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tionn rulers acting an be- This, perhaps, is half of France.
talking in riddles. movements The most that enn be politicu! hoped of the new regime aspirations of Viet Nam headed by the ex-Emperor, are exceedingly complicated. Bao Bai, in Viet Nam, is To clarify them, first an that with French troops examination of the map is and American money the necessary.
ASIA
are supporters of
made it conselences of Christinus in a
Chi-minh. (There Is, indeed, a possibility that Bao Dal is in- tending behind the backs of the French, to reach an agreement with Ho Chi-minh. That aspect will need to be examined Inter). Nevertheless, there are reports This "Viet Nam" is, IL- China, Or
in commercial HE French will never ceptable to the majority of holh terms are somewhat
The political terms that in Bao Dai's old capital in The advantage. complicated. indo China the rule
Inhabitants of Viet misnomers) have no rachi elf,
finally reached between Bao Annam some political and re- French Colonial Empire in Dai and France Were again. directly. Nor Nam. And to keep Viet or linguistic connection.
detailed glous support is appearing. It will they ever
of corporated the southern and last year in letters, exchanged is strange, to Western ears, to Communint sweeed in Minh, the
The two provinces under control Laos and Cambodia are the most highly populated of with Presidint Auriol.
learn, however, that the largest It will be particularly in number of Vietnamese Christiāna trol of the component will require the continued homes of ancient civilisa- the three districts, Cochin
readers to (Catholics) Parts-Viet Nam. Laos and presence of troops and tions, but are inhabited by China, directly under French teresting to British Cambodia-through tradi- money.
comparatively primitive rule, Elected deputies sat. 'learn how far short of "Dominion Ho Chi-minh. Papal pronounce-
siatus" is this constitution in
have sense, that atil last year, in the French Viet Nam. Viet Nam would not ments recently like people-in the The they have little knowledge of Assembly in Paris. The have power over its own foreign easier for the
two provinces policy. This in to bo "co- these eastern and commercial skill. These two ather
of the "Supreme Council of the Communist-led movement. countries have remained "off Annam, a long thin seaboard ordinated" under the direction
Geographically, Bao Dal's re- the beaten track," of com- province, and Tongking, on Union-that in a body includ
polliciana mercial civilisation: They the frontier with China Ing French
and public is a string of fragments form of protected technicians. Conventions, mon His capitat Es Saigon, his have now been elevated to had a
and indirect rule over, were to bo negotiated for
fortress is 800 miles the status of independent status
Bao the fintioning of French troops strongest
within Viet Nam.
nway in the north whers almext states, "within the French under titular rulers, Union." But politically Dui, as Emperor of Annam, under Communist leader.
Though technically "full in all French troops have been ternal sovereignty" was to be concentrated in fear of an un- ship will be suppressed by THE French coined the these states follow in the was the last of these rulers.
invasion from Chima, term Indo-China. The wake of their
more "l-
Two rival forces are granted there were a number Ilkely force. But there is nearer-
"Subjects of the Travel, unconvoyed, between ly hope that Bro Dai will "Indian" element, and the vanced" neighbour
-the
siruggling for control of of exceptions establish a government ne- Chinese element (although area called "Viet Nam."
"Viet Nam," which is now taken to mean the three (provinces, Including Cochin China. On the one side is the ex-Emperor Bao Dai, who is now President of a Republic and on the other in "President Ho Chi-minh fan acquired name meaning "The Brilliant One"), who equally claims to rule Viet Nam and is the leader of a political alliance termed Viel Minh-a "national liberation movement." that is techni- cally a coalition. Ho Chi- minh is
ntiomlist forces operatin, NAME COINED
POLITICAL, NEWW SERONT by W&
Mr. Morron's golden glory-o picture of his South Bank cenotaph.
THIS MORRISON
MAUSOLEUM
M
OST of us, when we
the cost was borne by their unhappy subjects.
21
1
met 112031.
to
river
experienced
Indo-China Is The Crucial Test Of Policy
Says
David Temple Roberts
own their
Communist leader of re- French Union"-Frenchmen-Hanoi and Saigon remains im- markable appearance, with were to be granted extra-lerri- possible without a safe conduct Moscow training, diplomatic trial rights including trial in from Ho Chi-minh's recognized
courts.
