Word: truces
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Near the bamboo conference hut at Trunggia, 25 miles north of Hanoi, the Vietnamese coolies were planting fresh green shoots for a new crop of rice. Communist Viet Minh soldiers watched them from the road. Inside the hut, beribboned French and Vietnamese truce officers faced five Communist officers across a long table. The three Vietnamese fidgeted uneasily in their seats: it was their country whose fate was being decided, but they were forgotten men there...
...name of one of his persecutors. The accused: U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr. In Haymes's deportation hearing, one of his lawyers insinuated in a question to a witness that Brownell himself had ordered Haymes arrested while the crooner relaxed off guard, during a supposed 60-day truce with the Government. At week's end, another bit of Haymes's past caught up with him. This time the persecutor was his former wife, Cinemactress Joanne Dru, who could now have Haymes arrested because he forgot to show up at another hearing, where Joanne had planned...
...prepared to meet the Communists in the small village of Tunggia, halfway between Hanoi and the Red base at Thainguyen, to work out arrangements {e.g., the regrouping of both armies) toward a ceasefire. Even the name of the village, Tunggia, remote and unheard-of, and the hastily built truce hut, had the mocking quality of Panmunjom...
...agreed approach to the Far East. The lack of policy, so obvious in the anti-Communist position in the Geneva talks on Indo-China, extends over the whole area. It includes British recognition of Red China, divergences over Japan's future and the shameful aftermath of the Korean truce...
...demanding all of Indo-China-and on the Communists' own terms. Next day China's Chou En-lai echoed Molotov's every word, rejected the West's plea for an impartial commission of Southeast Asia neutrals, insisted, like Molotov, on settling political issues before a truce was signed. Bedell Smith flung in his face one of Chou's own dictums, spoken in 1945: "Truce is the military counterpart of the political tactic of coalition government. It is a means to an end, not the ultimate objective." After two days of Communist arrogance, even the doggedly...