Word: minh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communists even had their candidate for the job of leading the new conquest. The man: Pridi Phanomyong, a 52-year-old Thai scholar who was respected among Thai nationalists in the manner that Ho Chi Minh was once respected in Indo-China. "For many," said the Bangkok Post, ". . . it must be an uncomfortable awakening...
...South China. This grouping is designed to embrace 1,100,000 Laotians and 3,700,000 Cambodians (many of Thai stock), in addition to the 19 million Thais of Thailand. As such, it would make a handsome Red jewel to set beside a Viet Nam run by Ho Chi Minh...
...they killed 21, wounded 64. Behind their lines, the Communists were already seizing hold: Vietnamese fleeing their rule reported that the Reds had executed several unfriendly village elders, had plundered Roman Catholic settlements. Inside the cathedral at fallen Namdinh, the Communists displayed a portrait of their President, Ho Chi Minh...
...Diem could not gain his time easily. "Monsieur l'Ambassadeur," he told U.S. Ambassador Donald Heath, "our problems are immeasurable. We must consolidate our administration; we must detect Communist spies left behind by the Viet Minh. We have maybe one million people to evacuate from the North, 50,000 from Central Viet Nam, and 40,000 loyal tribesmen from the frontiers. We have to find all these people land, medical care, food, work and a place to live. We need help...
...truce gives the Red Viet Minh time and many potential openings to soften up South Viet Nam (where they have long been ineffectual) before taking it over intact...