Word: dais
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Late for Miracles. Neither the French nor their chosen native instrument, Bao Dai, showed any signs last week of being able to work miracles. Chief of State Bao Dai recently flew to Hanoi, supposedly to bolster the people's morale in the face of an expected Communist offensive. Bao Dai arrived in his C-45, which also carried a Scotty named Bubi, two bottles of King George Scotch, two guitars, three tennis rackets, 16 pieces of miscellaneous baggage and a cute, redheaded airline hostess named Esther. Wearing his inevitable dark glasses and a natty grey flannel suit, Bao Dai...
Reported TIME Correspondent Eric Gibbs: "Bao Dai has great intelligence and charm and the pneumatic resilience of a heavy-duty tire. Some critics seem to assume that all would be well if only Bao Dai looked less like an amiable playboy and made more earnest speeches to rouse the people against Communism. But if Bao Dai were Peter the Hermit himself, I doubt that he could launch such a crusade. The key issue is a matter of principle, not of personality. To any Vietnamese who thinks about anything beyond his paddy field, national independence is the one dominant thought...
...present, China is actively supporting the Viet Minh rebel forces with men and weapons, so that the French are waging a losing war to maintain the unpopular Bao Dai regime...
...TIME file, consisting of our U.S. editions only, was complete through the middle of August. It was well-thumbed. On a desk in the room lay a copy of the May 29 issue with IndoChina's Bao Dai, emperor of Vietnam, on the cover. Near it was a copy of the Aug. 7 Pacific* edition (Formosa's Governor K. C. Wu on the cover) stamped "U.S. Diplomatic Service...
...stunned France. Said Paris-Presse: "Everybody, from our cabinet ministers down to the man in the street, realizes now that the massacre of Caobang is the outcome of five years of neglect, hesitations, intrigues and balmy optimism." There were caustic remarks about Viet Nam's Emperor Bao Dai living with his family at the Cháteau de Thorenc above Cannes. Minister of State Jean Letourneau, in charge of Indo-Chinese affairs, on coming out of a cabinet meeting, tried to calm the excitement. Said he: "The French high command has got the situation in hand . . . There is absolutely...