ought to be confident and share in the general optimism. Why not? 1 will tell you..
WAITING GAME IN MOROCCO
By Sefton Delmer
Oran.
160
For waiting just across HAVE just spent three border in Eastern Morocco is a powerful organization of Cairo-
days with the French arveted fanaties who are look- Army, watching young mg for just this opportunity to reservists comb out a rebel- not.
Infested mountain district
I can say this with authority.
1 gate-crashed my way across near the Moroccan frontier, the border without a regular They were doing well. visa to find out what these They searched hundreds of fanatics are up to.
caves,
And the indisputable fact 14
of then bulldozed dynamited the openings. All that the Sultan of Morocco, to the time they watched for snipers, mins, and hidden
arms.
Yes, an ewellent drive, by no FILC:1182 exceptional. Similar operillens were carried out simpultaneously Central and Eastern Algeria.
Pressure
Everyone is constident. On the Paris stock exchange Alge dan
b
141
Khures Oran trade is booming.
Here
whom the French handed over Morocce in a highly optimistic treaty of "Independence Interdependence" is incapable of exercising any control over the
his country. castern part of
Whilg the sultan and his government continue to protest their loyalty to their French
Eastera friends,
Morocco han
ixen turned into one vast base Dedicated
to the enrichment of errorists and expulsion of thus French from Algeria.
The ren who are doing it; Governor Hamidou
ank his
Bou-
in colleague Haj Mahameri
boral, commander
of Eastern
Down in the harbour trans- Morocco's Notional Liberation ports are unloading more troops, Army, more Runs, more planes.
They have a special assembly 200, camp ought to be confident
where they rteivo, UT, and
general epip, and train recruits optimist. Why not?
you
shure in
tr
from
I will tell all over Morocco and Algeria.
1 sloubitus how long the Government
to W be able
keep troops out here in strength necessary for the
inert of order,
re-cublish-
Already the French Socialists are putting premure on Robert
Propaganda
But here is the point which is
&larming.
st
There
is
evidence that Bouboul, under
Lacoste, Socialist Besident ordera
Calm, told from
his
Minister for Algeria, 10 send termir chets to a low during troops callid-up reservists the present sweeps in Algeria. home by the end of summer,
The rebels wer able to establish themselves in this uts trict berzuse na French adminia. trators, police or troops, gone near it since last October.
thin on They were 100
the ground to do so.
The
Murder
terrorists,
"Hicks
"Do not try to face them or Aght say his orders.
The Your arms and hide yourselves Your duy will CROSSRA French cannct keep this up. We can walt.**
As I prasanta
Moslem tn
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1956.
WORK THIS ONE OUT
CILES joins the campaign to cut down invitation of the Royal Society for the the Kitchen Front. Smile with Gites
accidents on the Home Front!
AND TAKE CARE!
The cartoon above has been drawn by Giles at the Watch next for Life on
Prevention of Accidents. This is Life on the Farm
but take care!
A NEW WAY OF LIFE
H
COMES TO
ANOI is so and, so silent,
Shops are
half-empty, Cara are
HANOI
By Russell Spurr
Over
The air terminal ad
musty ns
bar
the
This is the first: of two articles describing what is‡ happening in Com- munist controlled North Vietnam. The real revolu- tion, says the author, is taking place in the rice fields of the Red River delta.
.
tected by arclamps and machine gun posts from which the black- smeared French transports took off for Dien Bien Phu. so rare that idling gold-starred red flag
onto all these native fields of the Red River data must the Grafted
Soven disused a old traffic policemen signal with weathered
Vietnamese feelings onto their pride of come more than rations for the battice of Czech beer graced the
Army,- -more boj of possible Large Litoration
whee half-tained The tout faced cadre past, of present, surprised delight. Grass citadel.
or- futura achievement are the than food to sustain the present old political grows in some side streets; mon, fresh from
in this "liberated complicated doctrines of Marx meagre rations, but the wealth, French paratroops gulped down
pernoda" before
The old arguments still went cafes and ganisation folk, the pavement
countryside, set up shop in the and Lenin. of Stalin too, for the capital, for everytual indus- their last
dreadful death jump into their
on, more muted perhaps in the clubs have handsome yellow washed build- the dead dictator has come
falling fortress, little
which ings from
the French for little post-mortem desecra→
The customs men were atten- centre of the Communist.capital. The bored officers of the Inter- rulcd Northem Indo-China for tion in North Vietnam.
tive and polite, They always national Commission spoke their..
various Com minds with alarming frankness, are behind the munist curtains. Why
not blasting the government that Only friends or at worst non-
allowed enemies are
to go sentenced them to whisky and through.
night
looked Deing
screened barbed-wire cage by French police offer troops bad brought the them in,
I watched 48
they with which but hesitation * thy
talked with their captors in the fraction extremely determined
of other peasants. I of the population, were able to presence
realised the strength of Bou- exploit this.
