Word: indo-china
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Turning to Indo-China, Nixon, neatly pinning on the Communists the dirty word "colonialism," said: "The U.S. supports the Associated States of Indo-China in their understandable aspiration for independence, but we know that [if] the French leave Indo-China . . . the forces of Communist colonialism . . . would enslave them...
...chill mists of the crachin season crept past the French forts of the Red River delta, elements of two Viet Minh divisions, some 20,000 strong, slipped away to the southwest; they swerved unopposed across Indo-China's wooded mountain spine, then invaded the "associated state" of Laos in its southern, least strongly defended sector (see map). The Communists fell by night upon a French-Laotian company near the border and cut it quickly to pieces. Then the invaders headed west through scraggy hillsides towards the Mekong, using footpath trails to bypass the French defense posts along the main...
...Asia have been subjected to stereotyped peace rallies. Moscow, Peking and Ho have said the war could be ended by negotiation. French Premier Laniel is on record that "the French government does not consider the Indo-Chinese problem as a matter which must necessarily be settled militarily." But Ho is demanding that France 1) recognize his government and get out of Indo-China, 2) exclude Bao Dai's Vietnamese nationalists from the peace talks, 3) make the first formal move to sue for peace. All this, coupled with the challenge of the Mekong offensive, adds up to one inescapable...
Empire Troubles. Asia, with its short-fused peace in Korea, its seemingly unwinnable war in Indo-China, and its tendency to fear a dying colonialism more than an expansive Communism, remained the hot battlefield of the cold war. Appropriately, it had not one Man of the Year but three-men diverse in almost every respect: Jawaharlal Nehru, the exasperating high priest of neutralism; Ramon Magsaysay, the young and dynamic, U.S.-loving man of action who became President of the Philippines; wrinkled old Syngman Rhee of Korea, the angry ally of the West. Syngman Rhee's intractability towards his allies...
Last week Nguyen Van Tam resigned as Premier of Viet Nam, biggest and most important of the three Associated States of Indo-China. In the strange tangle of intrigue and paradox that is Vietnamese internal politics, Tam, once an ardently pro-French pet of the French, had lost out in a struggle for power with wily Chief of State...