Word: minh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under the terms of Geneva, the Viet Minh Communists must get out of their old positions in South Viet Nam in phased withdrawals just as the French are gradually pulling out in the north. A fortnight ago the time came for the Communists to leave Camau (pop. 900,000), an area the size of Connecticut on the southern tip of free South Viet Nam. The Communists had ruled Camau since 1945, and when their 30,000 troops moved off north in Russian and Polish transports, they left a sharp test for South Viet Nam's Premier Ngo Dinh Diem...
...Village. In Bahoi, a Camau community of 150 thatched huts beside a canal, it took an incoming Vietnamese lieutenant half an hour to muster up 150 villagers. The men stood impassively around him; the women peered out from shadows. "Among you are people friendly to the Viet Minh," the lieutenant said, "but look at the poverty and disease around you . . . The Viet Minh do nothing for the people. The Viet Minh are only interested in themselves and in bloodshed." The lieutenant's men began to hand out paper Vietnamese flags. Filipino doctors showed off wonder drugs and offered treatment...
...April 1954, King Norodom defended Cambodia's new freedom against a determined Viet Minh invasion; in July he instructed his delegation at Geneva to hold out for his right to seek alliance with the U.S. and to rearm. After the treaty signing was delayed for five hours, Chou En-lai and Molotov gave...
...Viet Minh propaganda line on the 800,000 Vietnamese who have fled to the south is that they were forced by their priests to leave, and are now anxious to return. In Hanoi, the Communists faked hundreds of complaints from refugee families and sent them to the International Control Commission, to divert the commission from complaints of Viet Minh infractions in the north. Last week, in two white jeeps and a black Citroën, a team of truce officers (an Indian, a Canadian and two Communist Poles) drove into a large Roman Catholic refugee settlement at Lacan, about...
Some refugees grabbed axes and knives and tried to attack the few Viet Minh observers on duty with the commission. Women hurled rotten eggs. One Vietnamese kid seized a Viet Minh officer's hat and ripped off the yellow-starred badge. The embarrassed Communists soon learned why nobody among the 15,000 refugees asked to be returned: the Communists had once captured one of their priests and in a public execution had driven seven long nails into his head...