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...Chinese, as well as the allied forces, seemed to be pinned down in Korea. Since they intervened, their program of aggression and expansion in Asia had gained nothing. They failed to follow up their feint in Tibet; they stood idly by while Ho Chi Minh's Communists in Indo-China and the Communist-led Huks in the Philippines got their ears pinned back; Burma, Siam, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Formosa and Japan are as intact as they were last November...
...world's greatest rivers is the Mekong, which rises in Tibet and flows* 2,800 miles to the sea at the southeastern corner of Indo-China. The Mekong delta is a 100-mile-long wedge of swampland, rice fields, palm trees and mangroves, called the Cis Bassac. "The Devil does not want for water here," say the French who use the Cis Bassac as a base for operations against Communist guerrillas infesting the thick Foret Inondee to the west and the marshes of the Plaine des Jones to the east. Fifteen times in the last year the French have...
...river came the French, tired, covered to their necks in mud, their dead wrapped in mattings, their wounded in slings or limping on canes. They had killed 88 Communists, captured 25. Colonel Lehagre smiled quizzically. Said he: "In another 18 months the war will be over in southern Indo-China. But right now, I think they are gathering again right over here." He pointed to a spot on a map. "And when they do, we will go out after them again and again and again...
Rubber has skyrocketed Singapore's prosperity. A record 703,891 long tons were produced in Malaya last year, another 448,989 long tons-imported from Indonesia, Siam and Indo-China for processing in Singapore plants. At the beginning of 1950, rubber was selling for a little over 17? a pound. Then the price began to rise furiously, hit a high around 80/ a pound. The buyers: U.S.A. (35% of Malayan production), Britain, Europe, Red China (up 600% from 1949) the Soviet Union and European satellites (up 28% from...
...Special agents, bandits of America and Chiang Kaishek, have emerged openly from their underground hiding places . . . They are plundering openly, assassinating party cadres . . . even revolting in many places." He cited an impressive example: 3,000 Communist government agents had been killed recently in Kwangsi Province, near the border of Indo-China...