Word: indo-china
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...Indo-China, Stalin told Roosevelt at a private meeting, was a very important area. To the Russian dictator, who stood no higher than 5 ft. 4 in., the President said that "the Indo-Chinese were people of small stature, like the Javanese and Burmese, and were not warlike...
Precision Weapons. The Communists, he continued, persistently belittle U.S. resolution, holding up the Korean truce, the Indo-China settlement and the evacuation of the Tachen Islands as evidences of U.S. weakness. "In such ways Chinese Communist propaganda portrays the U.S. as being merely a paper tiger . . . We must always remember that the free nations of the Western Pacific and Southeast Asia will quickly lose their freedom if they think that our love of peace means peace at any price. We must, if occasion offers, make it clear that we are prepared to stand firm and, if necessary, meet hostile force...
...talk of retaliation and explain that bombs are no good against infiltration and subversion. In his speech Dulles acknowledged that subversion was perhaps the greatest problem of Southeast Asia today. Then, to show the relationship between military power and political progress, he cited the example of the little Indo-China kingdom of Laos, plagued by Communist-supported "disloyal elements." The government of Laos is "worried, lest, if it suppresses the Communists within, it will be struck by the Communists from without." But, he explained, if the U.S., through SEATO, promises protection from aggression, Laos can turn its full attention...
...drawback to ambiguity in U.S. pronouncements on the Far East is that Free Asians have come to read it as a forerunner of retreat. This is understandable: U.S. ambiguity about its plans in Korea was followed by stalemate and armistice, in Indo-China by retreat, and in the Tachens by evacuation. Today, even a hint of further retreat seriously demoralizes those Asian political leaders who have crawled out on a limb to support U.S. policy. For example, in the politically sensitive Philippines, President Ramon Magsaysay last month summoned all his prestige to fight through the Philippine Senate a resolution backing...
Almost as soon as Father Roget reaches Indo-China as a French army chaplain, his religious certainties begin to waver. Riding through the crushing heat of the jungle to a front-line outpost, he passes a ruined pagoda, and is horrified by his sudden vision of his own God "dying in the grasp of the foul, green fungus, speckled with the disease of decay." At the front Colonel Lejeune, a magnificent soldier, tells him with cold insolence that he would have preferred reinforcements to a priest. The French are corroded by defeatism, many of the soldiers are themselves Communists...