Word: indo-china
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...Secretary of State he wielded this weapon brilliantly-Trieste, Iran, Guatemala, Indo-China, Malaya, Austria, Formosa Strait, Lebanon, Berlin. He built up even more commanding influence because he wrapped up the political, military, economic and moral complexities of cold war into his own fighting faith. "Freedom must be a positive force that will penetrate," said John Foster Dulles. "If we demonstrate the good fruits of freedom, then we can know that freedom will prevail...
Ominous 13. The Algiers colonels' revolt of last May was dramatic proof of the disaffection that 14 years of losing colonial wars in Indo-China and North Africa had engendered in French professional officers. Just how deep that disaffection went is now the talk of Paris as the result of a new book by two top French newsmen, the brothers Serge and Merry Bromberger, who call the Algiers uprising a fusion of 13 distinct conspiracies ("the 13 plots...
...Southeast Asia, where these portents seemed especially clear, armed Communist insurrections in recent years were narrowly put down in Malaya, Indonesia, Burma and the fragmented states carved from French Indo-China...
...says-no one dares oppose her. Continually threatened by Ho Chi Minh's Communist North Viet Nam, President Diem rules strongly, spends more money on jails than on schools. South Viet Nam must be scored a pro-Western country with authoritarian overtones. But in 1954, when Indo-China was carved up, few gave it any hope at all of surviving...
Among the heroic figures in Indo-China's past, no two are more revered than the fabled Trungs-the beautiful young sisters who raised an army against the Chinese invaders in the middle of the 1st century and, faced with defeat, threw themselves into the Red River rather than surrender...