Word: indo-china
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When General Paul Ely recently assumed command in Indo-China, TIME Correspondent John Mecklin flew down from Hanoi to Saigon to cover his arrival. As the newsfronts keep shifting in this hot war, Mecklin moves with them. His beat has taken him into the Red River Delta, eastward to the South China Sea, westward into the remote villages of Laos. He has traveled by cyclo (a kind of bicycle wheelchair), by jeep, C-47-and on foot...
...government of Millionaire Joseph Laniel had survived two Indo-China debates (the last by only two votes). The opposition insisted on a third debate...
Laniel tried to head it off by asking the National Assembly simply to "note," not even approve, his government's Indo-China war policy and let the matter...
There was increasing turmoil over the long-postponed EDC decision. Russia's Molotov brought matters to a boil by ruthlessly dismissing the idea that there was a way to negotiate an honorable peace in Indo-China...
...whether in the uncertain sky of Lake Geneva a healthy wind will blow away the clouds ..." Then from the Radical Socialist benches came the voice of ambitious Economist Pierre Mendès-France, most outspoken advocate of the theory that France is "militarily overextended" and must get out of Indo-China. "We are not Americans," said he. "We cannot see the world with their eyes ... It is possible to end the disorder immediately, but it is not this government that can do it." Just Short of a Year. As a maneuver to head off the inevitable, Bidault's Cath...