Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What can be negotiated in Indo-China? In the U.S. view, little except an abject surrender to the Communists. The country cannot be divided, like Korea, for the Viet Minh forces cannot be shut off by a tourniquet: they are in the blood stream. Moreover, the French hold the two important rice deltas, but the Hanoi delta is in the north and the Mekong delta is in the south, and the French could not give up Hanoi, as they must in any north-south division...
...this is 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...
...grandsons Christopher, 15, and Evanghelos, I, her granddaughters Dimitra, Maria and Spiridoula−were driven across the mountains for five days and most of four nights. For close to a year they were herded from camp to camp, between Albania and Yugoslavia. At last they were thrown into the hold of a Russian freighter. "Like so many animals." said Alexandra Moschou...
...Live at Peace. Once when the freighter tied up at a wharf at one port, young Christopher managed to steal a look out of the fetid hold. The ship was in a British harbor, but no Britons were permitted aboard to see the human cargo she was carrying. In the face of the Communist guards, the Greek prisoners kept quiet. Soon afterward the freighter tied up at a Polish port, and the human cattle were transferred from its hold to sealed railway boxcars. Dragged, pushed and prodded from town to town over many months, the Moschou family were finally settled...
Help the Neighbors. The Latin Americans are far more excited about economic issues−i.e., what they can get out of the U.S. They want assurances that the U.S. will grant more loans and technical aid. quit complaining about high coffee prices, promise to hold down tariffs, give them some sort of parity price program for their raw materials. Some U.S gesture−an announcement, for instance, that the U.S. Export-Import Bank would reconsider the decision against making further Latin American development loans−may be necessary in this atmosphere if Dulles is to win support for his anti...