INDOCHINA
Cap St. Jacques is the Atlantic City of Indo-China, a city of palms and black sandy beach, at the mouth of the Saigon River. There, a group of French officers on sick leave were dining one evening last week with their families. A war was going on 800 miles to the north, but none of the officers was armed, nor were their sentries. At the entrance to the dining hall, Elysabeth, Nicole, Christian and Michel, children of M. Jean Perrin, vice president of Air Viet Nam, played hide & seek.
While white-clad Vietnamese...
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