Word: dais
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, in an office down the hall from MacArthur's own in Tokyo's Dai Ichi building, pince-nezed Frank Lowe squiggled the last line of another long, hand-written report to the White House, locked up a couple of presidential letters, and flew off to visit the ist Marine Division in southern Korea. Nobody questioned his comings & goings: the two-star general was armed with a presidential letter that authorized him to go where he chose, read what he wanted, and report what he pleased (although he had no command authority...
TIME Correspondent Eric Gibbs visited a little-known part of Indo-China which is ruled neither by France nor Bao Dai nor Communist Ho Chi Minh. Gibbs's report...
...only an expedient. I realized from the first that he was Communist, but I used to tell him if you are a nationalist I am for you and your government, but if you are a Communist I am against you." Le Huu Tu has declared allegiance to Bao Dai's government, but in practice he operates as an independent sovereign...
...genuinely moved and excited in welcoming him back. Some knelt by the roadside. Mothers held out their bare-bottomed babies for the bishop's blessing. Little boys & girls ran screaming, laughing, cheering beside the battered old episcopal car. In Hanoi, I have seen frozen-faced people watch Bao Dai pass by. This was very different...
...Real Independence. At Hanoi last week, Bao Dai colorlessly delivered a colorless speech stressing independence and announcing the formation of three new Vietnamese divisions. Meanwhile, the French and the Vietnamese, after months of haggling, had reached an agreement that as of January 1951 the Vietnamese would run their own treasury and their own customs service. But the French still lacked the will or the imagination to grant the Vietnamese anything that looked to them like real independence...