Moreover agents who grunt these against skill and overwhelming Viet- French businesses and French
ach payment in dollars old or Namese support.
have rquivalent currency. The Hong- "priority" relative to any other kong dollar # raid to bo AP- effective. Flying over "Vict
BAI DAI THE personal and political
over
techuleinns
to were foreigners, in the grant ot pointments or contracts. In other minh" territory Is practical-
words, the country would
re: this is no Westem war.
main a closed colony protected for Franch business and in-
and Queen focused the attention powers to the newly-formed will
over
Perhaps it is too much to ask
be
.
bo
DIVIDENDS INCE the recognition of Bao Dal's Viet Nam (and, simul
publication of
the
history of Buo Dai would certainly bar him from a dustry. To make the situation the French Foreign Office (and claim to power if the French easier the Vietnamese currency M. Pignon), the American State the British would remain tied to the French Department and High Commissioner, M.
to think agulu on Foreign Office Frane and mutual commercial
affairs of Indo-China? Pignon, were not so des- privileges would be granted be- the
France, Britain, and America a leading tween France and Viet Nam. we do of theperate to find 3:1 Froin every point of view the the
are committed to the young im- Thames, which John Burns once citizen of Viet Nam on whom
Those who know the progress petuous, brave and ineffective come to die, will not Festival in l-timed.
Moreover, it diverts labour described as "liquid_history." achieve the distinc-
Long ago, the South Bank to confer the prestige of towards "Commonwealth status" ex-Emperor. There can and material from much more
For of various cas of the British way of "reversing recognition further tho tion of a monument. And urgent purposes The housing shouki have been delivered from quasi - independence.
Come of these arrangements as
as prestige of the West. But that if we do, the cost will prob- shortage in London is still acute its unredeemed shabbiness and some months, in 1945, Bao Colonial Empire will recognise without damaging ably come out of such estate Much building has been done, me to match the opposite Dai had presided over the familiar. But it would be hard does not rule out every political
But do we need to
and Japanese fabricated state of to find "extra-lerritorial" justice, solution,
must not as we leave. It was not but it is doubtful if what has bankment.
any British allowed to commit the United been done and is now being done spend ten million pounds on a
to semi permanent ever thus. In ancient Egypt is keeping pace with current Festival in order to secure on Viet Nam-this was after expileltly, within
had finally territory and Implicitly it only States
of Indo- Occupation military the Pharaohs developed the needs, and still less overtaling improved! South Embankment as the Japanese
the occurs in the most backward. taken
from by-product?
China. practice of building their the immense back-log.
French regime. These are the legal and con- And it diverts the time and
But the decision. is taken, the Vichyite
on which tumbs during their lives, and
Frenchi diplomats hope the cry of public men from what buildings are going up, and soon Bao, Dai then, yery wisely, stitutional formulas should be their principal pre- the Festival will be upon us abdicated in the face of existence of a State of Viet Nam
todayhew occupation
That being so, we must all of us events and granted all his under the presidency of Bao Dal athleve our econointe survival
hope for its succeta, The King
be built. I must be Then the idea fell into disuse when Marshall Aid comes to an
of London on the Festival by Republic of Viet Minh, stressed that French opinion is nesly. Laos and Cambodia) the U.S.. two Ho Chi- generally more sceptical concern- by Britain and recently when Mr Morrison end.
The Festival is estimated to thought up the Festival of
press conforming themselves minh. After a
period of ing Viet Nam than opinion in events have changed Asia. One
other countries This will provide him east some ten arillion pounds, their visit to the work in pro- under this same
in Western is a great event writ large: the Britain.
other a Britain,
small, and feeble in- under Ho Europe including nominal service
п dication of trend, a sign that with a most impressive monu- The odds are that it will cost this, as in all other matters to
good deal more. For, as Pepys the public need.
11:4 a private where there is less knowledge And the cost will be sadly
Dinry, ment.
policy, even in South-Asia, ca observed in his
of the facts than In France. We inust hope that from all | Chi-minh,
the and from all citizen.
pay dividends. The first is the perceive that it is not possible over the world,
ex-Emperor
pay borne by the taxpayers.
bo- the treaty for the King to have his needs ve Britain. in
offound his way to Hongkong, THE CONTRAST spite
tween the U.S.S.R. and that
132 against Not
ordinary as cheaply an
the accommodation difficulties,
with a end from thence, Festivals,
tens festivities-being or
people will come in their
for NOT only the Communists, in People's National Government The second in the when off duty, cheery roul,
and hundreds of thousands, and considerable personal
France, doubt the validity of of China.
withdrawal Karen and Com- make the Festival such a success tune, to his villa at Cannes.
Bas Dul's claim. The contrast with
munist pressure on Rangoon -- But there must be a good reason
that
the demand on the tax-
optimistic
duc to a con- to be I see little for them.
Negotiations of 1948, before between the recent within will be kept
of Mr Malcolm ring, payera
Indian the formation of the Vietnamese speeches fertive about in a situation in
MacDonald, the British High which as a nation, we have put
reumable bounds.
