Word: indo-china
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...From Red China down to south IndoChina this year have gone 3,000 Chinese military instructors, 3,000 tons of military equipment and quantities of salable opium. Up from south Indo-China have gone 35,000 tons of rice, 5,000 tons of salt and 30,000 trained replacements for the Viet Minh Communist army. The artery for this traffic was Route Coloniale No. 12, which passes through Hoa Binh, 32 miles southwest of Hanoi...
...Germany's troops would be part of this international army, but France proposes to keep out six of her own divisions, principally for use in Indo-China. Each division will be composed of officers and men from one nation only. Internationalism will begin at the corps level. Running the whole show will be a European army headquarters, responsible to Dwight Eisenhower's SHAPE staff on the same level as NATO's separate British and American army components. European divisions will number only 13,000 men, instead of 18,000 as in a U.S. division. This satisfies...
...French Commissioner was to bring the picturesque kingdom* of elephants, sapphires, Siamese dancers and golden temple spires into closer friendship with its old master, France. A pleasant, warm, courageous man with a tiny grey mustache, he had spent 22 of his 44 years in Indo-China...
...Indo-China, like all Gaul, is divided into three parts: Viet Nam, Cambodia and Laos. Cambodia, the smallest, is about the size of Oklahoma...
...Natarajian, editor of the Bombay Herald, said here yesterday that "there is genuine anxiety in my country as to whether the West is backing the wrong political horses." He added that Indians think some U.S. backed rulers like Synghman Rhee and Indo-China's Bao Dai are "the scum of Asia...