Land Reform Slow Starting in South Viet Nam
Premier Ngo Dinh Diem faces slow land reform as U S expert Wolf Ladejinsky warns the program requires countryside security and farmer confidence first. Rentals vary by soil with 12 percent landlord add ons, contracts run three to five years. Refuges and veterans eyed for resettlement on private or government lands. Communist influence remains strong. tenants cautious, some await a 1956 election.