They murdered all the leading boul's propagands,
These simplo country Moslem
who op Inhabitants posed them, burned their farma despite all the French show of the free, still believe that soon the and crops, and convinced
of the Moslem population French will leave them that the French were abdicating more to the mercy of Bouboul's
and Naster's bullies. here as they find obcheated
only M. Laroste Knows this Morocco and Tanis.
If the reservists
with too well. Let us hope he and drawn at Dy stage o! battle the rest of the French Cabinet resist to strength the lookout will be Bever
The young men from the rice- the French. And all of in pressure from their supporters Western Europe who depend un and give the army the chance fields and the jungle, victors of North Africa, strategically and to finish the job it has begun Dien Bien Phu and a thousand their savage skirmishes, raised so well. economically.
t
Us
In
for have
the
опос
vanished with the French.
A way of Ho walked out over eighty years. when the Communists marched
Something In 18 months ago. austere and dedicated, but in- tensively dreary took its place.
Tiger
THE
GOLD MEDAL
AN UNLIKELY MIXTURE
In the propaganda
In trialisation.
His picture is still displayed bookshope. Plenty of literature on "Stalin" Is on display.
of
по
the
HA
government pare
present
loneliness of their hotel billet,
One of the difficulties about
PROTECTED BY GUN POSTS
FANOI is the only place most visitors ever sce. They com- The Communist
it bitterly with bustling The airfield forts were under feels that any attack dollar-backed Saigon, the river new management. Sun helrneta visiting a Communist country is
personality" capital in the South. They cannot THEY proved to be something possibly
in Vietnamese history, on "cult of
the unques know that the real achievements and the tips of Russian tommy getting a prep at the works. Sa this unlikely mixture of soldiers might undermine
of revered of the new Communist regime guns peeped out of embrasures much is carefully hidden. So...
much is obviously staged built to beat off their countryside.
The Vicminh allowed me to and administrators. They were toned authority honest and lowly paid, fanati- President Ho Chi Minh. More have been in the
of North occupais.
But much of the barbed wire look under the ld. But I got cally imbued with the dogma likely, need for such a delicate That the true story
has Vietnam iles outside beyond the
at the new and Marxism.
was, cleared Ideological re-adjustment
everywhere my best glimpse
state structure yet
been felt in Vietnam, grubby suburbs...
there was cultivation, cultiva bureaucratic
when I went to change some Astan nationalism had shorn way out on the Communist
happened to be some them
and of knives
forks, periphery,
Gia Lam alsport was empty tions, cultivation. where Marxism is
Peasants were ploughing right money.
of the new South Vietnamese collars and ties and similar watered down
almost beyond when my plane touched down,
The French operated ICC. up to the fortifications.
plastres, purged of Bao Dal's European appendages, put them recognition.
to Courier tried
a parking
pleture,
American with an into drab high collar Jackets and
unicompt
dressed soldier on 0416 monstrous
The mushroom-like sun
new rulers of Northern place for out on the
too busy for runway. Indo-China aro theological debate. They hayo The silence was awesome is and Polish It set them laboriously re- as much as they can handle, Indian, Canadian
their consolidating, their own language educating. studying
sur- officer moodily reta-loved
baggage,
Nothing moved upon and reviving pensant erts and viving. crafts.
the acres of wind-blown grass and sunbaked concrete. Moss streaked the loading zone, pro-
hats
The future of their state lies Folk dancing is a cult among in the sweat and mud of the these riceЛleid revolutionaries, countryside. Out of the rice
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·HANOI'S LAST
HECTIC DAYS
nomination.
The sign of the new State old head- of the Banque, de quarters some areas, I learned, pill Bank decorated the boxes had been demollihed to
L'indochine. A uniformed door- make way for the plough,
nan supervised the parking of bicycles below the steps. No Food was more important now
fuss. A parking: than
Except that jumble, no defence:
deket for everyone. masses ot troups wero around.. They were practising that door there please, aiming near one corner of the airfloid. Crawling and attack- ing through the grass at the end of the main runway,
"What was it all for?! I asked. "Scority" said my guide.
I jotted it down. Then I noticed the peasants again.
"Food" I wrote.ni
A nearby notice said "Koop off the grass." Peoplo kept off! That's the way things work in North Vietnnar.
