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...Chau, the president of the Thai Federation (Deo Van Lang) and the French regional counselor (Ter-Sarkissoff) planned to beat the Communists at their own guerrilla game. A month's journey by land from Hanoi, they could not expect reinforcements. To the beleaguered French, a French plane dropped 1) three ammunition canisters filled with money, and 2) a case of champagne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: Reds Terrorized | 2/19/1951 | See Source »

...piasters, off a printing press in one of the towns they had captured. Neither the Thais nor the Muongs are a highly developed people-but they know good money from bad. They called the Red piasters "monkey money." Discontent broke out among the Thais and Muongs, and Ter-Sarkissoff's undercover agents made the most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: Reds Terrorized | 2/19/1951 | See Source »

...Chau last week, Regional Counselor Ter-Sarkissoff broke open the case of champagne, split a warm bottle with a TIME correspondent. Looking out upon the peaceable, beautiful country of the Thais and the Muongs, Counselor Sarkis-soff said: "It's really beautiful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: Reds Terrorized | 2/19/1951 | See Source »

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