Word: indo-china
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After a summer of doldrums and defeats-Geneva, Indo-China, the death of EDC-the democracies had suddenly rallied and rolled out some new and hand some diplomatic field-pieces: the all but completed Anglo-Egyptian settlement over Suez, the Anglo-Iranian oil agreement, the harmonious partition of Trieste and, above all, the potentially history-changing Act of London. With this quick parade of successes, the Atlantic alliance seemed to recover the ground, and the spirit, that were lost with EDC. Europe, with the potent help of the U.S., had produced a new plan to rearm the West Germans...
...known about Baranés' access to defense secrets since May, even paid him $570 a month to stay in the Communist network. But, apparently, Dides was content to go on "watching" as the ring delivered crucial defense decisions and information of France's plight in Indo-China without lifting a finger to stop it. Why? What was he waiting...
...clad troops of the Communist Viet Minh rolled into the city in Russian Molotov trucks, Russian command cars and jeeps, on bicycles and afoot. Thus IndoChina's ancient capital (pop. 400,000) passed into Communist hands, in starkly simple faithfulness to the Geneva agreement which turned half of Indo-China over to Red rule...
...triumph was Ho Chi Minh, who has scarcely been seen by Western eyes since 1947. "He is working on an important task elsewhere," explained a newspaper, and from "elsewhere" a decree was issued over the 63-year-old Red leader's name proclaiming Hanoi the capital of Communist Indo-China. President Ho, the Communists indicated, will make his entry next week in time to receive India's Prime Minister Nehru when he stops off on his way to see Communist China's rulers in Peking...
...FOREIGN NEWS), a company of bare-chested Legionnaires marched into a factory and went to work. They smashed huge holes in the brick walls, hauled out all the machines they could carry and loaded them into waiting trucks. Within hours, the prosperous $15 million Brewery & Cold Storage of Indo-China was a wreck, but much of its equipment was headed south into the French zone. Like many another French business, the Brewery had first hoped to stay in Hanoi after the Geneva truce partitioned the country last July. But at the last minute, the owners changed their minds, frantically salvaged...