if it is hurried along too
quickly. That is one of the dangers
today.
Two Weapons
The French now have settled on
two principal political weapons to
build and consolidate on what vic
tories are won on the field of battle
The first is a new, lightly. armed
Wet Namese light battalion. the
second a new Wet Namese political
structure.
The emphasis is on the first. The
light battalion is a special military
unit. equipped predominantly with
small arms, intended to operate
in French-held areas. It's military
mission is to clean out Wet Mimi
remnants, a job judged possible
with only light weapons and a little
artillery support. The light bat
talion's political mission is to wage
psychological warfare among the
people in their assigned areas.
These light battalions, of course,
Evening star., 1953-11-29
By Grohom Hovey

ROME.-Giuseppe Pella's political
honeymoon as Italy'S Premier ap-
pears to be almost over.
It could end abruptly-and the
Pella government along with tiff
it became apparent in Rome that
the United States and Britain were
unable to carry out at least par
TALLY their October 8 decision to
transfer Zone A of the Free Terri
tory of Trieste to Italy.
At least. that is the way the
Rome political picture looks at the
moment to many Italian political
leaders of widely varying attitudes.
There is irony in this situation
for these reasons:
/. 1t is generally accepted here
that the American-Britis decision
on Trieste was designed in part to
bolster Pella's f1edgling government
during it's crucial early weeks; in
stead, over the long pull, it might
be instrumental in bringing Pella
down.
2. Pella deliberately took hard
boiled-if politely worded-stand on
Trieste, and for a time it seemed
exactly the political issue that
could turn his so-called "caretaker"
government into the real thing; but,
if he should have to settle for sub
stantially less than the Americans
and British promised October 8, it
is doubtful that be could survive.
Perhaps these points need exam
ination and amplification.
Short-Ronge Victory
There is no doubt that the Anglo
American decision of October
constituted a short-range political
victory for Pella and his Christian
Democratic Party. Here was some
thing tangible on Trieste at last;
something actually about to hap
pen, and not just another pledge of
the kind the United States, Britain
and France made March 20, 1948,
when they took a stand for return
of both Zones A and B of the Free
Territory to Italy.
Pella's party did not hesitate to
claim credit for the October s deci-
sion. In election-type posters pasted
on walls and buildings, the Christian
: Democrats exulted: after ,ong
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President Eisenhower also has
urged that Congress put Social Sc
curity more nearly on a pay-as-
you-go basis" His request that
Congress postpone the tax increase
scheduled for the end of this year
would make for another step away
from the growing trust fund concept
and bring disbursements closer to
current tax receipts. And some Dem
ocratS claim that influential Repub-
licans want to postpone the increase
indefinitely.
Significant debate over social Sc
curity will come next year when
Congress returns. There will be
arguments over the tax boost and
over basic revisionS in the social
security program.
1t is possible, however, that moth
ing startling will be done. Next
year will be a poor time to increase
the social security tax Gust when
the Republicans are expecting to be
able to announce tax cutS). It will
also be q bad year to alter sub
stantially q program which most
voters feel they have money in
vested in, money. they believe, which
Is earmarked and socked away for
their old age.
So. guesSes are that next years
debate will lay the groundwork for
changes after the '54 elections. An
easy compromise on the tax in
crease would be to postpone it for
a year. A postponement would
mean a loss of 81 billion to the
trust fund. but Social Security
actuaries say that loss would do no
damage.
The crossroads still will be there
IN Ass. however
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1953-09-11
The StOry Of Louis l.ipsky

was loss to American letters,
the question remains did Zionism
profit? There are serious COM
plexities in his makeup. Artistic
and Bohemian, he stresses mass
action and demands discipline.
His aversion to clericalism in re-
ligion is almost pathological, yet
he virtually breaches Jewish
chauvinism. Leaning towards the
left, he always preferred bour-
geois Zionists to the socialistic
Mapai or Poali Zion. A master of
English and suffused with the
modern spirit, he remains the
alien never quite integrated into
the American scene. Lipsky rep
resents an enigma in dualism: a
passionate Zionist without blind
love for his people; an advocate
of Jewish Nationalism with mea-
ger understanding of Jewish his
tory; a believer in Jewry yet in
different to Judaism; a partisan
for Jewish culture with scant
knowledge of Hebrew, or Yiddish
literature.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1953-09-11

