Word: minh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French simply pulled back from one-third of the Red River Delta, abandoning 1,600 square miles of densely populated rich rice land. Three Communist Viet Minh divisions leisurely followed up the retreating Frenchmen, exchanging only a few desultory shots with the rearguards. In 72 triumphal hours, the Communists marched into Namdinh (pop. 80,000), the biggest Red prize of the eight-year war; Phuly (pop. 5,000), fortress key to the delta's old southern defense line and Phatdiem (pop. 40,000), heart of a Christian district embracing 570,000 Vietnamese Roman Catholics, fewer than...
...telling the Assembly: "One day you will be forced to call on French conscripts to win the war in Indo-China. By the time you do it, it will be too late to win the war. You will also be forced to negotiate the settlement with Ho Chi Minh's Communists, but by that time it will be too late...
...have Bidault try to negotiate an end to the Indo-China war. Let the opponents of negotiations negotiate, he said, because they are tougher. But Mendès always insisted that Geneva was folly, that the only way to get peace was through direct negotiation with the Viet Minh. "Really, your policy is incomprehensible," he told Bidault. "You ask Mao to stop aid to Ho. Why should he make you this gift?" Mendès also suspected another motive behind Bidault's policy: Bidault's hope that the U.S. could be persuaded to do what the French alone...
...Communist Viet Minh has been ineffectual in the smaller states of Laos and Cambodia. But by the terms of a French surrender, the Communists will probably get half, and in due course all, of Viet Nam. French and British negotiators now hope that Laos and Cambodia may be neutralized" and their freedom guaranteed. The three...
...Viet Nam is rich in rubber, tin, zinc, iron and coal; it has a notable surplus of rice, and a strategic 1,200-mile coastline. Viet Nam is the prize, the arena where the French and the Viet Minh have contended for the past eight years...