Word: indo-china
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...coming battle may be decisive. If Nasan should be overwhelmed, the French would be bottled up in the Hanoi delta, and there would be little to stop the Communists' sweeping down the entire length of Indo-China...
...broke out, a Columbia executive sighed for a Korean film. "How would you like A Yank in Korea?" asked Sam. "Great!" replied the executive. Six weeks and two days later, A Yank in Korea (a remake of A Yank in the R.A.F. and predecessor of A Yank in Indo-China) was ready for distribution...
...Indo-China one day last week, 2nd Lieut. Francis Marion, armored cavalryman of the Moroccan Spahis, was rolling along Route Coloniale 11 in his tank, far in advance of his column. "Return at once," ordered his superior officer by the radio. "Give me five minutes more," said Marion. In that five minutes the young French reservist uncovered a Communist arms dump: 200 tons of American, Chinese, Japanese, Czech and French weapons, including 1,000 rifles, 60 submachine guns, 22 machine guns, 51 bazookas, 114 mortars, and three Russian-made trucks...
...withdrawing before French counterattacks. His name: General Vo Nguyen Giap (pronounced Yap). Since the husky voice of Communist Leader Ho Chi Minh disappeared from the Viet Minh propaganda radio two years ago, the French have come more & more to believe that Giap is their chief antagonist in Indo-China...
Death Means Nothing. World War II brought a Japanese occupation to Indo-China, but left the (Vichy) French with a few threads of authority. Under the name of Comrade Van, Giap became Ho Chi Minh's right-hand man and organized a Communist underground army of liberation (i.e., liberation from both Japanese and French). In Hanoi, the French threw his wife into jail, with a sentence of 15 years, and there she died. When Giap led his "liberation" troops into the valley of Dinh Ca in 1944, his merciless liquidation of government officials and wealthy farmers gave cruel force...