Word: dais
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Great Britain had recognized the government of Ho Chi Minh's French-sponsored rival, former Emperor Bao Dai. By refusing to follow the lead of the Western democracies. Tito had given his answer to the Cominform's charge that he is an agent of Western imperialism. Fortnight ago the Yugoslav dictator publicly proclaimed: "We did not bow to the Soviet . . . How could we, then, bow to the West? . . . [Rather than] separate our foreign policy from our socialist principles ... we should prefer to go naked...
...Bangkok last week, Marshal Phibun Songgram's cabinet fretted and worried over Ho Chi Minh. Strongman Songgram urged immediate recognition of Bao Dai, thereby putting Siam firmly in the anti-Communist camp. Foreign Minister Phot Sarasin objected. The time, he said, was not yet ripe to line up openly against Ho Chi Minh. Some 30,000 Indo-Chinese Red guerrillas had taken refuge from the French army just inside the Siamese border. The unwarlike Bangkok government had no defense against a force so potentially dangerous. The cabinet finally agreed not to recognize Bao Dai...
...that the U.S. had advanced beyond the scouting-and-thinking stage in Southeast Asia. No one seemed to talk of action. While U.S. diplomats dallied, the Bangkok government pointedly let it be known that it would not yet follow the U.S.-British lead in recognizing the French-sponsored Bao Dai government in Indo-China. It would be too risky, in view of Communist opposition...
This week, Nehru gave his hat another workout. He announced that India will adopt a "wait and see" attitude toward Communist designs on Indo-China and Tibet. Neither Indo-Chinese regime-that of Communist Ho Chi Minh or French-backed Bao Dai-would be recognized by New Delhi. Then the Prime Minister turned to President Truman's decision to make the hydrogen bomb. "If you have come to the conclusion that the world is a pretty bad show," he said, "then let the hydrogen bomb put an end to it. If you want to carry on the world with...
Item: Malcolm Macdonald, Britain's able commissioner general for South-East Asia, reported that he was hopeful of Communist defeat in French Indo-China. Nehru disagreed. He considered Emperor Bao Dai a French puppet...