Word: minh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Held back by their dislike and mistrust of the French, the Vietnamese had been slow under Premier Huu's regime to join in the life-or-death fight against Red Rebel Ho Chi Minh's guerrillas. The Premier seemed more interested in nailing down Viet Nam's independence than in promoting a fighting partnership with the French. Bao Dai (and the French) thought the time had come for a stronger man, and the Emperor had constitutional power to make the change. The new man is no stooge of the French, but believes that first things come first...
...army -could afford to joke about death for a change, instead of courting it. There was a lull in battle. Lithuanian Sergeant Rekstis' mortar was silent. At the siege of Quong Lam a few weeks ago, Italians, Vietnamese, Portuguese and Yugoslavs had taken bets on whether a Viet Minh sniper would get Private Mommaire (Belgian, perhaps, or Swiss). Now Mommaire was idly admiring the anchor tattooed on his left arm, and dreaming nostalgically of his years in the navy. Whose navy? No one in Bacninh knew-and in the Legion whose soldiers are meant to die, no one asks...
...Oriental cast to his handsome features. Born in Indo-China, where his father was a high official, and educated in France, Captain Nguyen Van Hinh served France so well that by 1947 he was in command of an air group. In 1949, when the war against the Viet Minh Communists began to get hot, Nguyen Van Hinh's group was sent to Indo-China. Nguyen Van Hinh and his pilots took old Junkers 52 bombers on raids across the Tonkin Mountains. Soon Nguyen Van Hinh was a bigwig in the French Far East Air Command, a leading member...
...that there was nobody to take his place. Who among French generals cut a figure half so dashing as the Lanvin-tailored De Lattre? Without De Lattre's dynamic leadership, what was going to happen to Indo-China? France's fears deepened when, in February, the Viet Minh Communists forced the French out of Hoa Binh, which Marshal de Lattre had so boldly taken. Since that low point, the military situation has steadied under the firm hand of De Lattre's sad-eyed friend and deputy, General Raoul Salan. Last week the French cabinet confirmed Salan...
Gains. In his command position last week, General Salan lashed into two Viet Minh Communist divisions which had deeply infiltrated the 365-mile rice-rich perimeter he holds around Hanoi. His staff claimed 7,324 losses among the enemy's regulars and the capture of 4,428 suspected guerrillas since March 1. In the political field there was a new Vietnamese united coalition government-something that De Lattre had laid plans for-pledged to raise a 120,000-man army against the Communists. In return, Viet Nam hopes to achieve a truly independent place within the French Union, similar...