Gangrene of Vietnam.

There have been some excellent first-hand reports on Vietnam in the American press, but even in many of these one has the impression that, to their authors, Vietnam is still part of the proverbial inscrutable East unless it is a particularly virulent outpost of world communism. Robert Guillain, who knows Vietnam inside out, has just spent several weeks there and has published a series of four long articles in Le Monde under a general title that carries a significant Algerian echo, "Gangrene of Vietnam." One of the recurring themes of his detailed report is the psychological gulf between the Americans in Vietnam and the Asiatics.