Word: minh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years. It started as a slow guerrilla nuisance, with none of the dramatic shock of the Red attack in Korea, and at first the free world, including France herself, looked on it as a dubious cause. The Indo-Chinese Reds, led by a wily, veteran Communist, Ho Chi Minh, pretended with some success to be patriotic nationalists, rising against the yoke of French imperialism. In France itself, Communists and fellow travelers loudly berated "the dirty war," sneered at their countrymen who returned from the Indo-China theater, and sabotaged arms shipments to the French forces -then only a few thousand...
...turned Indo-China into a ledger of death and liability. In six years the French army in Indo-China lost 31,000 killed and missing. Today, 240,000 men, amounting to a third of France's armed forces, are tied down in the war against the Red Viet Minh-which means that, until that war is over, they are lost to Western Europe's defense...
...Will Be Led . . ." Early last December, about the time the Chinese Communists were sweeping down through North Korea from the Yalu, Indo-China seemed all but lost. Ho Chi Minh's forces, newly equipped by Red China, drove the French into a pocket on the Red River delta around Hanoi and Haiphong, were shifting from guerrilla raids to frontal attack, and boasting that they would take
Vietnamese were pretty skeptical onlookers in the French struggle against Ho Chi Minh; they doubted whether that struggle had much to do with their own freedom. The Communist record in China and Korea shook their doubts, but still it seemed to them that the French cause in Indo-China was, at best, the lesser of two evils; proud Viet Nam nationalism could not forget the arrogant French colonialism of the past. Some of the bitterest criticism of France came from the native intelligentsia who spoke the purest French. Many joined Ho Chi Minh's camp. Many more played...
...assurances that the old colonialism was dead. He exhorted village elders: "Attentisme, the double game, treason, are at an end . . . You are at war, and in war to compromise is treason . . ." He told the nation's youth: "Stand up like men . . . If you are Communists, join the Viet Minh . . . But if you are patriots, fight for your country, because this war is your...