Word: bao-dai
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...Indo-China, Miss Mintz said we are not completely up against a wall. We have to back neither the Communist Ho Chih-Mihn nor the imperialistic French and Bao-Dai. We can get tough with France, insist it set up a real government with popular support, not a puppet one universally disliked, staff the army with indo-Chinese, not Frenchmen, and let the country develop along national lines...
...colonized by the French in 1860. Its bid for home rule dates from Skirmishes in the 70's to the wholesale revolt which began after World War II and which still goes on. France's cure for the Viet Namese problems is a semi-autonomous government headed by Emperor Bao-Dai, native monarch who had considerable pre-war support. But under the past which put Bao-Dai, in office last year, France retains control over Viet Nam's foreign policy and of the Viet Namese army in war-time; France keeps military bases and economics privileges which were bludgeoned...
...economic assistance, on which the Acheson-Bidault-Schuman talks will focus, can combat Viet Namese Communism only if dollars will follow new freedoms granted the Bao-Dai regime by the French government. Though French troops are needed to hold off the immediate threat of Communist rule, and end of French curbs on the Bao-Dai regime can win nationalist support from Viet Minh to the present government...
...Paris, Acheson should set new freedoms--in foreign policy, native economy, and government appointments--as conditions for U. S. aid to Viet Nam. Though a more independent Bao-Dai is no guarantee of a Viet Nam safe from Communist conquest, such independence is the best chance that France and the U. S. have to promote democracy in Indo-China. Without this autonomy, Viet Nam, Even with U. S. assistance, will remain easy prey for Indo-China's Communists...
...King Bao-Dai of Annam, one of the states which make up French Indo-China, assured France that he and his subjects had "profound attachment and indefectible devotion to the great protector nation...