The attached letter from the
seven Jewish chaplains on duty
in Korea is the first word we
have had since the true agree
ment was signed. Addressed TO
the Jewish Community of Amer
lea. it voices the hope Of these
devoted men that American Jew
rY will maintain the bond be-
tween the home front and the
Korean front. Because it bears
such a poignant message OF such
timely import. I am sending you
a copy. so that you may share it
with your community.
Irving Edison. Pres.
NATIONAL JEWISH WELFARE
BOARD
las East 32nd Street
new 1OGk To- Ne l.
MUNSAN, Korea
August 10, 1858
We, the Jewish chaplains serv-
ing in Korea, join you, the Jewish
community of America, in a spe-
cial and fervent prayer of thanks
giving to Almighty God for the
end of the bitter fighting in
Korea.
We pray that the conference
following the armistice may lead
to a righteous and enduring
peace.
We join with you in a me-
mortal prayer for the sainted
souls of some of our most valiant
sons who made the supreme sac
rifice.
We pray that the sick and
wounded may be speedily re-
stored to health and vigor.
We take pleasure in expressing
our heartiest appreciation for the
superb performance of American
Jewry in meeting the religious,
morale, and recreational needs of
our fighting forces. We take pride
in the reputation achieved by the
JWB = representing American
Continued on Page ~
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tcon4inued from Page ls)

a feeling for social movements.
capacity for analysis might have
developed in Louis LipskY a col
unnist. commentator. and jour-
nalist of high dimensions. He ap-
pears to have that undefinable
intuition and discrimination that
is indispensable for creative criti-
cism.
But if Mr.. Lipsky's detection
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-10
| News Of Music
By Elena de Soyn

Erich Itor Kahn, pianist mem
Der Of the Albeneri Trio. gave an
evening of music in the Phillips
Gallery last night. The presence
of bound volumes on the piano
and that Of a page turner lent
his appearance a honey atmos-
phere and a semblance Of an
hour Of music given in a family
circle or for a gathering OF
friends.
A sight-reader par excellence
and an ensemble specialist, Mr.
Kahn has the advantage over
those who are in the business OF
giving piano recitals. He can
play hundreds of programs in
the time it takes to memorize
one.
Among items listed on the
program, Mr.. Kahn's own "Ciac-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-10
Honey Atmosphere Is Present
In Erich Kohn|s Recital

coma del tempt di guerra" was Of
special interest. having. possibly,
its first local hearing on this oc-
casion. The reference in the
title to war times" as well as
it's modernistic idiom. spoke for
it's recent vintage.
In length and difficulty, it was
the piece de resistance Of the
evening. If placed side by side
with the familiar chaconnes Of
Bach and by other classical COM
posers, it is revolutionary in
sound and completely. LISTS
"Ballade in B Minor" which pre-
coded Mr.. Kahn's composition.
filled with cliches of LISTS par
ticular brand, was technically ex-
acting and worthy Of techni-
clan such as Mr.. Kahn.
The recital began with Bach'S
Fantasy and Fugue in A Minor, -
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more beautiful because your
skin is firmed, lifted, frightened.
Invisible Beauty Strap is a
Frances Denney preparation, and
every time you use it you enjoy
the same face lift" for your
beauty, the same up-lift for your
spirit.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-10

dersl Jawline pufiness, mouth
to-nose lines and that tired look
seem to disappear.
You can feel this amazing cos
metic lifting" as it tends to
mould the loose flabby skin of
the face into the firm taut lines
Of youth. You can see it lifting"
as wrinkles seem to smooth away
and you look so much younger.
Apply this ''face lift" before
makeup, massage it onto the
skin. Quickly it becomes invisi-
bic. Your makeup is smoother,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-10
Dunn Loring School
To Discuss READING

