Word: indo-china
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...Minh did not go all the way to Versailles to badger the Allies. He went as a calm young patriot who wanted to point out to the Big Four the importance of understanding what was going on in Indo-China. They wouldn't even see him. He turned the other way only because they pushed...
...with its "party spouses" and anticapitalist polemics, Ho set out for China under the name of Nguyen Ai Quoc (roughly, "Smith the Patriot"), as agitator and translator for Stalin's agent Mikhail Borodin. Their mission: to penetrate the Kuomintang and train Communist can bo (cadres) to infiltrate French Indo-China. At Canton's Whampoa Military Academy, Ho demonstrated his skills as a disciplinarian. Any student-agitator who failed to show sufficient diligence was promptly betrayed to the French when he infiltrated Viet Nam. Most of Ho's pupils quickly learned to do their homework, but teacher...
...French Army in Indo-China found many such mutilated men, women and children. People were tortured with such unbelievable cruelty that it required pictures taken by a war-crime-investigation team to prove the accuracy of reports, the authenticity of which we refused to believe. The refinement of the atrocities by Ho Chi Minh's men upon our countrymen will never be forgotten by anyone who ever served in Indo-China...
...advertisement, the faculty members specifically charged the United States with violating the 1954 Geneva agreement over Indo-China. They asserted that it is the government, and not faculty critics, that disregards the "plain facts" of the Vietnam...
...VIET NAM, LAOS AND CAMBODIA, the former states of Indo-China, would be locked in a vicious cycle of nationalistic enmity even if Communist aggression disappeared overnight. Vietnamese armies have harried Laos for centuries, earning the Laotians' hate and dread. North and South Vietnamese alike look down on Cambodia, which they helped France rule. Cambodia's dyspeptic Prince Sihanouk snubs Laos, hates neighboring Thailand (a Thai premier once called him publicly "a pig"), and gibes disdainfully that "all Vietnamese are married to women with black teeth...