Word: nam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Regrouping of Forces. All organized Viet Minh forces must be grouped north of the 17th parallel and all French Union forces south of it. In North Viet Nam, French Union forces must assemble in Hanoi, Haiduong and Haiphong, must evacuate the cities within 80, 100 and 300 days respectively. Communist organized forces in the south must withdraw within 80 to 200 days...
...Viet Nam, the only one of the three associated states of Indo-China that had already lost much of its territory to the Communists, these further terms...
Cease-Fire. Each commander shall order his forces to stop hostilities on the following dates: Northern Viet Nam on July 27, Central Viet Nam on Aug. 1 and Southern Viet Nam...
...civilians who leave one zone to live in the other "shall be permitted and helped to do so" by the authority in command. This guarantee should be effective for anti-Communist civilians in those parts of North Viet Nam still under French control: they can be evacuated with the troops. But there seems to be no foolproof provision for any anti-Communists in Viet Minh-held territory (in particular the thousands of Catholics abandoned in the delta...
...snapped Mendès in his best deadline style, "what will be done tomorrow?" South Viet Nam would get its independence, with French "technical assistance"; the French army would remain in South Viet Nam if the Vietnamese wanted it. That was all. There was more applause...