Dunn Loring (Va.) Elemen-
tary School will sponsor a panel
discussion on remedial reading
at 8 pm. tomorrow.
Speakers will be Mrs. j. F.
Hilder, District schools; Miss
Emily Knott, Alexandria schools;
Miss Barbara Batter, Arlington
schools, and Harold Ford, Fair
fax schools.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-10

and Haydn's Fantasy in c Ma
jor," closing with three French
numbers: Faure's "Nocturne in
D fiat Major, No. 8. op. 63" and
Chabrier's "Idylle, and "Scherzo
Valse." It cannot be denied that
some advantage may be derived
from memorizing music. if only
to acquire the knack Of reading
between lines.
Admitting Mr.. Kahn's self-dis-
cipline as regards style and dy-
namics when playing ensemble,
it is difficult to understand why
he should treat his solo appear
anceS so specifically.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-10
Presidents Grandson
Gets Birthday Gift
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK, Mar. 10.-A gold
painted toy electric automobile
arrived from Germany yesterday
as a 5th birthday anniversary
gift for Dwight David Eisen-
hover. II, grandson of the Presi-
dent.
The little car. gift of the
Schuco Co. Of Frankfurt, has
three speeds and can be started,
steered and stopped by remote
control through a long, thin
electrical cord.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-10

Invisible Beauty Strap, one of
many Frances Denney prepara-
tiOns, is on sale in the cosmetic
department Of The Hecht Co.,
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Evening star., 1953-01-11
Mrs.GoodWin
To Entertain
Mrs. Clarence Norton Goodwin

Mrs. Clarence Norton Goodwin
will entertain at luncheon in
her Georgetown home on jan
uary 20 prior to the first matinee
concert of the National Sym
phony Orchestra. Mrs. Goodwin
and Sonora de Ia Colina are CO.
chairmen of the White House
Spanish and Portuguese Speaking
Glass Committee for the after
noon concerts.
Among the group invited to
attend the luncheon are Sonora
de ConcheSo, Sonora de Mora,
Sonora de Castro. Sonora de
Andrade, Sonora de Oreamuno,
Mrs. Leslie Munro. Mime. Yang,
Mrs. Harold H. Burton, Mrs.
Homer Ferguson. Mrs. Robert
s. Kerr and Mrs. Carroll D.
Kearns.
Others asked to attend are
Mrs. Charles B. Cabell, Mrs.
Robert L. Walsh, Mrs. Bernard
l.. Robinson, Mrs. George Cor
don Moore. Mrs. Samuel A. Alex
ander, Mrs. Victor e. de Mers.
Sonora de Nicholson, Sonora de
Espinosa. Mrs. Francis c. de
Wolf, Mrs. James H. Gilman,
Mrs. Kingdom Gould, Mrs. John
Putnam Marble and Mrs. Frank
West.
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To Talk on Russia

The Junior Woman's Club Of
Chevy Chase, Nd, will meet at
8 pm. Thursday at the club
house, 7431 Connecticut avenue,
Chevy Chase.
Guest speaker will be Mrs.
Brewster Morris whose husband
was attached to the American
Embassy in Moscow from 1948
to 1850. She will relate expert
ences Of an American living In
Moscow.
Evening star., 1953-01-11
..Glogau Photo,

Mr.. and Mrs. j. Howard Birch
Of Chevy Chase announce the en-
gagement Of their daughter
Mary Eileen to 1t. G.g.) NAL
colin Bruce Martin, U. S. N. r..
son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert E.
Martin of Richmond.
Miss Birch was graduated from
the Academy of the Holy Cross
and Georgetown University
School Of Nursing and is now
assistant supervisor in the op-
Grating room Of Children's Hos
pital.
The bridegroom elect. who is
a doctor, recently returned from
Korea and Is now stationed at
the Naval Hospital at Ports
mouth. Dr.. Martin was grad
uated from and interned at the
Medical College of Virginia and
served q three-year residency at
Children's Hospital in Washing
ton.
The wedding will take place in
early April.