Meantime the gaunt ruins of state, were completed in Riviera Commissioner for Southeast Asia Pakistan policy, of the Inde
but "marxist-nation- right atmosphere. Bao Dal, who had and the felters of sixty-uve de pendent, ourselves into pawn
Whatever the cart, It will come St. Thomas's Hospital,
allst", Government of Burma. preferring pulles
President
Vincent
The writer hopes to show, in Americans, and live largely on
out of taxation, That means the opposite the House of Parlia
following article, that these mis- a fol xing of the provinces for the cat, shouki rerve as a constant famusement to politics, showed Auriol would be amusing if it an overdraft.
reminder that in
reveal a tragic
provide an hard political bar- did not presumed benefit of the capital. should put Grst things first, and
Inet,
understanding, doubt, and lack two events He gained, i Money is collected from the tax the ery of the homeless for gainer.
of considered
policy.
Mr nient payers In Aberdeen to pay for
was, ap- French than they had been parently very
alms of the policy are five. well impressed
First
Soviet the
Russian willing to grant lo Chi-minh in with Bao Dai's regime. our own feet as a attracts to Londoners criticism
nimbition to extend an "Empire" the abortive negotiations of nation, free from foreign debt, which they do not want.
The French deputies, not to Southeast Asia; second, Viet able to look the whole
Fantainbleu the
but including Nam should be, again, a pro- previous year. Communists all, To the extent that the Festival
of the
"ico comer world in the face would indeed
attracting successful
if Mr Morrison and the The only difference was that the members of Parties to Right of ductive be an occasion for a Festival.
foreigners to London, it will
appalled at the bow!': third; the catastrophe of
fruitles But that day is a long way off.
loss of prestige permanent, already Government will liced the report French were most unwilling to Centre, were
military exaggerate problem
the of the Working Committer on grant real concessions, anywhere disaster-and
that France faces. Moreover, a occupation of Viet Nam, mak- "Dominion slatus," the building industry; if they near
in M I greatly impressed critical-as, for example, Nor am
recent manifesto calling for ing the problem of hotel accommodation will remove the
country "Greece, in that with the
intiumerable British terminology, to the Com-
be negotiation with Ho
Asia". should
avolded: Festival will
trade in London,
national development tracie What to«}c
and cannot be waved South Asia; and afth, a stable
ex-Communist with
renewed sharp for
constructive Co- "PRIORITIES" revulsion against Communism, operation between Europe and
knows the French Empire. He Asia in the economic develop CONCESSIONS to Bao Dal, has been a leading figure on ment of the area.
however the powerless "Em- several Commissions of Inquiry. It is the belief of this writer
Agla could
Aberdeen pays
Supplementary estimates will doubtless come along i due
the SAN 10
Some day, but-
futuru
1
We
for reputation
himself a
to
The day when we can again high jinks in town, a fact which homes should always be in our more paper concessions from the Malcolm MacDonald
:::{ l
aract
argument
stimulate
stimulate
3.
cuts.
The big if-
Chl-
the certed
of
1 for
diplomatic
thr
new
and
argu- polley-a policy - in Asia.
The Board of Trade is already hawkins on building which, as munist leader with a real move. truce, and a change of heart was fourth, Iwould be to take some notice at its wit's end to cope with the the committee point out, lead to iment in existence and netual by (among others) Andre should be alkowed to fourlsh in of the reports of the Working present tourist trade so far as vastly increased cost: If they can i possibilities of controlling the ride.ente politics," Gide, un political basts should be formed
various On
the
C3%
nside as
n
persuade the bullders and the country. if the operatives to drop the res in London is concerned
the restrictive Committees
Festival doubles or trebles that dustries as they are published,
the committee traffic the problem, already to practices which
describe, if they can reduce the When we learn that American difficult will become insoluble.
Indeed the more I think about present fantastic building prices plants can produce five times
the Festival of Britain,
under which the average mare
of a council house is £1,000-peror of the Night Clubs," were a In any case, his word and judg- that a sound though difcult many forgings as English the plunts in the rame amount of convinced I am that the reasons
not begrudge a different matter. He could not ment are never given lightly. when time,
we learn that it given for it are not the real then we will
obtain power without political The crude, unwelcome facts policy in concessions; but equally he could ord
Вло that
Dai takes four men in the building reasons, The real reason, I sus cuitable monument to Mr Morr!- industry to do the work that peet, le Mr Morrison's well- son.
Inudablo
following. even be happy to not gain or hold power without small I should was done by known and entirely.
can To grant him he
And few before the wor three, and so on, I feel that stesire to clean up the South make a modest contribution to a French army.
it myself.
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