Word: indo-china
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...Voice of the Arabs, a Cairo propaganda station supported by the Egyptian government, young Moslem fanatics began bombing French stores, derailing trains and stabbing French civilians. In 1954, the long knives and homemade bombs struck down 200 Frenchmen and wounded 500 more. Encouraged by French reverses in Indo-China, the Black Hand openly boasted: "Casablanca will become another Dienbienphu...
Syria and Lebanon were gone, so was Indo-China. Last week France was enmeshed in another colonial agony-this time nearer home...
...Morocco, but more, apparently, were needed. From its limited reserves in Europe, the French army flew a battalion of marines and a company of security police to beef up the Moroccan garrison. It even took space on commercial airliners to fetch hundreds of Senegalese NCOs from their units in Indo-China...
...Door. The man sent to investigate was Kansas-born U. (for Ural) Alexis Johnson, 46, an old Far Eastern hand now serving as U.S. Ambassador to Czechoslovakia. A husky six-footer, Johnson spent half a year in a Japanese internment camp in Manchuria and last year, at the Indo-China peace conference in Geneva, opened the first round of negotiations for the return of U.S. prisoners. Last week in Geneva Johnson faced an old antagonist: Red China's Wang Ping-nan, 47, Ambassador to Communist Poland and a close friend of Chou Enlai...
...sampling of Peking's press and radio comment showed that Red China was already picturing the Little Two parley as a pathway towards its traditional objectives: 1) surrender of Formosa, 2) membership for Red China in the U.N., 3) "strict fulfillment of the 1954 Geneva treaty on Indo-China," meaning that South Viet Nam must be surrendered in July 1956 by the device of rigged and improperly supervised elections. Communist propagandists suggested that if the U.S. persisted in stalling, Red China might have to make a show of force against the vulnerable offshore islands...