Word: indo-china
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...keystone of Western defense plans for Europe is the European Defense Community and its formula for arming West Germany. At the Berlin Conference last February the U.S. thought it had made a bargain with the French: the U.S. would assent to French negotiations on Indo-China at Geneva if the National Assembly would consider EDC before Geneva began. Last week when EDC finally turned up on the calendar of the National Assembly's steering committee, it was hastily postponed even by its friends. Reason: it would be hazardous to put EDC to a vote until Geneva is over...
...against the delta before or during the summer rains: he had taken bitter losses at Dienbienphu and might need more time to recover. But the French generals knew Giap and feared that he would exploit the stalemate at Geneva by grabbing fast, even with weakened forces, for all of Indo-China...
Lieut. Genevieve de Galard Terraube, 29, -not four months in Indo-China, not yet one year out of nursing school-waved happily in the turmoil, then laughed. After 41 days of battle and 18 days of Red captivity, she was back from Dienbienphu...
France has been just as slow in making way for nationalist aspirations in Morocco as it once was in Indo-China, with results that eventually may be just as bad. For the past nine months, as a French resident put it recently, "Morocco has been living in an acute state of siege." Others called the ironhanded regime of the Resident General, Old Soldier Augustin Guillaume, a "police state," and even saw a prospect of civil...
...Arafa. But they have had plenty of trouble with Istiqlal nationalists, who scorn the new Sultan as a stooge. Since last August, the poorly organized nationalists, armed with smuggled hand grenades, homemade bombs, pistols and machine guns, have killed 101 persons, wounded 189 more. France's reverses in Indo-China have given the insurgents new heart. Recently, they circulated clandestine letters saying that "Casablanca will be another Dienbienphu." Help from the Hills. In retaliation for the terror, Guillaume's police jailed a thousand suspects, of whom 300 still await trial. Day after day his gendarmes roamed the cities...