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Only then it was the "Red Berets," France's paratroopers, and the white-hatted Foreign Legionnaires who were fighting the Viet Minh. In those days a town called Dong Dang, on the China border, was of particular interest to the French. It was a central supply point for the Viet Minh...
...Dong Dang that the Japanese had begun their invasion of Indochina in 1940. At that time the French government fired off an urgent plea to Washington for help. But President Franklin Roosevelt fired back: "The United States will not go to war for any Ding Dong." An apocryphal story, surely, but one that summed up America's hands-off policy in Indochina for a few more years at least...
...interview with the Moscow weekly "New Times," of November 7. 1970, PRG Ambassador to the USSR Dang Quang Minh said that Nixon's proposals of October 11 of that year...
Nguyen Thi Binh, Viet Cong foreign minister, said the ceasefire called for again Thursday by U.S. negotiator Willilam J. Porter and Saigt.s Pham Dang Lam "does not aim at ending the war, but simply at legalizing the Nguyen Van Thieu administration and the American military presence, while depriving the South Vietnamese people of the legitimate right to self defense...
...government of Viet Nam, and also because it is reluctant to provoke Washington's wrath. Thus came the trade delegation, which will meet with Japanese political leaders, as well as with industrial tycoons. It is officially headed by the chief of the North Viet Nam Chamber of Commerce, Dang Thi. As it happens, though, he is also the principal aide to North Vietnamese Premier Pham Van Dong...