Word: indo-china
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...Waste in domestic spending comes to Congressmen's attention sooner and more surely than waste in foreign spending. ¶ The bill calls for $800 million for "a war that is no longer being waged" in Indo-China, although $450 million worth of equipment is "stacked on the docksides" and another $600 million is already in the Indo-China pipeline. ¶ Long realized that the new money for Indo-China might not be spent there, but be transferred to other areas. Said he: the other areas will have enough money without...
...received their independence in the past generation except the 20 million in French (and Spanish) North Africa. Of the world's 315 million Moslems, few outside the Iron Curtain remain "dependent peoples"; those few are mostly in Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria. Fanned by France's retreat in Indo-China, by Britain's from Iran...
...China introduced Pridi as "Public Leader of Thailand." Pridi posed carefully as a genuine Thai nationalist, urging Thais never to serve as "cannon fodder for imperialism," but instead to "wage a struggle" against the U.S. "Although the forces of peace have achieved a tremendous victory in restoring peace in Indo-China," cried Pridi, "U.S. imperialists and the Thai reactionary government are still lording it . . . They are bent on using Thailand as a base for aggression...
...clock one morning last week, France's Premier Pierre Mendès-France drove through deserted Parisian streets to Le Bourget Airport. He was bound for another trouble spot-Tunis, the capital of strife-torn Tunisia. Having made a "cruel" peace in Indo-China because French colonialism had missed its opportunity there, he was determined that France should not make the same mistake in North Africa...
Sound Trucks & Spielers. For three weeks, Frenchmen had been following the Tour. Truce in Indo-China, terrorism in Morocco, even Fashion Designer Dior's offensive against the bosom all receded while the nation concentrated on the biggest bike race in the world. Nearly 20 million people turned out to see the bikes go by. It was more than a sporting event, it was a triumph of showmanship-as French as a march on the Bastille or a meal with snails...