Word: minh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When he could, Bidault stood off the cocky Communists with the only weapon left to him-native wit. When Tep Phan, Foreign Minister of Cambodia, denounced the Viet Minh invasion of his country and produced a telegram reporting the murder of three Cambodians by Viet Minh rebels, Molotov was scathing. "We have heard about this telegram, but we haven't seen it," he declared scornfully. The Cambodian minister waved the telegram aloft. "Now we have seen it, but we still haven't read it," snapped Molotov, to the laughter of the Communist delegations...
Laniel first took up Dienbienphu: "The defeat must be explained by a sudden change in Viet Minh war methods, brought about with Chinese aid . . . The battle of Dienbienphu marks a turning point in the evolution of Viet Minh military strength. Our garrison had been caught by surprise." Snapped a Socialist Deputy:"We are still surprised...
...Dienbienphu writhed in its last agony, the Viet Minh representatives arrived in triumph. They were met by China's Chou Enlai, Russia's Gromyko, and North Korea's Nam II, while a French aide frantically telephoned the Quai d'Orsay: "Send me three Vietnamese in a hurry! Otherwise we shall produce my cook-he's a Vietnamese...
...Viet Nam. But with most Frenchmen ignorant of the pitfalls in such a ceasefire, and impatient for peace, Bidault would find it difficult to reject it out of hand. Commented Bidault: "Very able and very specious. It would mean the complete swallowing of Indo-China by the Viet Minh...
...Viet Minh's ack-ack spat up at him, Earthquake made the wide circling letdown to 1,500 ft., lumbered across the deep valley until the "kickers" shoved the load out through the big rear door over the ever-shrinking drop zone. Four times Earthquake's plane was hit. Once a slug cut his elevator controls, and he had to fly home on the trim tabs. Reported Earthquake cheerfully: "We could make it go up or down, but never stay level. We went home like a kangaroo...