Word: indo-china
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Saved by Two. These passions, and more, congealed when Mendès submitted his Indo-China budget. The Finance Committee scorned it, 25 to 14. When Mendès raced over to the National Assembly to try to save the day, he arrived just in time to hear a right-wing Deputy explaining that former Foreign Minister Georges Bidault had been all set to clear up the whole Indo-China mess when Mendès interfered and toppled the Laniel Cabinet. "That sounds like a beautiful serialized novel," Mendès cracked, but the Assembly was not amused. It voted...
...began to look as if Mendès would be overthrown before he could get a vote on the Paris accords. Suddenly, out of the blue, two Deputies of Bidault's M.R.P. announced that they would switch their votes. At 4:30 a.m., Mendès' revised Indo-China budget was accepted by just two votes, 295 to 293. The Mendès government was saved by a hair'sbreadth; the ratification debate could...
...were playing a cat-and-mouse game, keeping him in office for their own purposes. Resigned to the inevitability of German rearmament, these expert infighters were determined to identify Mendès with that needed but unpopular measure. Then they meant to kick him out, perhaps on the Indo-China issue...
...deteriorating circumstances, a U.S. general last week urged an honest college try in Indo-China. "I haven't even begun to think of writing off this country," said Lieut. General John ("Iron Mike") O'Daniel, head of the U.S. Military Assistance Advisory Group in Saigon. "Americans don't walk out on a situation because of a few setbacks, or because we don't get dollar-for-dollar value...
Handsome Jean Sainteny, 47, looked like the very Frenchman to talk coexistence with Ho Chi Minh. Sainteny served before the Indo-China war as French Commissioner in Hanoi, and wrote a bitterly anti-U.S., pro-Ho book about it. He was subsequently wounded by an exploding Communist hand grenade, but this did not dim his ardor for Ho, whom he called "the Gandhi of Indo-China...