Word: minh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...villa by Lac Leman, three men hunched over a great man of Indo-China late one night last week. One was the Communist Viet Minh's Pham Van Dong; another was France's Premier Pierre Mendès-France; the third was Albert Sarraut, an oldtime French empire builder who had been governor of Indo-China in lordlier days when there were no such irritants as the Viet Minh. Each had a red pencil in his hand. Beneath their hands the map was slashed with red lines, until Viet Nam began to look like a body crisscrossed with...
...Foreign Minister Tran Van Do had announced from time to time that he would never accept partition. But Cambodia had scarcely been heard from. Its delegation had arrived late, made little stir, and had figured little in negotiations, since it had not even been invaded by the Viet Minh as had Laos...
Regrouping of Forces. All organized Viet Minh forces must be grouped north of the 17th parallel and all French Union forces south of it. In North Viet Nam, French Union forces must assemble in Hanoi, Haiduong and Haiphong, must evacuate the cities within 80, 100 and 300 days respectively. Communist organized forces in the south must withdraw within 80 to 200 days...
...authority in command. This guarantee should be effective for anti-Communist civilians in those parts of North Viet Nam still under French control: they can be evacuated with the troops. But there seems to be no foolproof provision for any anti-Communists in Viet Minh-held territory (in particular the thousands of Catholics abandoned in the delta...
...anguished peace," said General Paul Ely, commander of the French. "There can be no real peace without the unity of our country," cried General Nguyen Van Hinh, leader of the Vietnamese. The Viet Minh coldly warned that "remnants of the French and puppet armies still in hiding . . . must present themselves before the People's Administration." North Viet Nam was about to retire behind the Iron Curtain; the South would remain beleaguered...