Word: indo-china
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...however the cease-fire declarations were intended-has moved nearer to the British position that Chiang Kai-shek should be firmly tied down to Formosa and the Reds recognized as the government of China. The failure to fight Korea through to victory, the defeat in Indo-China, the squabble between the Western allies over China policy, are all part of the same retrograde movement...
...immediate aggression to take over South Korea, but we left him there better trained...We left him there arrogant. He had made the people behind the Iron Curtain think that he had won a victory, and we left him ready and poised to strike again, as he did in Indo-China...
...Against fewer than 6,000 Communist guerrillas, the British are currently deploying more than 250,000 troops, home guards and police. General Sir Gerald Templer's brilliant slash-and-starve campaign of two years ago drove the demoralized Communists into jungle lairs, but the Communist victories in nearby Indo-China have produced a new, hopeful rallying cry in the Malay jungles: "Father Mao Is Coming...
...slowed to a halt after catching 68, killing 14. Among the dead: two infants, a local health official. During the scare, more than 150,000 Bretons were vaccinated, along with all travelers and tourists. Cited as the bearer of the smallpox virus: a French army noncom just back from Indo-China...
...speech (6½ minutes). He ran through a noteworthy list of events: the Korean war had ended, trouble had been eased in Iran, in Egypt and in Trieste, the Communists had suffered a defeat in Central America. Western European Union had moved closer to reality. Despite the losses in Indo-China, he would say that "the foreign situation is more stable, generally speaking," although it is by no means "rosy...