ABSTRACT
The Central Committee of the Lao Dong Party held its 7th Plenum from March 3-12, 1955. Communist military forces remained in only one area of the south, the Binh Dinh and Quang Ngai regroupment zone. In January, a National Congress of the Lien Viet Front was convened in Hanoi. The most significant portion of Dong's report was his analysis of developments in the north. Dong stressed several times that the mobilisation of the masses for the reduction of land rent and the application of the agrarian reform was considered the foundation of all reconstruction policy. General Giap addressed himself to a review of the implementation of the Geneva Agreements over the previous eight months, and to the likely developments in the future. The issue of elections in Vietnam was also raised by India. The political situation in Saigon was equally chaotic in late April-early May as pro- and anti-Bao Dai forces clashed head on.
