INDO-CHINA: Job for Joe

INDOCHINA

Viet Nam, as President Eisenhower recently put it, is a land "temporarily divided by artificial military grouping, weakened by a long and exhausting war, and faced by enemies without and by their subversive collaborators within."

The more populous northern half is being welded together with ruthless Communist efficiency; the southern or free half is rent by feuds, and impotently governed by its honest but ineffective Premier Ngo Dinh Diem. Last week, in an effort to restore some order in South Viet Nam, President Eisenhower dispatched former U.S. Army Chief of Staff General...

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