Word: indo-china
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...medical studies in France three decades ago, and his French wife, had taught him much of Western culture. When he had returned to Indo-China he had successfully blended two careers: Occidental medicine and Oriental rice-growing. He had labored to preserve the best of both East and West for himself and his fellow Annamites. Even now his wife was in France, where his two fair-skinned daughters, whose photographs stood on his ordered desk, were in school. Dr. Thinh summed up his schizoid philosophy by calling himself a Buddhist Socialist...
Moscow-trained Viet Nam Leader Ho Chih-minh did not mourn for Thinh, the statesman, or for Thinh, the rich rice grower. Ho said acidly: "The loss of an excellent physician ... is regrettable." But warrior monk Thierry d'Argenlieu, French High Commissioner in Indo-China (who had been granted leave by the Vatican from his duties as head of French Carmelite monks to take a naval command in the first years of the war), knelt at a flag-and flower-draped coffin, solemnly kissed the cold forehead of Dr. Thinh. Said he: "In an Annamite country, it requires infinite...
...Australia, Indo-China, India, Burma and Sinkiang during the hottest times of the war. He flew so many combat missions with the Fourteenth Air Force (and was awarded the Air Medal) that the editors at home finally ordered him to stop risking his life. He visited Communist headquarters at Yenan. He did not leave China for good until he had flown to see the surrender at Tokyo...
Participants in a furious jungle war were finding peace a reluctant prize. Last year the "Republic" of Viet Nam (almost half the size of France), formerly part of French Indo-China, waged a fierce minor struggle for independence from France. At Fontainebleau last week, the French-Viet Nam peace conference broke wide open, seriously endangering France's already tottering colonial policy. Chiefly responsible was Viet Nam's self-styled "President" Ho Chin Minh...
...French out of Indo-China...