Word: minh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Indo-China. In a series of carefully mortised negotiations from Saigon to Washington to Paris, Dulles persuaded the French government to promise General Henri Navarre enough troops to carry out "the Navarre Plan" for defeating the Communist-led Viet Minh rebels. The U.S.'s quid for France's quo: a promise of $385 million in aid over the next year for the war in Indo-China. Under Dulles' pressure France also gave assurances of independence to the native states of Laos, Cambodia and Viet Nam. This meant that Indo-Chinese nationalists were no longer faced with...
Perhaps, said Schumann, Russia and Red China would be willing to discuss a negotiated Indo-China peace at the impending Korean peace conference, or right after it. "Certain unofficial declarations," said he, "might have led to the thought that the two powers which . . . inspire and arm the Viet Minh [Communist] rebels were disposed to consider the opening of negotiations to put an end to the war." From France, Schumann's boss,Premier Laniel, uttered similar sentiments. "A strong people is not dishonored by negotiating," said the Premier...
...Schumann's remarks and heard the hasty explanations of French officials,U.S. diplomats calmed down. Paris was still solidly behind General Henri Navarre's "We must attack" program for Indo-China, the French explained, but Paris was also hopeful that successful military operations might force Viet Minh Leader Ho Chi Minh, and his Russian and Chinese mentors, to give up the war and accept terms favorable to the Western powers and the three Associated States of Indo-China...
...biggest and most important of the Indo-Chinese states, Viet Nam, was not so easily calmed. Assured at last of independence from France once the Communist threat is erased, the Vietnamese were in no mood to see their independence fall prey to a still strong and unreformed Ho Chi Minh. "The only way to end the war," said Viet Nam's Premier Nguyen Van Tarn, "is to beat the Viet Minh militarily and disperse their armies . . . Negotiations would have the effect of giving the Viet Minh an enormous advantage over...
...Reds cannot be dealt with around a council table; a Korea-style truce would, more than Korea, represent defeat. There is no battle line behind which they can be confined by armed force or ultimatum. Even if the Navarre Plan goes ahead on oiled bearings, the Viet Minh probably can never be wiped out to the last unit. But with an aggressive plan aggressively carried out, the defenders can hope to show the Communists they cannot win, to pound and slash them until they finally will simply stop fighting-as the Greek Communist guerrillas did in the Greek civil...