Word: indo-china
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After he became TIME'S Southeast Asia correspondent in 1950, Dowling commuted between his Singapore base and the wars in Malaya and Indo-China. His painstaking dispatches for TIME'S cover stories on France's GENERAL JEAN DE LATTRE DE TASSIGNY (Sept. 24, 1951) and GENERAL SIR GERALD TEMPLER of Malaya (Dec. 15, 1952) were models of thoughtful reporting...
...Tunisia (which gives the Arabs some hope of self-government) would in time prove a model for Morocco. Now the Lemaigre murder has shocked into silence even advocates of strong-arm repression like Marshal Juin. Action is long overdue, unless France is to see Morocco go the way of Indo-China...
...French, who insisted that the German ftrength be held to twelve divisions so that the French would always be stronger, have never succeeded in meeting their 'NATO quota of 14 divisions. First there was Indo-China; since then the French have raided their forces in Europe to provide reinforcements for Africa. Last fall, over U.S. protests, they withdrew the equivalent of two light divisions to garrison Tunisia. To the U.S., which has promised to keep its five divisions in Germany, and to Britain, which reversed a policy of centuries by guaranteeing to maintain an army...
...grown bitter. He is not yet a card-carrying Communist. But he has joined the Red-led Confédération Générate du Travail, and he is swallowing Communist propaganda. The Communists predicted German rearmament, defeat in Indo-China, economic misery. "It's the only party that tells the truth," Bérard argues. Deep down, Jean is less a militant pro-Communist than a bitter man protesting. More than anything he would like to be somebody else. "If my parents had money, I would have been a student, and I think I would...
...year, Frenchmen have been flocking to the Paris Bourse, demonstrating a faith in their economy that has long been lacking. With hoarded francs or those repatriated from the uncertainty of Indo-China, they furiously bought stocks, driving the market to dizzy heights. Stock-exchange volume doubled in 1954, added still another 50% this year, soared with every scrap of good news. Powered by Esso Standard's oilfield discovery at Parentis-en-Born near Bordeaux (which nearly doubled France's domestic oil production), Esso stock went up from 7,000 to 90,000 francs in less than a year...