Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Infiltrated South Viet Nam (pop. 10½ million) so deeply that effective Viet Minh control now extends through 85% of the country almost to the gates of the capital, Saigon-where the Nationalist administration of Bao Dai is disintegrating. The Viet Minh are also deeply embedded in Laos (pop. 1.1 million), a state theoretically protected by the Manila Defense Pact. The Viet Minh have assassinated 87 Nationalist leaders in South Viet Nam and the Defense Minister of Laos...
...Buddhist monk; he would show up in the Latin Quarter of Paris, explaining to waiters how to prepare his food. In Canton, Ho worked for Borodin, the Russian intriguer who helped undermine China. In Singapore, Ho organized Southeast Asia's Comintern. And when IndoChina's Nationalist Party rebelled against the French in 1930, Ho Chi Minh played it coldly; although he was constantly posing as a Nationalist, Ho and his Reds stood aside and let the Nationalists die. "My itinerary is carefully prescribed," Ho Chi Minh once confessed. "You cannot deviate from the route...
...first time since the "vest-pocket war" began off China's coast, the Reds last week used airplanes against Chiang Kai-shek's island bastions. Nine Russian-built, twin-engined bombers appeared over the Nationalist-held Tachens (200 miles north of Formosa and 15 miles from the Chekiang coast) and dropped more than 40 bombs, killing five persons. Previously, during the September skirmish around Quemoy, the Reds had used artillery only, and Washington concluded that the Communists were exercising prudence to make sure that air power did not tangle with the U.S. Seventh Fleet. Apparently, the Communists...
...increased Communist effort comes at a time when the U.S. is negotiating a defense pact with the Nationalists. The U.S. may spread its defense umbrella to cover more than Formosa and the Pescadores (though perhaps not every Nationalist-held island) if the Gimo in turn agrees to limit his mainland attacks to operations with a defensive purpose...
Refusing the Cypriots even the gesture of a diplomatic conference, the British clamped the nationalist movement under the pressure of anti-sedition laws. But the unrest remains, bolstered by a continuing barrage of propaganda from the Athens radio. While the British fear the loss of defensive bases, the Greeks dream of the day when Cyprus will be free to unite with them. British consuls have justified the tight controls by firing a torrent of singularly weak arguments at the agitators. It is suggested, for example, that a split with Britain might leave the Greek and Turkish forces in Cyprus...