Word: minh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plane, Navarre asked the colonel: "What information do you have?" The colonel answered: "The government in France has fallen. I just heard it on the radio." "Well, that's better for them than for me," said Navarre disinterestedly. "But what information have you about the Viet Minh...
Will & Means. That was four months ago. French Union troops, slogging through the steamy jungles and paddy mud, were demoralized after seven years of battle with Red Viet Minh forces that seemed to attack from everywhere, only to fade into nowhere when counterattacked. The governments of Indo-China's three Associated States, Laos, Cambodia and Viet Nam, were taking advantage of the mess to harass France for more and faster independence than France could sensibly give. The truce was on the way in Korea, freeing Communism to turn its attention and resources on the war that Korea had overshadowed...
...enemy side, the pieces added up roughly to this: the Communist forces of goat-bearded Ho Chi Minh. far too large and well organized to be called guerrillas, total about 300,000 men. They are arranged in six regular divisions, under able, boyish-looking General Vo Nguyen Giap. The U.S.S.R. is supplying them with arms, moved by Red China via the railway from Nanning, which runs south into the huge Viet Minh concentration in northern Viet Nam, crucial sector of the war. The Reds are well supplied with artillery, mortars and recoilless cannon, as well as machine guns and automatic...
...Expand French forces and beef up the Vietnamese army (if possible with small additions from Laos and Cambodia) to an overall total of 500,000 men. This number will enable the French Union to contest the control of every village and clearing against the Viet Minh, also release the mobile French Union forces for massive attacks on major Red bases, concentrations and supply lines...
...Washington, as in Paris, in Saigon, in the villages and river settlements of Indo-China, ears perked up last week at word from the jungles that Ho Chi Minh is on the march. In a few days his Red troops launched attacks against 15 French outposts. The long-anticipated big offensive seemed only weeks, perhaps days away. With their new spirit and their new commander, the French Union forces expect to blunt the attack. After that, the best the West can look forward to is a long and costly battle of attrition...