Word: minh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Communist Ho Chi Minh's army, after seven weeks of success, has the French forces in northern Indo-China bottled up around the cities of Hanoi and Haiphong. A full-scale attack is expected. Are the French strong enough to hold out? Seeking an answer to this and related questions, TIME'S London Bureau Chief Eric Gibbs flew into Hanoi last fortnight...
...French forces are outnumbered 2 to 1 in the crucial northern theater. Against Ho Chi Minh's 70,000 Communists the French have less than 40,000 men. The rest of the French army of 166,000 are garrisoning southern IndoChina or are in supply services. In fire power, unit for unit, French and Communist forces are evenly matched. Ho now has heavy artillery, no air force. But the Communists are building airfields on both sides of the Chinese border. A French airman has reported seeing six or seven enemy armored cars or tanks at Caobang. French armor...
...present, China is actively supporting the Viet Minh rebel forces with men and weapons, so that the French are waging a losing war to maintain the unpopular Bao Dai regime...
...Minh's advancing Communists closed a siege ring around Laokay, last French outpost in northern Indo-China. By one of history's ironies, the Vichy French, with Japanese consent, had built up the fortress at Laokay during World War II. Then, in the postwar years; Nationalist Chinese occupation forces had destroyed it. Now, only partly rebuilt, and held by a thin garrison of Foreign Legionnaires, Moroccans and Vietnamese, Laokay looked untenable. It was under Communist mortar fire. Its abandonment and the retreat of its garrison 160 miles down the Red River valley to the Hanoi-Haiphong beachhead seemed...
...setback in Indo-China gave the Communists and fellow travelers a chance to howl for an end of the war and a negotiated peace with Viet Minh Boss Ho Chi Minh (see WAR IN ASIA...