Word: dais
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Belatedly, the French looked around for more reliable nationalist support. They finally picked on Bao Dai, 40, a fun-loving descendant of the ancient Annamite emperors, who had collaborated with the Japanese, and later with Ho Chi Minh. In 1948, the French asked Bao Dai to return to Indo-China as chief of state for Viet Nam. In March 1949, the French gave Bao Dai's state "independence within the framework of the French Union." In April, Bao Dai landed in Indo-China. "I risk my skin," said he, justifiably, for he got but little support. "COMMUNISM No-COLONIALISM...
...China's triumphant Mao Tse-tung reached the IndoChina border, and started ferrying up to 3,000 tons of supplies a month to Comrade Ho. In January 1950, Moscow and Peking recognized Ho Chi Minh's "Democratic Republic." In February 1950, the U.S. recognized Bao Dai's state, and 37 of its allies followed suit. In June 1950, the U.S. sent its first shipment of arms. When the Communists struck in Korea. President Truman sent military advisers to Saigon. The world issue was joined...
...tons of concrete-some 10,000 forts, emplacements and bunkers up and down Indo-China. The Communists could not get at him. but neither could he get at the Communists. In May 1953, General Henri-Eugene Navarre took over. His plan: increase Bao Dai's army from 200,000 to 500,000 so it could watch the quiet areas while he, Navarre, went after the Communists with his striking force. "Victory is a woman," said Navarre. "She does not give herself except to those who know how to take her." But if Navarre knew how, the French Cabinet back...
...share in the government, he would soon have all of Indo-China. The U.S. cannot confidently urge free elections in Viet Nam as it did in Korea, for it is not certain whom the Vietnamese would choose if confronted with a choice between Ho and Chief of State Bao Dai...
...ended by negotiation. French Premier Laniel is on record that "the French government does not consider the Indo-Chinese problem as a matter which must necessarily be settled militarily." But Ho is demanding that France 1) recognize his government and get out of Indo-China, 2) exclude Bao Dai's Vietnamese nationalists from the peace talks, 3) make the first formal move to sue for peace. All this, coupled with the challenge of the Mekong offensive, adds up to one inescapable conclusion: Ho's price is too high...