Word: lai
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thai Federation, part of Bao Dai's Viet Nam state. Last December, while the French were fighting desperately to hold the port of Hanoi, Communist forces drove into the Thai and Muong country, pushed the French frontier guards back 100 miles to the outpost town of Lai Chau. The Communists then set about winning over Thais and Muongs...
...Lai Chau, the president of the Thai Federation (Deo Van Lang) and the French regional counselor (Ter-Sarkissoff) planned to beat the Communists at their own guerrilla game. A month's journey by land from Hanoi, they could not expect reinforcements. To the beleaguered French, a French plane dropped 1) three ammunition canisters filled with money, and 2) a case of champagne...
...broadcast from Peking, Red China's Foreign Minister Chou En-lai spurned the Assembly Cease-Fire Committee's third proposal in four weeks for a truce in Korea. It was a trick, he cried, designed "to give the United States troops a breathing space." He demanded abject U.N. surrender...
...reply came at last. Over Radio Peking, Red Premier Chou En-lai flatly brushed aside the cease-fire proposal. Like Wu, he spurned it as a trick designed to shield U.S. aggression. Like Wu, he insisted that U.N. forces be withdrawn from Korea. He added that the cease-fire resolution was null & void anyway, because Red China did not take part in the U.N. debate or vote on it. "Therefore," proclaimed Chou, "neither the Chinese government nor its representatives are prepared to have any contact with this illegal three-man committee...
...tung's government reacted to the U.N. concessions as Communist governments usually react to any signs of weakness. From Chinese Communist Foreign Minister Chou En-lai came a stiff message refusing the U.N. invitation to send delegates to discuss Chinese intervention in Korea. But, in answer to a previous Security Council invitation, Chou agreed to send delegates to discuss what Chou called U.S. "aggression on Formosa." Besides discussing Formosa, Chou suggested, his delegates ought to be given a chance to accuse the U.S. of "armed intervention" in Korea...