Word: indo-china
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There was no mention at this round-table meeting of Chiang Kai-shek or Indo-China. MacArthur did most of the talking, and did so, said Presidential Press Secretary Charlie Ross, "magnificently." The meeting took exactly two hours...
...down on a farm." For four years before Korea, his friend told him, Russia had been pulling the biggest bluff in history. In Korea, the Russian officer said, the U.S.S.R. had lost not only face, but great stores of military equipment which it had hoped to use again in Indo-China and Siam. The Kremlin had also made some very bad mistakes in Europe. "Every one-legged German," said the Russian lugubriously, "would carry a gun against...
...public he will have to be solidly anti-Communist; to the Chinese Communists he will have to be a dispassionate suitor; to India he will have to be the friend of Asian nationalism; to France he will have to be the friend of French Indo-China. To make it more difficult he will go in as spokesman of a large bloc of world opinion...
...Should Indo-China fall, the neighboring countries would be untenable against the Reds. Siam, a happy, well-fed land whose ill-equipped army (30,000 men) and relaxed government could not withstand aggression. Malaya, where Malayan and crack British forces (85,000 men) have been trying for more than two years to finish off an estimated 3,000 Red guerrillas, is a baffling headache to the British. Burma has managed (more or less) to subdue its gun-toting Communists and the tough Karen rebels, but the country is still highly unstable. Fall of these countries in turn would directly menace...
...Speed up the general counter-offensive," urged Communist Author Ho Ang Tung in the current issue of Truth, official organ of Indo-China's "Marxist Study Association." "We must learn the rich experiences of armed struggle...