Word: indo-china
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...three disclosed incidents was last May, when Joseph Laniel was Premier. The second involved minutes of the Defense Committee meeting of June 28 (two weeks after Mendès-France had become Premier), at which the committee discussed the details of France's near-hopeless military plight in Indo-China. The Geneva Conference was then in progress, and the Communists' familiarity with the stark facts about France's position presumably allowed them to raise their asking price for a settlement. Mendès-France was at Geneva when he first heard of the leaks...
...Across Indo-China's 17th parallel - the truce line set at Geneva-moved the long, weary procession of refugees from the Communist North. In the South they were received on farms or in improvised tent cities which the U.S. helped supply; most of them will eventually be assigned new land. Among these anti-Communist refugees were 10,000 soldiers of a special type. They looked no different from the other Vietnamese peasants, but they were the remnants of one of the last real church armies in the world: the fighting Catholics of Tonkin, led by round, shrewd Bishop Thaddeus...
...Must Fight." No man in Indo-China was more an uncontested ruler than Bishop Tu, a French-schooled Vietnamese and a onetime Trappist monk. His flock was half a million farmers who lived in the rich Tonkin coastal area. Le Huu Tu dotted his little theocracy with schools, seminaries, orphanages, and cathedral-sized churches. He walked a tricky tightrope of diplomacy, between the Viet Minh revolutionists, the Vietnamese loyalists and the French colonials...
...economy. He has recognized that France is no longer the major power it once was. Some of the results of his new look are not exactly pleasing to those Americans who would see everything as a reflection of our own image; a shaky--but necessary--peace has descended on Indo-China, and long overdue reforms have braced a falling colonial empire in Tunisia and Morocco...
...first part of the Mendes plan consisted of deflating illusions and facing facts. This is the story of Indo-China, and the story of EDC. The past has now been liquidated. The new regime must construct the future. The second stage opens with Mendès' economic plan. Two of its aims have top priority...