Word: indo-china
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Most of the men in the small cement fortress near the Moroccan border were Moslem riflemen in French uniform, professionals and veterans who had fought for France in Europe and Indo-China. Only the officer in command and a scattering of other ranks were French. Among the 80 Moslems was Corporal Cheraf Abd el Krim, who in Indo-China had been captured by the Communist Viet Minh and then released...
...scheme for mutual aerial inspection have all shown that the President when he chooses, is his own best Secretary of State. Indeed, at one critical point, Eisenhower had to side-step both the Vice President and Foster Dulles to prevent U.S. troops from fighting a hopeless defense of Indo-china...
...Latin Quarter room with its nude prints, Le Pen installed the new mistress he had picked up in Saigon-an elfin artist with inch-long silver fingernails and two-toned hair (blond on brown). He was bitter about the Communists, about Mendès France's "betrayal" of Indo-China, scornful of France's Deputies, whom he labeled degenerates. Poujade, with his chaotic down-with-taxes, down-with-Parliament protest movement, seemed just what he was looking for. Accused during the campaign of keeping a mistress. Le Pen sneered: "I suppose I am different. I like women...
...easier to be a political novelist than Secretary of State. Robert Shaplen, onetime correspondent in the Far East, demonstrates in A Forest of Tigers that the novelist holds cards the diplomat could never hope to draw. The proving ground is Indo-China around 1950, when the Communists had fully shown their hand but had not yet begun their big push. How was the U.S. to handle its difficult French allies, faction-ridden Viet Nam, the everlasting intrigue, the demagogic appeal of the Reds...
...there is the real problem of how to convince the world that America stands for freedom. But it is frightening to think of this mission in the hands of men like Author Shaplen's hero. For Adam Patch is just a fugitive from the WPA era transplanted to Indo-China; any halfway smart Communist agent could sell him the Hanoi bridge...