Two days before Communist Vietminh troops marched into Hanoi last week (see FOREIGN NEWS), a company of bare-chested Legionnaires marched into a factory and went to work. They smashed huge holes in the brick walls, hauled out all the machines they could carry and loaded them into waiting trucks. Within hours, the prosperous $15 million Brewery & Cold Storage of Indo-China was a wreck, but much of its equipment was headed south into the French zone. Like many another French business, the Brewery had first hoped to stay in Hanoi after the Geneva truce partitioned the country last July. But at...
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