Word: indo-china
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...second time this year we have stood immovably with a policy, and have had to watch it fail. In the spring it was the Navarre Plan for the military recovery of Indo-China and now it is the European Defense Community. In both cases there were warnings that at the best the prospects of success were slim, and that no time should be lost in preparing an alternative to fall back upon. Both times the Administration not only refused to heed the warnings but refused to consider, even hypothetically, what to do if the Navarre Plan or EDC proved unworkable...
...meeting was important, no doubt, and the importance was enhanced by recent free-world defeats in Indo-China, Geneva and Paris (which Dulles did not allude to). But SEATO was beset by a cloud of its own difficulties and handicaps...
Thailand and the Philippines found themselves in a dispute over internal "liberation" movements. Since Thailand now finds herself threatened by the same kind of "inside job" as Indo-China was, she wanted guarantees against subversion. The Philippines wished to avoid any definition that would require her to help a colonial power quell a genuine nationalist movement. The U.S. wanted to protect the southern tier of Asian states-Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Viet Nam. The Philippines wanted to defend only treaty signers and challenged the right of France to sign for the three independent states of Indo-China...
Blaze of the Sun, by Jean Hougron (Farrar, Straus & Young; $3.75). If all the Frenchmen in Indo-China behaved more or less like the ones in this novel, no wonder they lost the war. Amid all the offensives and ambushes, Novelist Hougron's characters worry chiefly about who goes to bed with whom-or more particularly, with My-Diem, a shapely Annamite who used to be a Communist agent, married a French colonial official and, before the book is over, earns herself one of the hottest spots in the Buddhist hell by committing adultery with yet another Frenchman. Along...
...likely to change the whole trend towards peace that the Geneva Conference has created . . . Probably in America the crisis of our time is supposed to be Communism v. antiCommunism. The crisis in Asia is colonialism v. anti-colonialism . . . Was the tragic history of 7½ years of war in Indo-China not due to an attempt to prolong the colonial era?" It was the old familiar Nehru line; his supporters had heard it before, and the public galleries were almost empty...