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Soon Malraux was back in Indo-China, seeking fresh testing places for his soul, and "something outside himself" in revolutions. He organized the "Young Annam" movement, then moved on to Canton. There he met Mikhail Borodin, Russian adviser to China's revolutionaries. Malraux in 1925 helped organize the Canton general strike aimed at British Hong Kong and directed propaganda for the Communist wing of the Kuomintang. He lingered on in China, was probably in Shanghai shortly after the Communist uprising in 1927. Between revolutions, he wandered the world, from India to Japan, from Central Asia...
...after being feted in Peking, Ho was bound for Moscow. Ho has said that he will negotiate for elections only with the French and not with South Viet Nam's Premier Ngo Din Diem, whose government did not sign the Geneva Agreements. Ho, who fought the seven year Indo-China war in the guise of a local patriot eager to throw out French colonialism, now wants the French around to help him take over South Viet...
...international relations are marked by considerable tensions which are aggravated periodically by propaganda for a new war . . . constant stockpiling of atomic and hydrogen weapons . . . large-scale construction of military bases . . ." By contrast, said Molotov, it was the "peace-loving countries" that had terminated the wars in Korea and Indo-China, the deadlock on the Austrian State Treaty, the long quarrel with Tito's Yugoslavia...
...record in Asia. The Korean truce was popular with the U.S. public because it ended the bloodshed and brought the boys home from a war that was getting nowhere. But the Korean truce hurt the anti-Communist cause in Asia; the damage was compounded by the failure in Indo-China. The Geneva agreement, giving much of Viet Nam to the Reds, marked the low point of anti-Communism in Asia. Some observers thought that the descent continued with Eisenhower's expressed willingness to negotiate a cease-fire in the Formosa Strait. The President believed that this move was important...
Faure's report on Algeria was no more encouraging. "The situation is not developing favorably," admitted his Minister of the Interior, Maurice Bourges-Maunoury, announcing that another 20,000 troops will be sent there as soon as they return from Indo-China. Next day the French smashed at rebel strongholds in eastern Algeria with fighter-bombers, parachutists and motorized infantry, while in the cities police made mass roundups...