Word: indo-china
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Overrating the importance of the FOA's tentative schedule is difficult. Designating Asia as the critical area for communism, the FOA proposes increased expenditures from Pakistan to Japan, with greatest emphasis on Indo-China. The FOA would administer nearly 80 percent of all foreign aid funds in that area, incorporating an Asian equivalent of the Organization for European Economic Cooperation. The program would make it easier for the assisted nations to develop their trade and mutual aid. Unfortunately, the insecure existence of the FOA casts a sad shadow on the future of foreign aid programs...
...administration, but the lack of Congressional approval provides little security to men like Premier Yoshida of Japan who have repeatedly called for American assistance. Also, there are numerous FOA personnel who must plod through the quick sands of doubt in day to day operation of the program. In Indo-China alone, the FOA has 120 men helping with the long range assistance, involving $100 million for this fiscal year alone...
...French colonials make their own contribution to chaos. Some, hoping to maintain privileges in the rubber-rich South, are encouraging the Vietnamese generals to intrigue against Diem; other Frenchmen want to replace Diem with Buu Hoi, 39, a left-wing leprosy expert who has not lived in Indo-China for 20 years. In the Communist North, a 20-man French mission hopes to keep "the French presence" in the Viet Minh state, and do business there; there is even talk of French help to rebuild the vital strategic railroad from Hanoi to Langson on the Red China frontier...
...French journalist. Others are bitter. "These people have no appreciation, no understanding of all we have done for them," said a Frenchwoman on a terrace, sipping lemonade. Commissioner General Paul Ely is faithfully working with the U.S. to strengthen South Viet Nam, but others are not. "They treat Indo-China," complained an American, "like a Frenchman treats a mistress in whom he's losing interest. He doesn't want her for himself, but he gets sore if anyone else shows interest...
...Cork in the Bottle." The U.S. was certainly late in getting interested. In the closing days of World War II, President Roosevelt denounced the "shocking record" of French colonialism, and the U.S. later stipulated that its aid to France must not be used in the colonial war in Indo-China. It took Americans some time to realize that the French, for all their colonial faults, were fighting an enemy that for all its anticolonial pretensions, was actually and determinedly Communist. By then the hour was late. "We have here a sort of cork in the bottle" said President Eisenhower...