Word: indo-china
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...Indo-China. The French are slowly making military headway in Indo-China against the Viet Minh* revolutionary party, headed by a clever 55-year-old goat-bearded Communist, Ho Chih-minh. Did military progress mean much? A few weeks ago, miles inside the French lines, TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod, riding in a French military convoy, came upon the scene of an ambush. The rebels had blown up the convoy ahead of him, killing 48 persons, some horribly. Sherrod cabled this impression...
...true that all is not in order here, but much has been done. For example, in those large areas where there is no Communist problem China is a good risk. . . . Even the French are interested in a railway between Chengtu and Indo-China. Only the Americans hold aloof-waiting for better risks...
More than a few A.G.R.S. men fell into situations which savored of Terry and the Pirates. Communist detachments held some of them prisoner, in the belief that they were spies for Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist forces. One A.G.R.S. team crossed into Indo-China and found a blonde French woman leading a band of Vietnamese guerrillas. A C-47 crew, which crashed in the Himalayan hills, walked back 350 miles through bandit country. For fear of dysentery they lived entirely on boiled eggs until natives talked them into a meal of fried bees (which tasted like a cross between...
...When a Deputy paid tribute to 'the sons of France who have fallen in Indo-China, innocent victims of the Viet Nam's stab in the back,' all Deputies save the Communists rose in silent homage. Thorez half rose, then subsided...
From these speculations to the fear of civil war was only a step. Would this fear abate, now that the Indo-China crisis was past? Perhaps the only ones who knew were an old Black Sea mutineer and a man called "L'oeil de Moscou...