Word: indo-china
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...Viet Nam, the only one of the three associated states of Indo-China that had already lost much of its territory to the Communists, these further terms...
...guard of honor, because: "It's hardly the occasion for that sort of thing." He ordered his car along side streets into Paris, in case the people were lining the main roads. But Mendès need not have bothered. There was relief that the war in Indo-China was ended-nothing more. Fewer than 250 Parisians waited outside Mendès' Quai d'Orsay office, and these were mostly Communists who called out. "Long live peace!" as the Premier strode in to work...
...Munich; he drew only skimpy applause from his own Roman Catholic M.R.P. Party, and short shrift from Mendès. By a thundering vote, of 462 to 13, with 152 absent or abstaining (the latter mostly from Bidault's M.R.P.), the Assembly hailed "the cessation of hostilities in Indo-China, due in large measure to the decisive action of the Premier...
...Mendès is honest. He commands respect and admiration, and no objective review of his performance can avoid that conclusion. He inherited a situation which had already been rendered disastrous by the inability of France to defend Indo-China, and in that desperate situation, the Geneva agreement is not entirely...
...Peking time, Wednesday July 21, 1954, the Indo-China war came to its end. Geneva's decision reached out across the sharp-cut hills and jungles, across the paddies swollen in the rain. It settled densely, inevitable and expected, upon the shifting battle lines, upon the doubts of Saigon and Hanoi...