Word: nam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unquestioned, and it had gained him the most notable French popularity since postliberation De Gaulle. Yet the cruel fact of this dynamism was that it had forced through an agreement that consecrated the delivery of 12 million Vietnamese to Communism, and that crippled the new state of South Viet Nam by limiting its national army (thereby necessitating the continued presence of the unpopular French colonial army-to Communist advantage...
...French. "There can be no real peace without the unity of our country," cried General Nguyen Van Hinh, leader of the Vietnamese. The Viet Minh coldly warned that "remnants of the French and puppet armies still in hiding . . . must present themselves before the People's Administration." North Viet Nam was about to retire behind the Iron Curtain; the South would remain beleaguered...
Geneva had different meanings for the 100,000-man French Union army, due now for redeployment into South Viet Nam. "Maybe I'll go home for a few months," said the sergeant, "but Paris is so expensive. I'll have to find another war." Said a young German Legionnaire, whose mustache was already tinged with grey: "A friend I have had since Normandy was killed on the road last night. So we lose again, eh?" The German turned to an American: "We've lost before, but you haven't. How do you like...
...North: Geneva's decision reached into the Hanoi office of Dr. Hoang Co Binh, dentist and head of the Committee for the Defense of North Viet Nam. Stoutly, Dr. Binh proclaimed: "Not a single Viet Minh will be allowed into Hanoi until the proper time. And there will be no Viet Minh flags...
...South: At 3 a.m. on July 22, Geneva's decision reached into Saigon's palm-shaded Palais Gialong, 400 miles south of the 17th parallel. A light burned in a first-floor office. Disillusioned and sleepless, Viet Nam's Prime Minister Ngo Dinh Diem opened the cablegram from Geneva and read...