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...reformatory for bad governments . . ." Communist Russia, with veto power, already seriously limits'the U.N.'s peacemaking function, and Communist China in the U.N. would compound the damage. "Should a regime which in seven years has promoted five foreign or civil wars-Korea, Indo-China, Tibet, the Philippines and Malaya; which itself has fought the U.N. and which today stands condemned by the U.N. as an aggressor; which defies the U.N. decision to reunify Korea; which openly proclaims its con tinuing purpose to use force-should that regime be given a permanent seat...
...languid, landlocked little Indo-Chinese kingdom of Laos, a man's rank is told by the color of his umbrella.. Old King Sisavang Vong, who reigns in the royal capital of Luang Prabang, rates a white umbrella. Lesser noble fry rate umbrellas of varying hues and sizes. Viceroys, for instance, are entitled to yellow...
Recalled to Saigon by the French, and named Premier after the Communist victory at Dienbienphu, Roman Catholic Diem (his family has been Catholic since the 17th century) took office just as the big powers at Geneva were about to halt the Indo-China war by splitting Viet Nam in two-with the industrialized northern half going to Communist Ho Chi Minh. Sixteen months later Nationalist Diem took the final step. Overwhelmingly victorious in a national referendum which ousted the French puppet-Emperor, and named Diem chief of state, he proclaimed Viet Nam a republic, became its first President. Even with...
...chairs and tables out across the sidewalks again. Lovers exchanged lilies of the valley, and concierges, in good humor after the winter hibernation, restored their bird cages to outside window ledges. But beneath the soft blue sky, Paris was in torment; the war in Algeria was now like the Indo-China war at its worst. But unlike Indo-China in the days of Dienbienphu, no end, whether in defeat or victory, was within sight in Algeria...
...Communist North Viet Nam. Laos' plea: the U.S., along with Brit ain and France, should reaffirm its support of the Laos government against Communist pressure-particularly from the two Communist-controlled provinces in northeastern Laos. Reason: under the terms of the 1954 Geneva agreement which ended the Indo-China War, the two Red provinces were to have been reintegrated with the mother country...