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...leisurely four days, had accepted Britain's recognition; by harshly treating its consular officials, they had made sure of U.S. hostility. To compound these complications, the Russians reached across Communist China last week to extend official recognition to the Communist rebels of Ho Chi Minh in French Indo-China...
Last week the new policy could be seen working on two fronts: 1) Russia recognized the government of Communist rebel Ho Chi Minh in Indo-China; 2) French Communists prepared a wave of waterfront strikes to hamstring U.S. military...
Bidault told the Assembly that the Paris police had picked up a young Indo-Chinese after a bus fight, found in his possession a top-secret report on Indo-China written by Revers. Police traced the report back to a "double or perhaps triple" informer and onetime embezzler named Roger Peyre, who said he had gotten the report from General Mast. Revers meanwhile had admitted giving it to Mast. Peyre, said Bidault, then sold the report for 2,800,000 francs to another agent who then turned it over to the Indo-Chinese Communists. Peyre intended to use the money...
Besides Formosa, Nationalist China has another beleaguered island redoubt. Oyster-shaped, about twice the size of New Jersey, with 3,000,000 inhabitants, Hainan Island lies in the South China Sea, only 15 miles from the Red mainland. The Japanese used it as a training ground and springboard for their conquest of Indo-China, Malaya and Singapore. From Hainan last week TIME Correspondent Wilson Fielder reported...
Park, who covered Far Eastern affairs in his talk, gave the French sponsored government in Indo-China only an even chance of surviving against the Communists. A Communist overthrow in Indo-China might easily be followed by the setting up of similar regimes in Burma, Malaya, and Thailand. He viewed the Far East as the touchiest area facing our foreign policy and recommended long term economic aid such as experimental farms and demonstration factories...