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Re The appointment of the new Cabinet of the Viet Nam is the answer to this definite French policy. Having taken heart by the clear-cut French decision, the Vietnamese will now enter the fight against the Communists with all their might. For that purpose, Nguyen Van Tem is ideally suited. He is universally respected in the Viet Nam as a man of courage, extreme energy, and integrity. His programme which he announced, is one of large national concentration, instead of the rather limited group on which the previous Government was based. Nguyen Van Tam is going to appeal to all anti-Communist groups on a twin programme - pursue the war with all means, and at the same time carry out those essential social reforms which are important for gaining the large masses of the people to the Government. In this sense, Nguyen Van Tam has laine that he would immediately start a large scale land reform, breaking up the big estates and handing them to the peasants. As is known already, the programme of Nguyen Van Tam will not be one of confiscation. He will give compensation to the land-owmers, and try to bring them into the developing industry. Fur thermore, Nguyen Van Tam has immediately invited the Cao Daists and the Catholics to join his Cabinet, which should make already a very great increase in power. This is the more importent since both Cao Daists and Catholics are known to be extreme nationalists. An appeal to nationalists at this very moment is great wisdom, since even in the last three or four weeks local riots have taken place in the Communist Viet Minh Forces, between nationalists and Communists. At a time, therefore, when a split between Communists and nationalists in the Viet Minh seems to be a possibility, it is a very fiw move of Nguyen Van Tam to try to gain nationalist support for his Government, and thus to increase the internal difficulties of Viet Minh. Nguyen Van Tam is probably the most violent enemy of the \ Communists in Viet Nam, During the war, he was head of the