Word: indo-china
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...Indo-China be held against Communism? In search of an answer, TIME'S Paris Bureau Chief Andre Laguerre spent six weeks in the troubled, war-torn country. His report...
...Indo-China is one of the five critical places on earth that are most vulnerable to Communist attack (the other four: Formosa, Germany, Yugoslavia, Iran). If Indo-China falls, all of southeast Asia is likely to go. The U.S. position in the Philippines would be outflanked. The weak governments of Burma, Siam and Indonesia could probably not long resist Communist pressure, and the Red tide would sweep to the borders of India. Indo-China may hold the difference between limited success and total disaster of U.S. policy and U.S. hopes in Asia...
...first is against the forces of Communist Ho Chi Minh. The second battle is now being prepared-an invasion abetted or led by Red China. The third battle, urgent and complex, is political, and it has to be won if the West is to establish relations with Indo-China on a sounder moral and material basis than the past lack of an Asian policy has allowed...
There are some severe things to be said of past and present French attitudes in Indo-China. But now it is the French army that is keeping Indo-China out of Communist hands. In Indo-China, France has committed one-quarter of her navy and more than half of her flying personnel. Her army of 150,000 in Indo-China includes her finest professional officers and troops, who would be of incalculable value in Korea, who are desperately needed in France for the defense of Europe...
...Strong Are the Reds? The military situation in Indo-China is not bad. A bleak way of putting it would be to say that the situation in southeast Asia has deteriorated so much that Indo-China emerges as the West's strong point in this part of the world...