Word: nam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Last Stand. At 1000, the Communists won two more outposts in Eliane. At 1200, they went for the last three French positions on the east bank of the Nam Youm River. By 1600, the Reds were storming the French center. De Castries radioed GHQ: "The violent barrage from mortars and artillery continues. The Viets are infiltrating massively through the strongpoints on the west." De Castries also spoke briefly to his wife, Jacqueline, who waited with the generals for the outcome. "Have faith for our wounded," he asked her. Then, "Au revoir...
There was confusion and there was calculated delay. When the Communists finally agreed to a conference including the three Associated States (Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia) provided the Communist Viet Minh were invited, and agreed to discuss a battlefield truce at the conference, Bidault discovered that no representatives of the three Associated States were on hand (he had not bothered to discuss the situation with them seriously before going to Geneva...
...Dienbienphu writhed in its last agony, the Viet Minh representatives arrived in triumph. They were met by China's Chou Enlai, Russia's Gromyko, and North Korea's Nam II, while a French aide frantically telephoned the Quai d'Orsay: "Send me three Vietnamese in a hurry! Otherwise we shall produce my cook-he's a Vietnamese...
...Free" elections, not only in Viet Nam but also in Laos and Cambodia, without outside supervision. The Communists would get half the seats in the electoral bodies, giving them effective control...
...Communists were grabbing for Laos and Cambodia, as well as Viet Nam. But with most Frenchmen ignorant of the pitfalls in such a ceasefire, and impatient for peace, Bidault would find it difficult to reject it out of hand. Commented Bidault: "Very able and very specious. It would mean the complete swallowing of Indo-China by the Viet Minh...