Word: delta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communists had made good use of the three weeks. While military committees talked in calculated deadlock, while the West stayed its hand in indecision, the Viet Minh armies had pressed deep into the Red River Delta. The French had abandoned 3,000,000 Vietnamese. The fall of Hanoi, by siege or by default, seemed imminently possible...
...more Vietnamese land to Communism. At last, one top-ranking Vietnamese cried out: "Why should we stay here like puppets while the French give away our country?" Fear in the City. But the giving away went on. The French government deferred sending needed reinforcements to the Red River Delta. British and U.S. consuls advised their nationals to get out of Hanoi, which stands exposed in a corridor some 30 miles wide, more than 50 miles from...
...have already infiltrated the French positions. The Communists have six divisions within 25 miles of Hanoi, and the French are moving stocks of arms and ammunition to the sea. There were reports that France had asked the U.S. and Britain whether they could provide enough shipping to evacuate the Delta garrison...
...French simply pulled back from one-third of the Red River Delta, abandoning 1,600 square miles of densely populated rich rice land. Three Communist Viet Minh divisions leisurely followed up the retreating Frenchmen, exchanging only a few desultory shots with the rearguards. In 72 triumphal hours, the Communists marched into Namdinh (pop. 80,000), the biggest Red prize of the eight-year war; Phuly (pop. 5,000), fortress key to the delta's old southern defense line and Phatdiem (pop. 40,000), heart of a Christian district embracing 570,000 Vietnamese Roman Catholics, fewer than...
...week's end, France's Premier Pierre Mendès-France had only 16 days left. His pledges were still only pledges. In Indo-China, where he had promised to get peace in 30 days, the French abandoned a third of the Red River Delta without a fight. From both sides of the Atlantic, apprehensive allies warned him against any attempt basically to alter EDC. Trouble flared in restive Tunisia and Morocco...