Word: indo-china
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...that it was only a matter of time until the U.S. openly intervened in the Algerian rebellion and took over from France as the dominant power in North Africa. Artfully he recalled what happened when France, in dealing with the Communists, was obliged to give up its fight for Indo-China. The upshot of the 1954 Geneva Conference, he declared, was that the U.S. got control of South Viet Nam, the Chinese Communists got North Viet Nam, and "all we Russians got out of it was bills." This, Vinogradov confided, did not strike Nikita Khrushchev as an extraordinarily happy state...
Onions v. Wine. Though he lost an eye in Indo-China, he was sent to Algeria to take command of the crack Third Colonial Parachute Regiment. A martinet but the idol of his men, Bigeard whipped them into shape by running them as much as 15 miles at a time. He made them shave every day, no matter where they were, doled out raw onions instead of the traditional wine ration because "wine reduces stamina." With all-night marches and sudden paratroop raids, he won every engagement, became so successful at outwitting the rebels ("He thinks like a fellagha," says...
...half-year course, Government 118, in the "Government and Politics of Southeast Asia." The course, to be given in the Fall by Rupert Emerson '22, professor of Government, and Anthony N. Wahl, instructor in Government, deals with the governmental institutions and problems of Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Burma, Indo-china, and Malaya...
...without a far graver crisis and far more parliamentary support than he now commands. The unrest in the French army, which has aroused nervous talk abroad of a military coup, is still largely confined to a few embittered career officers, mostly young colonels exasperated by years of frustration in Indo-China, Morocco, Suez and now Algeria. As for the ordinary Frenchman, he is too busy enjoying his nation's unprecedented prosperity to feel anything more than weary apathy toward politics. Last week saw two new records set in Paris. One was for the number of private cars leaving...
Under sharp questioning from the National Assembly's Foreign Affairs Committee, Pineau finally admitted that neither the Cabinet nor Robert Lacoste, France's Minister Resident in Algeria, had known in advance of the decision to attack Sakiet-Sidi-Youssef. Neither, apparently, had General Raoul Salan, the luckless Indo-China veteran who commands French forces in Algeria. The murderous blow that earned France worldwide obloquy had been ordered by a local air force officer, reportedly a colonel, on the strength of an imprecise government directive authorizing retaliatory attack on Algerian rebel concentrations in the immediate frontier areas bordering...