Word: indo-china
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...then queried me about Indo-China, concerning which I know practically nothing, as I told him. He also asked me whether I should prefer a dictatorship of the right or the left in France. My response that I should want no dictatorship of either extreme failed to satisfy him and he insisted that I choose...
Since the first of the year. Thomas' duties have taken him to Ceylon, India, Siam, China, Korea, French Indo-china, Japan and the Philippines. He rode the last scheduled flight out of Shanghat hours before the city fell to the Chinese Reds last spring...
...student group, the National Union of Students of Vietnam, is currently involved in a war against the French in the present conflict in French Indo-China. "The resistance and the work it requires takes all our time," the Vietnam student states...
...occupation during World War II). The Siamese feel no smoldering resentment against any former colonial masters, are also happy because their country is comparatively rich and not overcrowded. Yet all of its cheerfulness cannot shield Siam from the crosswinds of Communist insurrection which blow across the border from Burma, Indo-China and Malaya...
...kingdom of Laos is a wild and mountainous strip of land in the interior of Indo-China. It is almost twice as large (89,320 sq. mi.) as Pennsylvania, has a population of 1,012,000. Last week, at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Sisavang Vong, King of the Laotians, and French President Vincent Auriol signed a treaty establishing Laos as an independent nation within the French Union. French soldiers, who henceforth would be required to salute the Laotian flag, should have little trouble recognizing it: a red field bearing a three-headed white elephant topped by an umbrella...