Word: indo-china
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Premier Pleven answered: Northern Indo-China will be defended as it has always been. By 353 to 215, the National Assembly voted to keep the French forces in Indo-China...
...army began to take form. After four days of high-level haggling in Washington, France and the U.S. reached agreement on what the French would get in U.S. arms and money during the coming year. No specific overall figure was set down, but the understanding is that France (plus Indo-China) will receive between 30% and 40% of the $6 billion appropriated for MDAP...
...Chinese army had brought about the fall of a French government. Then it was Premier Jules ("Le Tonkinois") Ferry under attack by fiery Georges Clémenceau. Last week no Clémenceaus were on hand to upset the cabinet of Premier René Pleven. Yet debate over Indo-China at Paris was bitter. Rightist Deputy Edmond Michelet assailed "successive governments" for "an incoherent policy ... As late as Oct. 7 we were told that the Viet Minh forces could not launch a general offensive." Radical Deputy Pierre Mendès-France warned: "If we want...
With Communist pressure rising in neighboring Indo-China U.S. and Siamese officials at Bangkok last week ended three months of negotiations and signed a military assistance pact. Under the terms of the agreement, the U.S. will provide Siam's poorly equipped 50,000-man army with $10 million worth of modern weapons and transport. It will also dispatch officers and technicians to help train the Siamese in the use of the new arms and equipment. Sample instruction : the care and operation of the jeep...
...General Alphonse Juin and Minister for Indo-China Jean Letourneau landed at Hanoi's Gialam airfield after the long flight from Paris, a welcoming band struck up the Marseillaise and the Thanly-Nien Hanh Khuc (the Vietnamese anthem, March of Youth). Then the two Frenchmen hurried away from martial music to study the martial setback suffered by France in northern Indo-China...