Word: pignone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Said French High Commissioner Léon Pignon in Saigon last week: "What is happening in Korea is of far more importance to the situation in Indo-China than what is happening in Indo-China." Even while the Americans were winning in Korea and it was widely assumed that the Communist Chinese would not dare tangle with the U.S., the West's chances of holding Indo-China seemed dubious (TIME, Nov. 27). Last week, after the shattering news from Korea, French authorities ordered the evacuation of all French women & children from gravely threatened Hanoi and the Red River delta...
High Commissioner Pignon last week called for all Western powers to organize a united front against the Reds in Southeast Asia. It was a little late in the day. Plainly, the Chinese Reds could take Indo-China, the gateway to Southeast Asia, any time they chose...
...year. He has made some progress, but it is slow and the difficulties are enormous. The French have promised his government more authority, but they are vague in making good and sometimes stupidly petty. One point of friction between Bao Dai and French High Commissioner Léon Pignon concerns the high commissioner's residence in Saigon. It is the old imperial palace, and the symbol, in native eyes, of paramount place. Bao Dai wants it for his own use, and he stays away from the city lest he lose face by residing elsewhere. The French, with bureaucratic pigheadedness...