Word: indo-china
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...wooden guns and wait for something to happen. They are Nationalist China's "forgotten army," the survivors of a once-beaten mass which was pushed out of Yunnan Province in the final days of the Chinese Communist victory, and made its way through rough mountain country into French Indo-China. There, three years ago, they were disarmed and interned by the French...
Their leader is Lieut. General Peng Tso-hsi, a slight, near-bald man of 51, who commanded the Nationalist Twenty-Sixth Army until the Red victory, then crossed with what was left of his troops into Indo-China...
...Foreign Legion who get a bounty of 30 marks ($7) a head for every man they enlist. According to the opposition German Social Democratic Party, which put up the posters, more than 90,000 young Germans, the equivalent of seven divisions, have enlisted in the legion for service in Indo-China, and 10,000 have lost their lives. "Absurd," answered the French...
...They are still flying. France's Aigle Azur airline is using them in Indo-China...
Dulles set forth two broad principles upon which the Eisenhower Administration's foreign policy is based. The first: "We will not try to meet the Soviet strategy of encirclement by ourselves starting a war." The Administration, he added, wall also do its best to end the wars in Indo-China and Korea, which are continuing "because the enemy thinks he's getting an advantage by continuing...