Word: minh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pathetic little ceremony inside Hanoi one evening last week, the French Tricolor was hauled down and handed to a silently weeping colonel. Next day, in well-ordered triumph the first of 30,000 helmeted, green-clad troops of the Communist Viet Minh rolled into the city in Russian Molotov trucks, Russian command cars and jeeps, on bicycles and afoot. Thus IndoChina's ancient capital (pop. 400,000) passed into Communist hands, in starkly simple faithfulness to the Geneva agreement which turned half of Indo-China over to Red rule...
...began nearly eight years before, met it with Oriental reserve. Those who could had already fled, in a melancholy, six-weeks-long exodus which drained off some 40,000, a tenth of Hanoi's population, to havens to the south. When the first of the Viet Minh headed into the city, street crowds uttered only occasional, hesitant cheers. As the trickle grew into a rumbling stream of troops, the Vietnamese poured out from boarded and shuttered houses to shrill greetings. Out came banners proclaiming: "Long Live Sino-Russian Friendship!" From housetops red, gold-starred flags of the "Democratic Republic...
...have bossed Hanoi and its rich hinterlands for nearly 80 years, it was a melancholy occasion to be faced with at best bleak resignation. By the time the last French soldiers withdrew, nearly every useful piece of military equipment had been dismantled and carried off. The first Viet Minh officials to arrive protested that their hospital billets had been stripped bare; the French sent back a few light bulbs, but that was all. "The French are good at retreating," said a grimly admiring allied officer...
...tables generations of Foreign Legionnaires had drunk and sung and bragged. A few French technicians stayed behind to show the Reds how to run the utilities, and a score or so of European priests and sisters remained. The lycée, which counts Vo Nguyen Giap, the wily Viet Minh army chief, as one of its honor grads, also decided to keep school. For the U.S., Consul Thomas J. Corcoran stayed on with a staff...
...down. If he is, there are a few other ways he can solve the nation's ills and still retain the dog-cared image. You can't teach an old dog new tricks might apply to any ex-communist, while the country's enemies, from Hiss to Ho Chi Minh, could be lumped under the heading of dogs in the manager. Although the Administration's critics usually bay at the moon, for those recurring embarrassments, like Senator McCarthy, there's the old wheeze about letting sleeping dogs lie. Any hint of co-existing with Russia could be neatly scotched...