Word: indo-china
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...Indian and a cobra, strangle the Indian first," the saying goes in Indo-China. Javanese peasants say, "When you meet a snake and a slit-eye [Chinese], first kill the slit-eye, then the snake." Among Punjabis the proverb is, "If you spy a serpent and a Sindhi, get the Sindhi first...
...Moscow, which sent its ambassador to France a memorandum for delivery to Charles de Gaulle. Its gist: Russia, France, and all other peace-loving nations who were signatories to the 1954 Geneva pact that split up French Indo-China, should sit down at a table, neutralize South Viet Nam, and require the U.S. to depart the premises. The idea was right in line with De Gaulle's own thinking, and his government promptly agreed to support such a conference...
...stable and competent. With some success Burma has managed to steer a perilous neutral course between the West and China, having been helped greatly by the fact that the British withdrew in relatively good order rather than at the end of a disastrous war as the French did in Indo-China...
...Lyndon Johnson's blood. Back in Moscow after his eleven-day swing through Asia, So viet Premier Aleksei Kosygin at least partly echoed the Peking line; he promised "appropriate" military aid to the North Vietnamese, and his propaganda machine threatened dire consequences unless "American imperialism" withdraws from Indo-China. On the surface at least, the divided Communist giants were closing ranks...
...WITHDRAWAL from South Viet Nam would of course leave all of mainland Indo-China within Peking's reach. The U.S. might fall back on Thailand and still make quite a stand there, together with the plucky Thais and backed by U.S. offshore power. But this would depend on Thailand's willingness to bet its existence on U.S. determination and skill. After a U.S. retreat from South Viet Nam, not many would care to make such a bet. In short, withdrawal would largely destroy American credibility as a reliable anti-Communist ally-in Bangkok, in Seoul, in Manila...