Word: viets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days, Bao Dai's favorite sport (in addition to chasing chorus girls) was tracking down tigers, elephants and gaur (fierce wild buffalo) on foot through the jungle. That took intelligence and guts. Both traits are needed in the fierce jungle of Viet Namese politics, and Bao Dai is displaying both. The Communist radio had predicted that he would be assassinated; the French authorities were so concerned that at public ceremonies they kept the crowds 100 yards from His Majesty and gave him an armored car. But Bao Dai scorned such protection. At Hanoi, which he proclaimed his capital...
...their Russian neighbors do, it will be a sellout. For more than four years, Amerika has been the only U.S. magazine widely circulated in the U.S.S.R. At ten rubles ($1.23), the 50,000 copies of Amerika's Russian edition get thumbed by about 1,000,000 So. viet citizens. In the first Czech issue of Amerika, readers will find 72 pages of reprints from the Russian, ranging from the 4-H Clubs to Radio City, and from Thomas Jefferson to James Thurber...
...preview of what the Communists are trying to do in Southeast Asia is visible in French Indo-China, where Viet Nam's Communist President Ho Chi-minh's forces have been fighting the French for the past three years. In 1937 Indo-Chinese exports amounted to $101 million; last year they were $56 million, in inflated dollars. Actual export tonnage in fiscal 1948 was 400,000 as against 4,000,000 tons before the war-a 90% drop...
...Indo-China, the French were still embroiled in a war (anything but cold) with the "independent" republic of Viet Nam, headed by brilliant, Moscow-trained Ho Chi Minh (he who enlightens). To counteract Ho, they unveiled a new Viet Namese regime of their own under General N'Guyen van Xuan (pronounced soon), which this month was ceremoniously recognized aboard a French cruiser while a band blared and planes roared overhead. Ho was unimpressed. Said he last week: "The only way to gain our freedom is to continue to fight...
Said Tran Nocg Danh, Viet Nam's unrecognized envoy to Paris: "If he negotiates with the French without the consent of his Government, he will be tried for treason...