Word: minh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...battle for Dienbienphu? Old Soldier Dwight Eisenhower readily obliged, and in the course of his remarks read a dual lecture to the French. One of the greatest problems, he said, is that the defenders (French and Vietnamese forces) are trying to hold a valley from attackers (the Communist Viet Minh) who control the flanking ridges. It was an indirect suggestion that the French pay more attention to the old military axiom: take the high ground. The President went on to recall a remark he made to a visiting Frenchman-presumably General Paul Ely, Chief of Staff of the French Armed...
Douglas also told questioners that "if the U.S. went into Indochina we would alienate all of Asia. The Asians know what the issues are there: colonialism vs. independence." He felt that if a democratic, popularly-supported leader replaced the French authority in Indochina, Minh's Communist forces would be driven back into the hills in a few weeks...
Hang the Consequences. A French victory at Dienbienphu would be a major setback for Ho Chi Minh, a defeat for Communists everywhere. It might also provide the kind of electric stimulus which, on occasion, makes France capable of surprising the world; at the very least, it would act as a tonic for those who insist that the war can still...
...Minus One: French Commanding Colonel Christian de la Croix de Castries calls his staff to a bunker in the heart of Dienbienphu. Four Viet Minh Communist divisions-about 40,000 men -supplied for 113 days by ant lines of coolies, have completed buildup. They are ready to attack De Castries' isolated, 15,-ooo-man garrison. "Messieurs" says De Castries, "please stand by tomorrow...
...shrilling of bugles, troops of the Communist Viet Minh poured onto a saucerlike plateau in the mountains of Indo-China one day last week and launched a crucial battle of the seven-year Indo-China war. Their objective: Dienbienphu, a huge French fortress 175 miles west of Hanoi...