Word: indo-china
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...frontier and a new ally in the cold war. The place is Indo-China, a Southeast Asian jungle, mountain and delta land that includes the Republic of Viet Nam and the smaller neighboring Kingdoms of Laos and Cambodia, all parts of the French Union...
...more than three years this land, in prewar times the rich French colony of Indo-China, has been suffering, on a lesser scale, the ruinous kind of civil war which won China for Communism. The Mao Tse-tung of the Indo-Chinese is a frail, but enduring comrade, who looks like a shriveled wizard; his nom de guerre is Ho Chi Minh (or One Who Shines). Chiang Kai-shek has no counterpart in Indo-China. The initial brunt of the Red attack has been borne by French soldiers. Meanwhile, the job of rallying native anti-Communist forces falls mainly...
...months' survey of Southeast Asia for the State Department. Griffin and his six-man team thought the wobbly non-Communist governments could be well buttressed within 15 months. The cost: $60 million in economic help-to be administered by a small crew of U.S. engineers and technicians. Indo-China should get $23 million for agricultural and public-health improvements, he said. About $11 million apiece should go to Indonesia, Burma and Siam, and $5,000,000 to Malaya. There were no legislative problems about the money: it could come out of the $100 million EGA appropriation for the "general...
Clearer & Firmer. France had assumed crucial importance not only in Western Europe, but in a more immediately dangerous cold war zone-Southeast Asia. Washington now feels that the French position in Indo-China is a key to the entire area. Last week, on the eve of the London conference, Dean Acheson formally decided to help the French in their costly war against IndoChina's Communist guerrillas (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...could hold Formosa. 2) The Chinese Nationalists cannot hold Formosa without U.S. help. 3) The fall of Formosa will make much less difficult the Communist conquest of Indo-China and the Philippines. 4) A Communist Formosa may call for a 20-40% increase of U.S. strength in the Pacific. 5) This increase will cost a great deal more than the cost of holding Formosa...