- SURPRISINGLY YOUNG STAFF
end maenllcent. But liko
The two words tell much of THE bank was still marbled the story of North Vietnam. Hanol, half empty. Not all the A shuma that I remembered cashiers kiosks were occupied. so much of Hanol in a last such of the furniture had beers His hoctie days.- tagonising removed, Tho senior staff had telephone nights, Presse
playing heare Campo
in
HE thing that strikes and if I do well in my exams I better understanding
Britain and China Royal Marine Commando " your conscience clear?" I Condren's motherthe family Andrew Condron, Who saked. Hell, yes, sald Candrom, lives at 90, Stuart Terrace
"I see I've Bathree-died last year.
GPO father is o "chose freedom" after the raising his voice.
done the right thing."
Andrew Linesma, and Korean armistice and who
Condron Is on apostato from him regularly.
Tho
while
theert The curvivors
the prisingly young.
French lost their battle way out. in the jungle.***
looked sur
after a
I ended up behind a window is now learning Chinese at (lapsed) Roman Catholic. Yes.. the People's University near I quit that stuff when I was 16. I asked him when he est
mind. The nightclubs with their where a young man was pal I used started to change hir Poking, is his overwhelming You know something?
talkingly examining piles of US. row Parisian artistes dollars, Ruccion roubles, and second concelt.
deliberately to chew the wafers about, things
The young officers about to die, chinese J.MAP. I watched him. during Holy Communion, which
"Och, after I hack been taken the home-dick African, soldieryo The self-satisfaction of this is a ein.
prisoner I began to see that we the opium dens and the brothels go through pile after pile with
a magnifying glass handsome Scot--he is 28 and
combining for a frantic, "And I used to make up lies were all wrong and the Com-l bears a startling resemblance to
right. con- murists were
They final 'fing-/ hands James Cagney-is one of the to tell the priest in the more odious things about him fessional-things I had never treated me fine--hook
and said "You are our brothers, "Would I do the same thing At I had to go
over it again? bet I would, I've nothing
Condron, sat
done of all."
of
hotel bedroom talking swigs Chinese boer and chatting about hanself in an Recent "which oddly blended his native Scot- land and the American
of his G.I. frienda
voices
You PACE
ANNA FURTHER FROM RENE MacCOLL'S RED CHINA NOTEBOOK
to be ashamed of."
REMARKABLE
SURVIVAL
girl with these
cut
had contemp stres
service southern.
-WDB,
men como
ros, leisurely. I wall- ed over on. hour. But then I also had to get a permit to krep fho Malayan dollars, I founta DESTAURANTS still served inside my wallet; it meant fill- Condron mora ho believes
some of the best Western food Img in a lot of forms implicity that the Aliled sile in
of young Korea was guilty of conducting in Aste. Shope were still plocked A compla
But when with cheese, wine and chinfics, up and scrutinised my discor "germ warfare."
no matter how many freight shirt. They felt the meterial.
rond-rail link with trains got dyntunited along the and shouted back focular com perilous Haiphong and the s
None of trend had the dur
and
their friencia PRI
KEMON nan read out entfcha
bust
the fro
A
the paris paper
The patient
His corroly, hair was jm- Where the name of your prossed bum for some proof of maculately groomed and waved priest Lot home? I mood. the be replied. vaguely, Och He spurted dove-grey slacks and Condron, paused, and then said there were bus doxancl, and all
Cambridge blue thvime-style wluctantly, Father Davite." {sporta Jersey,
"How would you feel if you Be took another put at his
Now meet some of your beer and said defiantly: " the memory.
almorpliers of a listened reverentir. Bald he: "Ooh-so canna fall" were fo to get a bit homicke now pod dommer Royal Marine comradios tend to go home some day paco
Mega Cerato Khat forure And if I meet seldom, used cathedral Thore baby fell down and then when yo ́live abroad, but I, "Och I'd walk up to them any of my old buckdies, I just was only one remarkabla aur scream, in old peasant like it fine here. I could. Sove and pase the tane of ute, Gays made them by the handvival the politics argumente dowed off and upset her shop- to-morrow 11 I wanted to, but
of Communtiam's loed, do *Vans One of those fine days," "Andy"
wom
younemies,
Andrew
"disunited "ping basket and i
CUWhoAMI:was topped go Viethdam spuit, most of their triumpbant, with my
me, those dying days, in mit more; toxins, andă, mi bundia) flarcely discussing: Ke Lakin,
of: Vietminh@monty,
* am particlly happy. Condena well be going back to think your did buck-lies might do witnessed the tall North shouba The Firi
The math worry is that I Ditheto you : weapons to youre relea
model up to them, ad ex don't. Ho the, Chinese food. L.""With what www.sfiorantraba of about 2 in "Och, to spread the word souut Marbero Commerido
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