Word: minh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Agitator Ho. At this point, the lines of Bao Dai's destiny first crossed those of his fellow Annamite Ho Chi Minh...
Last January, led by Peking and Moscow, the world's Communist bloc recognized Ho Chi Minh's "Democratic Republic." It was more than the Kremlin had ever done for the Communist rebels of Greece. Over the past several weeks, arms and other supplies were reported passing from Russia and China to the comrades in Indo-China. The stakes in Southeast Asia were big-as big as the global struggle between Communism and freedom...
...rubber production; before World War II, the colony, along with Siam and Burma, was one of the world's three leading rice exporters. Its surplus went to rice-short China, a fact of great significance these days in Communist China's support of Communist Ho Chi Minh. All the raw rubber France needed came from Indo-China. There were other lucrative items: coal, wolfram, pepper, opium (which, to French shame, was sold to the natives through a state monopoly) and many jobs for a white bureaucracy. French politicians called the colony "our marvelous balcony on the Pacific...
...that time the French were up to their necks in a costly campaign to crush Ho Chi Minh and his Communist bid for power. The civil war has cut rice production in half and disrupted the rest of Indo-China's economy. It has tied down 130,000 French troops, about half of the Fourth Republic's army, and thereby weakened the contribution France might make to Western Europe's defense. In lives, the Indo-China war has cost the French 50,000 casualties. In money, it has cost $2 billion-just about the sum of ECAid...
...colonial mistakes. All too often, especially since they put the Foreign Legion and its German mercenaries to the work of restoring order after World War II, they have been arrogant and brutal toward the Indo-Chinese. They are paying for it now, for the bulk of Communist Ho Chi Minh's support comes from anti-French, or anticolonial Indo-Chinese. A sign over an Indo-Chinese village street tells the story; it reads "Communism, No. Colonialism, Never...