Word: parallelism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Across Indo-China's 17th parallel - the truce line set at Geneva-moved the long, weary procession of refugees from the Communist North. In the South they were received on farms or in improvised tent cities which the U.S. helped supply; most of them will eventually be assigned new land. Among these anti-Communist refugees were 10,000 soldiers of a special type. They looked no different from the other Vietnamese peasants, but they were the remnants of one of the last real church armies in the world: the fighting Catholics of Tonkin, led by round, shrewd Bishop Thaddeus...
Geophysicist K. M. Creer of Cambridge University believes that he has proved it by measuring the magnetism of ancient rocks. Both volcanic and sedimentary rocks, as they are formed, tend to become magnetized by the earth's magnetic field. Their magnetism, though very feeble, is parallel to the magnetic field that formed it, pointing like a compass needle toward the magnetic pole...
...nothing and allow themselves to be involved in no situations which would be likely to cause embarrassment to the Government of their own country . . . This makes the conduct of Mr. Attlee and his colleagues the more amazing and reprehensible." The Economist called Attlee & Co. the "Chiltern Set," drawing a parallel with the famed pre-World War II appeasing "Cliveden Set." The tabloid Daily Sketch called the Laborites "The Yellow Travelers...
...China-style, the SEATO powers would "consult immediately." This was hardly a firm pledge, but at least it would give the U.S. (or other nations) an opportunity to step into such situations if they wished. SEATO's proposed boundaries would extend north to the 21° 30 min. parallel, thereby excluding Formosa from the zone of coalition defense...
...south, plucky nationalist Prime Minister Diem appealed to the 12 million Vietnamese north of the 17th parallel to join a mass migration south-if they could get away-and help win a "psychological victory" over the Communists; he set up a $20 million emergency program (with U.S. help) to move and resettle 700,000 evacuees, including 40,000 loyal tribesmen from the Red China border. He had not only to resist the enemy but to inspire his own people. "If only Viet Nam had a Magsaysay," said one U.S. observer. "Or even a Rhee...