Word: minh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Ho Chi Minh, IndoChina's Red leader, in a roundabout reply to questions from Stockholm's liberal Expresses, announced scornfully that if France, "having learned the lessons of these years of war, wishes to have an armistice, [we] will be ready to meet the French proposal." The conditions? Said Ho: "The French government has to stop hostilities." In Paris, one Cabinet minister remarked that Ho's terms should not be considered, and was sharply rebuked by Premier Laniel's office. The proposal, said the chairman of the Assembly's Foreign Affairs Committee, should...
Laniel therefore wants U.S. and British guarantees of continued military support in Europe, a settlement of her arguments with Germany over the Saar territory, and a free position to bargain with Ho Chi Minh's communist forces in Indo-China...
...great Communist offensive in Indo-China, which had been expected since the monsoons ended in October, has not materialized, probably because General Henri Navarre's aggressive spoiling operations have kept the Viet Minh off balance. Last week Navarre launched the biggest airborne attack since the Langson border raid in July, this time against the Communist base at Dienbienphu. Between the Black River and Laos. This time it was not a hit-and-run raid; the French meant to seize Dienbienphu and hold...
...French had Dienbienphu. Next day they flew in reinforcements, fanned out as far as ten miles from the base, began reconditioning the airstrip. The Viet Minh were reported to be moving up their 316th Division, and it seemed possible that the Communists might break their own tactical rules by fighting a pitched battle for Dienbienphu, rather than let Navarre's men stay in possession...
...break up and destroy the regular enemy forces in Indo-China" immediately sought, in indignation, a quick exit from the fight by threatening to withdraw if the Viet-Namese continued to seek independence instead of throwing their entire strength against the Communists. Ho Chi Minh must have smiled when his enemy went on to announce hopefully that "it would accept a peaceful settlement" in the struggle for Indo-China...