Word: indo-china
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With the glimmer of a Korean truce in the ofling, the Administration could walk into public acclaim and out of world leadership by turning its back on Asia. But in the new Dulles plan to send arms to Indo-China and earmark some of our French funds for use in that war, the free world can find assurance that the United States is not going to pack its bag and get out of Asia as soon as the truce is settled...
...sharp attack near Monghsat, Burmese troops found the bodies of white men, whom Burmese newspapers hastily named as Americans, but Washington said no U.S. passports had ever been issued in their names, suggested that the men may have been German deserters from the French Foreign Legion in neighboring Indo-China. The U.S. denied again, as it has before, any responsibility for Li Mi's operations. But the National Salvation Army was beginning to be embarrassing to all concerned. Burma, in a curtly polite note, thanked the U.S. for its $31 million aid program and declined to accept further...
...Democratic Party's globe-trotting standardbearer, Adlai Stevenson, arrived in Saigon for a six-day visit through Indo-China, including a three-hour luncheon conference with Vietnamese Chief of State Bao Dai. Later, at a luncheon in Phat Diem, south of Hanoi, Stevenson found a gambit for his humor in the tablecloth, decorated with an elephant. His host, Catholic Bishop Le Huu Tu, quickly explained: the elephant on the tablecloth was a native beast, no relation to the Republican species...
...opinion the only form of resistance which any morally responsible person can use against the forces he must fight." He continued, "I not only condemn the policies of Malan South Africa and of all colonial powers--of Britain in Malaya and South Africa, of France in Indo-China and Morocco--but I also say that besides being stupid they are singular by hopeless. They are going against invincible trends of history. These countries, after a few centuries of slumber are reawakening, and although Malan and others may slow them down, there is no one on earth who can stop them...
...French were pleased to learn that the U.S. would consider increased assistance in Indo-China. The details were left to future conference, but the French hoped for American Indo-China aid of $800 million a year. In return, they would promise a planned effort to end the war in Indo-China in two years, probably backed with an offer to forgo any but military aid in continental France after 1953. The French learned also that the U.S. would not be bound by an armistice in Korea if the Chinese Communists took advantage of it to invade Indo-China. Said...