Word: minh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...backing, told how he outlined his plan to the Defense Committee in July 1953, pointing out, among other things, that he did not have enough troops to defend Laos. Four days later details of what he said were published in the left wing weekly L'Observateur. The Viet Minh duly invaded Laos. They were unopposed. In May 1954, soon after the fall of Dienbienphu, Chief of Staff General Paul Ely outlined France's catastrophic military situation to the Defense Committee. Two days later L'Express (edited by Jacques Servan-Schreiber and then in stout support of Mend...
...most telling sign of Diem's increasing strength was the Communist failure to make a threatened show of force. Despite scattered terrorism (an election official in Mo Cay was murdered by Viet Minh agents), the election was carried out in orderly fashion. As their first official act, the new Assemblymen repudiated the Geneva agreement (signed by France but not by the Vietnamese), which provides for nationwide elections next June. South Viet Nam rightly argues that no free election could possibly be allowed in the more populous Communist north, and a rigged one would give the Communists a chance...
Since 1951, Pibul has used his control of the legislature to consolidate and strengthen his forces in fear of Pridi's possible return to power with the aid of neighboring Chinese and Indo-China communists a la Ho Chi Minh. Pibul's cause has been considerably helped by U.S. economic and military aid which he secured after February 1950 by abandoning Thailand's traditional neutralism to recognize Bao Dai's Viet Nam government. With well over $50 million in U.S. military aid, he has built up a trained army of slightly over 50,000 men. Meanwhile, General Phao's police...
...French uniform, professionals and veterans who had fought for France in Europe and Indo-China. Only the officer in command and a scattering of other ranks were French. Among the 80 Moslems was Corporal Cheraf Abd el Krim, who in Indo-China had been captured by the Communist Viet Minh and then released...
...cannot indefinitely rule Black Africa's 25 million natives in the old way. And they have had warning. Last May Day, Communist-led nationalists touched off weeks-long rioting in the Cameroons; their exiled leader Um Nhobe is already claiming the title of "The Cameroonian Ho Chi Minh...