Word: dais
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Surely there must be something fundamentally wrong with a policy that has led to the reversal of all the hopes of 1945 and to alliances with men (Chiang, Bao Dai, Syngman Rhee, Franco) who are essentially antagonistic to traditional American and British ideas of freedom and progress...
...first alternative is acceptable only if the U.S. puts up the money, and indications are that the U.S. may not. The second alternative, favored by Chief of State Bao Dai, now in Paris, will require time and a generous assignment of French officers to train the Vietnamese soldiers-something the French, whose officer cadres are already much depleted, are reluctant to do. The third alternative is vigorously opposed by non-Communist Indo-Chinese, who fear that Red flags will be flying in Hanoi and Saigon within hours of a political armistice. The non-Communist Indo-Chinese have their own plan...
City Editor Al Reck of the Oakland Tribune (circ. 182,876), who likes nothing better than to beat the San Francisco dai lies across the bay, thought he must be having a pipe dream. State Narcotics Agent Fred Braumoeller had walked into the city room and promised him a beat on a hot story in return for the services of a Tribune photographer...
...Democratic Party's globe-trotting standardbearer, Adlai Stevenson, arrived in Saigon for a six-day visit through Indo-China, including a three-hour luncheon conference with Vietnamese Chief of State Bao Dai. Later, at a luncheon in Phat Diem, south of Hanoi, Stevenson found a gambit for his humor in the tablecloth, decorated with an elephant. His host, Catholic Bishop Le Huu Tu, quickly explained: the elephant on the tablecloth was a native beast, no relation to the Republican species...
...signs point to "a very violent Viet Minh push in Laos soon," the Communists apparently having given up for now their hope of driving the French out of the Hanoi delta. Clark also had a 25-minute chat and a few sips of dry champagne with Emperor Bao Dai. The general made a hit by remarking: "The French here are making really efficient use of arms we deliver to them, and surely don't need to be stuffed with advice on how to use them...