Word: ho
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nehru's Rubicon, the point where he must finally choose sides." Reason: Nehru was so deeply impressed by the extensive influence of Indian culture in both countries, as well as their real independence from French colonialism, that he decided on diplomatic recognition and personally appealed to Communist Boss Ho Chi Minh in neighboring North Viet Nam not to violate their frontiers...
...Cambodia in World War II, when ex-King Sihanouk was only in his early twenties. Since then, besides being pro-Japanese, Thanh has been pro-French, anti-French, pro-American, anti-American, pro-King and anti-King, but never very antiCommunist. He once dickered with Communism's Ho Chi Minh for armed help in ridding Cambodia of the French. Impatient with what he felt was Sihanouk's excessive tolerance of the French presence, Thanh mounted an armed rebellion against the King three years ago, and might have got somewhere had not King Sihanouk, by dramatically taking "political asylum...
Asia's second most successful Communist intriguer, Ho Chi Minh. flew into Peking to see the No. 1 in his business, Mao Tse-tung. As a special honor, No. 1 himself went down to the airport to greet wisp-whiskered Ho, a gesture Mao had not bestowed on such other arriving VIPs as India's Nehru, Britain's Attlee, the U.N.'s Dag Hammarskjold, or even Russia's Khrushchev and Bulganin. Ho and Mao, according to Peking radio, "embraced with great warmth...
...China's famine was not in evidence at the banquet for Ho given by Premier Chou Enlai, where, according to Radio Peking, there was much "clinking of glasses with those sitting at nearby tables." The Communists also feasted on propaganda. The U.S., charged Chou, is trying to block "peaceful unification of Viet Nam." "These plots," echoed Ho, "gravely threaten peace." Together, they demanded "thorough implementation" of the Geneva Agreements. Under the terms of Geneva, the Communists and the French are supposed to consult together July 20 to work out plans for an all-Viet Nam election next year...
Accordingly, after being feted in Peking, Ho was bound for Moscow. Ho has said that he will negotiate for elections only with the French and not with South Viet Nam's Premier Ngo Din Diem, whose government did not sign the Geneva Agreements. Ho, who fought the seven year Indo-China war in the guise of a local patriot eager to throw out French colonialism, now wants the French around to help him take over South Viet...