Word: indo-china
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Soon, however, Mendès himself was subjected to the demands of usage interne. The issue was Indo-China, but it might have been anything else that came to hand. In Parliament his majority was decreasing and his enemies increasing. From Gaullists to Socialists, the National Assembly took up the cry that the government plans to abandon what remains of French interests in Indo-China. Frenchmen, though they had almost unanimously supported him when he made the deal at Geneva, now show signs of reviling Mendès for his Indo-China "sellout," and for the fact that...
...Hope in Indo-China...
...think it of significance, too, that at the end of World War II, the French interned Chinese Nationalist troops in Indo-China and placed them on a small island off the coast . . . and were still holding them when I was in Indo-China. I was amazed to learn . . . our allies in World War II should have been interned in order to appease the Chinese Reds, who did not want these troops returned to Formosa ... It is all important to the security of the U.S. that the Associated States of Indo-China remain among the free nations of the world...
...Your article clearly illustrated the ruthlessness of the French and all their dirty, underhanded dealings in an effort to keep the people of Indo-China under their thumb. They supported Bao Dai, a puppet, who lived in frivolous luxury while the people suffered in poverty and disease. Ho Chi Minh lives simply and works hard, and took advantage of all this...
...month after endless month, the cause of freedom had been on the retreat in the Far East. There was truce without victory in Korea, then armistice with defeat in Indo-China. Flushed with success, the Chinese Communists began to reach out for more, boldly attacking Nationalist-held stepping-stone islands between the China mainland and For mosa. Meanwhile, the diplomatic offensive for the recognition of Red China drew more and more support from certain U.S. allies. Last week the U.S. completed a diplomatic counterthrust...