Word: cambodia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hinayana countries include Ceylon, Burma, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand. Mahayana countries include China, Japan, Korea, Tibet, Mongolia, Nepal. India, where Buddhism began, now contains only a small number of Buddhists. Most Indians are Hindu...
...four days they faced the delegates of the Free Nations in secret sessions on Indo-China. The Communists' principal line repeated daily was that any settlement must be applied to all three Indo-Chinese states. The West retorted that Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia must be discussed separately...
Recognized Phantoms. When the West broke off in disgust for "a day of grace," the Communists baited the trap a little: Molotov agreed that three separate armistice commissions could be formed. This meant that France would have to accord tacit recognition to the phantom Communist regimes of Laos and Cambodia as members of the armistice commissions, but the hungry French called it progress. The U.S. diagnosis:"This session got nowhere...
...Laos and Cambodia essential to the successful defense of Southeast Asia...
When he could, Bidault stood off the cocky Communists with the only weapon left to him-native wit. When Tep Phan, Foreign Minister of Cambodia, denounced the Viet Minh invasion of his country and produced a telegram reporting the murder of three Cambodians by Viet Minh rebels, Molotov was scathing. "We have heard about this telegram, but we haven't seen it," he declared scornfully. The Cambodian minister waved the telegram aloft. "Now we have seen it, but we still haven't read it," snapped Molotov, to the laughter of the Communist delegations...