Word: dais
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...luncheon guest-the leader of a group of Indo-Chinese Nationalist intellectuals who are still undecided about supporting French-sponsored Emperor Bao Dai-smiled down at the kids in the street. "Like most peoples of Asia," he said, "we are chronic gamblers. Except," he added thoughtfully, "in politics, where we like a sure thing...
...senses the bonds which tie Lake Success to the Korean battlefront. The blue and white U.N. flag flies from General Douglas MacArthur's headquarters in Tokyo's Dai Ichi building; it flies also, with Korean and U.S. flags, in embattled South Korea. MacArthur carries on a cordial correspondence with U.N.'s Secretary General Trygve Lie, has periodic talks with Lie's personal representative, Colonel Alfred G. Katzin of South Africa, and on his last flying visit to Korea, called on U.N.'s Korean Commission in Pusan (which maintains telephone contact with Lake Success...
...Viet Nam side, Bao Dai's timid government has put some muscle into its administration. This week two strong men with contrasting backgrounds-one has worked with the Communists, the other always against them-were filling new jobs. But both brought the same message: the Communists, they said, were very tough people, and to beat them one had to be tougher still...
...decided to escape when the U.S. recognized Bao Dai. You don't realize how important that was for us. I have always been a nationalist, never a Communist. Until the Americans recognized the Emperor, I was not convinced that Viet Nam was really going to be independent. Many others would like to escape. But even important functionaries may not travel without a special permit. Only my ministerial rank allowed me to make a wide tour of inspection in northern Tonkin. I managed to get to the village where I was born, hid out there, and surrendered when a French...
...Communist propaganda sneers at Bao Dai's phantom government, but nothing could be more phantomlike than Ho Chi Minh's cabinet. When we were not in session, no two cabinet ministers were allowed to be within 30 miles of each other. Cabinet meetings were held once a month, in different places in the mountains. It was quite usual for a minister to bicycle 60 miles to a meeting...