Word: indo-china
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...Lebanon. Syria. Indo-China, Madagascar, Tunisia, Morocco, Suez. Algeria ?and has either lost each war or felt cheated of complete victory. With a long record of involvement in politics, the French army played a part in the overthrow of each of the republics preceding De Gaulle's Fifth?except for the Third, which was destroyed not by the French but by Hitler's army...
Bidet Civilization. Back in France after the Indo-China war, the paratroop officers are sickened by the "civilization of the Frigidaire and the bidet." They welcome the Algerian rebellion, and. under Colonel Raspèguy. take over the misfits and mutineers of the 10th Paratroop Regiment, determined to turn them into "Communists" who are antiCommunist. For two months, the regiment is molded by forced marches and the blare of loudspeakers that ceaselessly extol "us" and denounce "them," i.e.. anyone who is not a paratrooper...
Most of Tshombe's staff work was coordinated by French army veterans seasoned in Indo-China and Algeria. Ablest and best known is Major Rene Faulkes, a thin, ascetic ex-para officer who was left for dead in Indo-China and who became notorious in Algeria for torturing French sympathizers of the F.L.N. Faced with a treason rap in France, many of the French mercenaries are acutely sensitive about publicity; they have threatened to kill photographers and television cameramen who have attempted to take their pictures. "The French are brave, resolute, and fanatical," says a former U.N. official. "Most...
...museums and private collections all over the U.S. It is the first Khmer exhibition ever held in this country, and it is a delight to see. The Khmer artists, though much influenced by India, developed a style of their own that outshone anything produced in what was to become Indo-China. The great temple of Angkor Wat, still Cambodia's most admired show place, was their work, but it and the other ruins of Angkor are so dramatic and overwhelming that the individual pieces of sculpture and bas-relief tend to get swallowed up. It is the virtue...
...past seven years he has served as his nation's chief liaison officer with the International Control Commission, manned by a Canadian, an Indian and a Pole. The I.C.C. is supposed to "verify" the observance of the treaty terms of the 1954 Geneva Conference, which divided up French Indo-China...