Word: indo-china
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...Indo-China (and China), Feb. 6 was the Tet, first day of the Year of the Rabbit, a time for celebration. For months past, Ho Chi Minh's radio has been saying that the Communists would celebrate Tet by marching into Hanoi...
...reality, as well as the appearance, protected Hanoi from Ho. Overhead, French-piloted U.S. B-26s roared into action for the first time in Indo-China, bombing Communist troops and supply dumps. Next day, Communists attacking the French perimeter were "everywhere repulsed...
France: Spending 18.6% for defense, may increase to 29%. Under arms: 697,000 men, 7 divisions; 150,000 of her troops are in Indo-China. Available to NATO: 3 divisions now, 15 by the end of 1952. Equipment: fair, but improving with U.S. help. Morale: uncertain-i.e., poor but could be made good; shot through with Communism, beset by uncertainties of revolving-door government-facts which Premier Pleven (see The Presidency) refuses to recognize publicly; anti-Communism could be solidified...
After two days of friendly conversation, they came to agreement on two major points: i) the U.S. would not pull out of Korea and France would fight on with stepped-up U.S. aid in Indo-China; 2) France would not back-pedal on European defense...
...British troops (10,500 of them Gurkhas) were hunting Communist guerrillas in Malaya. A French Union army of 150,000 (including 20,000 Frenchmen) carried on the fight against the Reds in Indo-China...