Word: indo-china
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...first official panel discussions of Modern France will be held from 4-6 p.m., July 7, in the Visual Arts Center. M. Duser, counselor of the French Embassy, M. Domenach, editor of Eprit, and Michele Fournier of the Bank of Indo-China and a member of the International Seminar, will participate...
...that the U.S. particularly wants to be in Laos, any more than it wants to be in the rest of what used to be Indo-China. But the vacuum left by the French collapse a decade ago forced the U.S. to assume responsibility for the area. Laos is less important strategically than its Vietnamese neighbor; the country could fall to the Communists without necessarily making the situation in South Viet Nam much worse, while the fall of South Viet Nam inevitably would also mean the fall of Laos. But if the U.S. could deny the implausible little kingdom...
Waiting for Neutralism. Back home, Captain Kong Le was promoted to command of the 1st Parachute Battalion of the Royal Army. But the promotion did little to ease his growing dislike of conditions in Laos. The 1954 Indo-China armistice had handed the Pathet Lao two sections of the country-Sam-nueua and Phongsaly-bordering Communist China and North Viet Nam. The International Control Commission, made up of Polish, Indian and Canadian delegations, was theoretically responsible for keeping any faction from bringing in more troops and arms, but the Pathet Lao ignored the ban; Viet Minh cadres poured across...
...France's policies. De Gaulle would hardly budge from his belief that eventual neutralization of Southeast Asia, with guarantees from Red China, was "the only solution compatible with the peaceful life and progress of the area." France's view is understandably colored by memories of its own defeat in Indo-China. The U.S. does not exclude the possibility that South Viet Nam may be neutralized, but Washington insists that the country must first be made sufficiently strong to protect itself against a Communist takeover. Meanwhile, if France and the U.S. reach no sudden entente, there are hopes at least...
...lies in Charles de Gaulle's proposal for neutralization. Though never spelled out by De Gaulle, this would mean a negotiated peace under auspices of the U.N. or of a renewed Geneva conference, to strengthen by international guarantees the vows made-and since broken-in the original 1954 Indo-China settlement. This possibility is backed by Senators Mike Mansfield, George McGovern and others, who see defeat and humiliation for the U.S. as the only fruits of continued fighting in South Viet...