Word: vietminh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Diplomatic sources said the Communist Vietminh apparently masterminded the blasts. They ripped a U.S. Information Agency library, a military bus and a hostel...
Cambodia (pop. over 4,000,000) is a country of Buddhists lying directly in the path of Communist expansion in Southeast Asia. During the Indo-China war, three battalions of Vietminh Communist troops entered Cambodia, and Red China claimed that a "resistance" government was in being. But after last year's general election in which Norodom, stepping down from the throne to lead his own political party, won all 91 seats of the National Assembly, the Communists reversed their tactic. With soft words, Communist Leader Ho Chi Minh suggested a diplomatic exchange with Norodom. Nothing doing, replied Norodom. "Your...
...days before Communist Vietminh troops marched into Hanoi last week (see FOREIGN NEWS), a company of bare-chested Legionnaires marched into a factory and went to work. They smashed huge holes in the brick walls, hauled out all the machines they could carry and loaded them into waiting trucks. Within hours, the prosperous $15 million Brewery & Cold Storage of Indo-China was a wreck, but much of its equipment was headed south into the French zone. Like many another French business, the Brewery had first hoped to stay in Hanoi after the Geneva truce partitioned the country last July...
...could not go on. At 1730, De Castries called GHQ for the last time: "After 20 hours of ceaseless combat, just now man-to-man, the enemy has infiltrated right through our central bastion. Munitions are short. Our resistance is about to be submerged. The Vietminh are only a few yards from the radio where I speak. I have given orders for maximum demolitions. The ammo depots are going up already. Au revoir...
Explaining his organization's view of the French-Vietminh conflict, French said that the way to solve the problem "is obviously not by putting more tanks and gains." But any kind of a desirable solution seems improbable, he added "so long as the Communists insist that their forces gain all the land they're after...