Word: minh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rearmed West Germany. So argues an increasing number of politicians, whose spokesman, Pierre Mendés-France, came close to being Premier five weeks ago. Watching the U.N. negotiating with the Communists in Korea, they feel that there can be no dishonor in opening negotiations with the Viet Minh Communists...
...announcement personally, but had a spokesman read it to newsmen: "We shall give back to our troops the mobility and aggressiveness they have sometimes lacked. Our units have become too heavy. Certainly our troops have preserved their supremacy in pitched battle-when they are offered it by the Viet Minh. But this is not enough. Henceforth our troops will seek the enemy in the very heart of their jungle and paddies. They will impose battle on the enemy . . . Our infantry must have confidence in itself, in its weapons and its officers. There may be a real problem of confidence among...
...Party member for as long as anyone could recall, became the first U.S. newsman to get behind enemy lines. Joe Starobin, a U.S. citizen who went abroad more than two years ago and recently attended Red China's Peiping peace conference, went from Red China to Communist Viet Minh territory in Indo-China...
Once there, Starobin faithfully followed the party line on Indo-China but he did clear up one point. For more than two years no Westerner has seen Ho Chi Minh, leader of the Communist forces. Wrote Starobin: "The highest points of my voyage . . . were two evenings in the company of 63-year-old Ho Chi Minh." As Starobin described him, Ho Chi Minh is "a rather tall man . . . His back is now slightly hunched, greying hair recedes from a broad forehead, and piercing eyes look out over high cheekbones. He wears the oriental wisp of a beard, and his hearty...
...French army in Indo-China is a hard-bitten professional outfit, commanded by first-rate career officers. It has superior equipment. Why then have the Viet minh Communists overrun most of northern Indo-China? Last week General Raoul Salan, capable commander of French Union forces in Indo-China, near the end of his tour of duty, gave an interview explaining how the French operate...