Word: bamboos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that hold back the Reds from all of Indo-China and Siam. Every couple of miles they passed small forts which, except for being brick, looked like something out of American frontier days. Troops had made up for the shortage of barbed wire by slanting up rows of sharpened bamboo sticks-which are quite effective until someone puts a match to them...
...Lattre's men drove into the hills north of Haiphong. A TIME correspondent accompanying the French reported: "The task force followed a narrow Viet Minh track where the jungle crowds in from all sides. The men crossed numberless ravines on thin bamboo strands. On a better road a mile to the south, a column with mules transporting French 755 provided artillery support, while the French light cruiser Duguay-Tronin also zeroed in on Viet Minh positions. On the second day, Viet Minh opened machine-gun fire, but when Moroccan troops began closing in, they fled leaving behind no dead...
After 18 years of invasion and revolution and a year of Communist domination, there are still an estimated 1,000 Protestant and 5,000 Roman Catholic foreign missionary workers in China. But now that the Communist government has rung down the Bamboo Curtain on U.S. activities in China (TIME, Jan. 8), many of the sowers must leave the seed to grow or wither without their care...
...Bamboo Curtain fell harshly last week on a century of American good works in China. Red China's Vice Chairman of the State Administration Council Kuo Mojo charged: ". . . American imperialism has, over a long period, placed special emphasis on ... cultural aggression in China...
Commuting Comfort. Across the bridge barefoot people in tall conical hats come pat-patting with heavy bundles and baskets slung from bamboo poles. They are on their way to work. Each Chinese commuter carries a special pass issued by the French Súreté. One side is printed in French, signed by a French official; the other side is printed in Chinese for the convenience of Tonghing's Communist police...