Word: dienbienphu
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...skeleton-men were 63 French, 27 Foreign Legion and ten Vietnamese survivors of Dienbienphu who were being repatriated under the recent French-Viet Minh agreement. The stories they told were not calculated to increase good will towards the Communist Viet Minh at a moment when the French were trying to conclude peace. The French put on two relays of censors at Hanoi and Saigon to lessen the impact of the last march from Dienbienphu...
Word sifted through the Bamboo Curtain that France's General Christian de Castries, gallant loser of the siege of Dienbienphu, was being "well treated" in a Viet Minh prison camp...
...Communists last week added 3,000,000 Indo-Chinese to the 800 million people whose destinies they already control. It happened swiftly, and so bloodlessly that the rest of the world hardly noticed. Yet it was a bigger Communist victory than Dienbienphu...
...triumphal swing around Asia. Thousands of well-organized Chinese flourished pictures of Mao Tse-tung, chanted Communist slogans and scattered rose petals as Chou drove into town from the airport. But fewer than 500 Burmese bothered to line the street, and it seemed that Rangoon, 1,100 miles nearer Dienbienphu than India's New Delhi, was not quite so enthusiastic about its Red China visitor...
...Three Air Force and two Army technicians went swimming last week at an off-limits beach near their base at Tourane, 375 miles northeast of Saigon, and never came back. Presumably they were captured ,by the Communists. Previous U.S. casualties in Indo-China: two civilian pilots shot down over Dienbienphu (TIME...