Word: indo-china
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...China's leaders have publicly admitted that they could not force Communism upon China and at the same time support wars elsewhere on the scale of either Korea or Indo-China. They want "a period of peace"-their kind of peace; they must have it as "an indispensable external condition" for the task which they now put before all others. China is "the base" for the revolution in the rest...
...cries from the Bevanite left, even the loudest cheers had no note of jubilation, and the warmest congratulation betrayed a nagging suspicion that not peace, but trouble, lay ahead. Britain sighed in gratitude for a respite. Said the Times: "There is cause for deep thankfulness in the news about Indo-China. There cannot be joy." Said the News Chronicle: "You can do something constructive with peace. You can only win a war . . . [But] a war averted can be a trap if it turns out to be only postponed...
...Britain made the same mistake again? There was talk of going ahead firmly with a Southeast Asia treaty to protect what was left. But no sooner had Eden returned than Churchill summoned the Cabinet. Having "achieved" an Indo-China peace, Churchill was thinking that now was the time, when the Communists were being "reasonable," to repeat the pattern and get a settlement with the Communists on Germany. Molotov, who had planned it that way, promptly helped the move along by his proposal for a new conference on "European security...
...Vatican daily, L'Osservatore Romano, rejoiced last week at the ending of bloodshed in Indo-China. "Nevertheless, for Catholics," it added, "there remain grave and alarming fears for the future of their brethren in creed who now have passed under a regime inspired and guided by Communism...
...Indo-China has a thousand-odd churches, some of them converted Buddhist temples (see cut). It is divided into 18 vicariates with about 1,400 native priests and 18 bishops (eight of them Indo-Chinese). Among them are Msgr. Pham Ngoc Chi, Bishop of Bui Chu and Msgr. Thaddeus Le Huu Tu, Bishop of Phat Diem. Msgr. Tu is the only Roman Catholic bishop in the world (besides the Pope, with his 100-odd Swiss Guards) to maintain his own private army-two regular battalions of 1,700 men, plus a militia of 5,800. (The two bishops and thousands...