Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Many guerrilla chieftains seemed suspicious of the British offer. "We fear there is a wildcat in the bag," said one whom China interviewed. But at week's end, ten favorable replies had been received, and there were two important surrenders: "General Tanganyika," China's former second in command, and "General Katanga." Field Marshal Russia also replied-but in a taunting letter sent not to General China but to British District Officer John Candler. "Soon you die," the note said. Shortly afterwards, Candler drove into the forest and ran smack into Russia's ambush. His body was buried...
...well understood by General Henri Navarre and his hardheaded lieutenants in the war theater. They hold that the best outcome of Geneva would be an agreement by Red China to stop supplying the Viet Minh. Then, they say, "Ho Chi Minh would wither on the vine, like the guerrilla leader Markos in Greece." But what price would the Moscow-Peking axis exact for such a boon? If the enemy offered it at all, the price would be high. To which Paris replies, hopefully, that they detect an "appetite for negotiations" and signs of inner tiredness among the Viet Minh...
Would Navarre care to predict victory next year? The answer: No, but in 1955 "I am confident we shall be able to drive the enemy out of all the zones that are vital for the maintenance of his battle corps" (presumably meaning that the Communists will still be a guerrilla problem, as in Malaya, but confinable...
...thought that Taruc had ceased to be a Communist or had seen the light about democracy; rather, Communist strategy now was to abandon guerrilla warfare in favor of political infiltration. Taruc's field commanders got down to cases with a team of army negotiators at Mount Banahaw, 40 miles south of Manila. They offered to deposit their arms in mountain hideouts guarded by their own men, and to surrender the arms after they were convinced of the government's sincerity. In return, they asked a general amnesty and presidential clemency for Huks convicted of crimes. Army Chief...
...Acheson, corrupted by the Red slime of a White." Joe worked hard to make his audiences (mostly middle-aged and middle-class), local newspapers and local politicos completely McCarthy-conscious. He rarely mentioned the President, and he ignored the Administration's accomplishments, but carried on his guerrilla campaign to get the Administration to cut off all aid to allies trading with Red China. "The question to be determined in this fall's election is," said he, "whether we are going to use American dollars indirectly to finance the blood trade...