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- page three — Whereever the country is libbrated from Vietminh forces and sufficiently pacified, the new experiment has actually been startedp In a country where social differences had been out of proportion, a thorough reform of property has become essential, if rural masses have to be saved from communistic infilt@ation. Otherwise, red propaganda would have bad an easy task in playing up the liquidation of landowners carried out in neighboring China. Besides agriculture and fishing, indochina's main resources come from its mining wealth - especially coal and iron ore - ana the cconnected industriese in order to Legalize and guarantee the status of the working class, Emperor Bad Dai and his goveinment have proclaimed in July the new fundamental labor lawe it foresees protection and representation of workers and is the first step towards thb impending establist ment of free Labor Unions. The Indo-Chinese Federation: Cambodia and Laos. Gambodia and Laos - the two other members of the indochina Federation - follow the same general line of action as their Vietnanese ascociate State. They also have to face the struggie of a continuingy combined with the necessity of inner reorganizatione - ‘This has become recently most apparent in the innerpolitical evolution of vambodia. The country,xam ruicd by king Norodom Sihanouk, and by a National asserbly, vas involved in gueriila waffare lea in a dozen isolated areas of its territory. “he serious aifficulties, created through this situation, led in June to a spiit in the governmental majority. uf the eighty seats in the assembly, 54 were detained by the Derioceratic larty. in this group, as well as in the gover ment which it formed, two currents of ideas were op osing each othere ihe President of the assembly, Sonn Sann, supported by a group of 24 deputies, favored an extemist nationalistic policy and a rappoochement tovards the Gommunist groups ana the guerilla forces. The previous Prime minister, Luy Kanthoul, backed by 28 representatives, uphola on the contrary a continued opposition against communist infilt@&tion ana a policy of friendship towards France. . F.ced with that deep-going split in the governmental majority, ping Norodom sihanouk, placed himself at the head of a new government of National Unione He asked the National assembly to recognize him, in his post as Cambodia's Premier, for a three-fear period, duming which he would re-establish peace and order in the countrye After these three years, the King promised to have a people's court judge his administration. He would entirely submit to whatever sentence issued. in order to guarantee the freedom and independence of that court, the ging pledged that its debate and decision would be taken under the control of representatives of siz foreign nations. This peaceful coup and its new constitutional implications were favorabl; accepted by a new majority in the Assembly: the larger fraction of the Democratic Party and the Liberal Party. Cambodia is now free - along with the other associated States of Indochina and with France - to continue the fight against communism and the simultanmous restoration of its inner order. — a am * 719.
