Word: annam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harold Stassen's letter [Aug. 5] proposing a "Fourth Alternative" in Viet Nam is based on two inaccurate observations. He asserts that "historically, the North, known as Tongking, and the South, known as Annam, were separate," and that "the North and South each have a viable economic base...
Viet Nam was a political entity in the 18th century, though plagued by North-South conflict. With the penetration of the French, it was divided into the colonial units of Tongking, Annam and Cochinchina. Today's South Viet Nam consists of most of Annam plus Cochinchina, a fact that has profound political implications because of historical differences between the regions...
...keys to such a policy would be to support the admission of both North Viet Nam and South Viet Nam to the United Nations. Historically, the North, known as Tongking, and the South, known as Annam, were separate. The North and South each have a viable economic base. The North and South each have more resources and larger populations than many of the present members of the United Nations...
...Untouchable), wrote a bitter, anti-French comedy called Le Dragon de Bambou. In 1918 he rented a suit and trotted out to Versailles to badger Woodrow Wilson for the "liberation" of "Viet Nam"-the ancient name for the region that all Frenchmen divided into partes tres: Tonkin China, Annam and Cochin China. His pleas were lost in the shuffle of more immediate history, and he never got to see Wilson. But the farsighted Bolsheviks in Moscow saw promise in the skinny, ardent Annamite...
Viet Nam (land of the south) has long been a magnet for conquerors. First came the Chinese, who drove south in the 2nd century B.C. to grab control for a thousand years, labeling the area Annam (pacified south), exacting tributes of pearls, precious stones, elephant tusks and valuable woods for the Emperor. Cleverly, the Annamese took the best China had to offer?the Chinese classics, the ethics of Confucius, and Mahayana Buddhism. But they fought fiercely and persistently to regain their independence...