Word: minh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mind," explained the Prime Minister. To push his Five Principles, Nehru will soon take off for Peking to see Mao Tse-tung. On his way, he will display his nonaggression samples to Burma's Prime Minister U Nu in Rangoon, also stop in Hanoi (the Communist Viet Minh will be installed there by that time) in the hope of seeing Ho Chi Minh...
...French-schooled Vietnamese and a onetime Trappist monk. His flock was half a million farmers who lived in the rich Tonkin coastal area. Le Huu Tu dotted his little theocracy with schools, seminaries, orphanages, and cathedral-sized churches. He walked a tricky tightrope of diplomacy, between the Viet Minh revolutionists, the Vietnamese loyalists and the French colonials...
...officers had high praise for these tough peasant-soldiers who could fight in waist-deep water, buffeted by wind and rain, living on no more than a slim rice ration and an occasional frog caught in the paddyfields. They moved stealthily in and out of the villages, spotting Viet Minh spies, harassing the enemy by night and playing the part of noncombatant peasants by day. In one sector the sister of a priest led a group of women in dark brown cotton uniforms, their large pockets always containing a few hand grenades...
...Vietnamese police and courts. The Communists were more industrious. In the neighboring kingdom of Laos, they assassinated Defense Minister Kou Voravong with a shot in the back, hurled hand grenades into the house of the Foreign Minister. Unless the Diem-Hinh fight was quickly settled, the Viet Minh would not have to bother with hand grenades in Viet...
...Communists returned some 15,000 prisoners; the French sent 63,000 Viet Minh captives back to Communism. This left unknown the fate of about 25,000 French Union troops, including 20,000 Vietnamese, and the Communists showed no sign of accounting for them. Among those freed by the Reds were five U.S. Air Force technicians, captured while absent without leave and swimming at a beach...