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 J. Lawton Collins to Indo-China as his special ambassador. It will be Joe Collins' task to try to resolve the feuding between Diem and his generals, to coordinate and overhaul all U.S. aid to the tortured nation, to combat "the dangerous forces threatening its independence and security," to keep an eye on what the French are doing, and finally, to determine whether South Viet Nam can be saved at all.

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