Word: minh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rubicon, the point where he must finally choose sides." Reason: Nehru was so deeply impressed by the extensive influence of Indian culture in both countries, as well as their real independence from French colonialism, that he decided on diplomatic recognition and personally appealed to Communist Boss Ho Chi Minh in neighboring North Viet Nam not to violate their frontiers...
...promised Nehru solemnly that he would never dream of such a dreadful thing, proceeded forthwith to violate a frontier. The Communist Pathet Lao regime, which had grabbed some 13,000 sq. mi. of northern Laos in flagrant violation of the Geneva cease-fire agreements, began as a Viet Minh appendage. In the past year Ho's agents have built it up into a tightly disciplined Communist state, complete with full-dress government ministries, a capital at Samneua, brainwashing squads and a conscripted army of 10,000 men trained, supplied, and controlled by 1.500 or more regular Viet Minh troops...
Last week, on a formal visit to New Delhi. Katay accused the Viet Minh of outright aggression, bluntly reminded Nehru that "Laos was an outpost of Indian civilization when there was competition between India and China ... We look to you today for help." In effect, he was challenging Nehru to invoke his old promise from Ho Chi Minh. Nehru simply said: "It's for the people of Laos to solve their own problems, not for others to interfere too much," and offered to help arrange further negotiations between the legal government and the Red interlopers...
...composing love ballads, keeping race horses and elephants, a troop of dancing girls and a harem of concubines. But he was no mere playboy Oriental monarch. He also helped to win his country's freedom from French colonial rule, led his army in a skirmish against invading Viet Minh Communists and encouraged his diplomats to stand up successfully to Molotov and Chou Enlai at last year's Geneva meeting. Yet he felt powerless really to run his land, to keep it clear of corruption and out of a head-in-sand neutrality. Cambodia, he decided, is a monarchy...
...World War II, when ex-King Sihanouk was only in his early twenties. Since then, besides being pro-Japanese, Thanh has been pro-French, anti-French, pro-American, anti-American, pro-King and anti-King, but never very antiCommunist. He once dickered with Communism's Ho Chi Minh for armed help in ridding Cambodia of the French. Impatient with what he felt was Sihanouk's excessive tolerance of the French presence, Thanh mounted an armed rebellion against the King three years ago, and might have got somewhere had not King Sihanouk, by dramatically taking "political asylum" in Thailand...