Word: indo-china
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...Korea, Indo-China, Malaya and Burma, the traveler said, the cold war was "hot." Mao Tse-tung's Peking government was using Hitler's technique-threatening reprisals against relatives in China unless Chinese in other Asiatic countries showed their loyalty to the Reds. The massing of Red troops along Asiatic borders was often enough to paralyze any incipient anti-Communist policy. Transplanted Chinese populations, Chinese-language newspapers, even wealthy Chinese were going over to Communism in wholesale lots...
...Loud Ties. The key spot and the most dangerous one was Indo-China. On its northern border stood Mao Tse-tung's troops, giving encouragement to the guer rilla chief, Ho Chi Minh. Indo-China was coveted by the Reds not alone for its strategic advantage. Mao Tse-tung, faced with famine at home, had his eyes on IndoChina's spreading fields of rice. But in Indo-China, the traveler thought, there was also some cause for optimism. Emperor Bao Dai, despite his passion for "sports coats and loud neckties," was intelligent and an energetic leader...
...weeks ago gave its official nod of recognition to the state of Viet Nam, which the French had sponsored in Indo-China under former Emperor and reformed playboy Bao Dai. Last week ships of the U.S. Seventh Fleet, commanded by Vice Admiral Russell S. Berkey, steamed through the South China Sea in a show of support for Bao Dai. Two destroyers, the U.S.S. Stickell and the U.S.S. Anderson, tied up at the capital of Saigon while Admiral Berkey paid a courtesy call on Bao Dai (see cut). The U.S. aircraft carrier Boxer sent her planes over Saigon...
Noel Sherry, assistant circulation manager of TIME-LIFE International, has just returned from a 16,000-mile business trip to Hawaii, Siam, Indo-China, Indonesia, the Bahrein Islands, Iran, Turkey, Israel, and way places around the world. His account of his six-month journey seems to offer an interesting supplement to the daily reports of trained journalists in these areas. It contains much evidence that U.S. influence is truly global and touches the lives of the people everywhere...
India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru does not mind Communists in China or maybe even in Indo-China. But Communists just across the northeast frontier in Nepal-never! Last week Nehru's Foreign Ministry proclaimed, no doubt for the ears of any Chinese Reds who might be infiltrating through Tibet to Nepal: "A threat to Nepal is a threat to India herself...