Word: nam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Egypt, and that Nasser, who now has shiny new Soviet guns to replace them, has turned over to the Algerians. Diplomatically, the F.L.N. has had Soviet bloc support in the U.N., and its newly proclaimed state has been formally recognized only by Red China, North Korea, North Viet Nam and Outer Mongolia among non-Moslem states. (Soviet Russia, playing a devious game in hopes of keeping its influence in Paris, has yet to recognize...
Some misguided persons have said that Quemoy is nothing to become excited about. They said the same about South Korea, about Viet Nam, about Lebanon...
...week, seeing himself about to be shoved outside again, Prince Souphanouvong rose in the Assembly to deny that he was a Communist. Answered Phoui smoothly: "I did not definitely say the Prince was one. I simply wondered why he had sent 100 Laotian students to study in North Viet Nam and 300 to study in Red China, including his own children." Phoui was excluding Communists, he went on, because, "a horse cannot have two riders-one going right and one left...
...arrived as the diplomats were gathering to carve up Viet Nam. He pitched his green tent on a patch of lawn outside the Palais des Nations. To protest the division of his homeland, he went on a hunger strike, but the diplomats purring past in their black cars paid no attention, and only blood transfusions saved Vo's life. After his recovery, Vo-a teacher in Viet Nam, where the French often jailed him for his nationalist views-wangled accreditation as a newsman, commandeered a desk in the Palais, and started his own newsletter (in French) to campaign against...
...appeals bear no fruit, I shall leave Geneva and go to my cave in the Bernese Oberland near Fribourg. I will then start a new fasting period, this time unto eternity." Newsmen at the Palais des Nations guessed that Vo would continue his curious protest-just as Viet Nam would go on being partitioned...