Word: viets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Airfield, the lieutenant colonel pulled on his overalls and told us: "The operation tonight is called Polo. The drop planes are Banjo One, Two, Three, and so on. Ours is the command plane, but we will also carry a load of 60 parachute flares to drop if the Viet Minh attacks and our comrades on the ground need light for shooting. Our radio identification is Luciole...
...Communists besieging Dienbienphu, said Dulles, are using new radar-controlled antiaircraft guns that are "operated by members of the Chinese military establishment." A Chinese general with "nearly a score of Chinese technical advisers" is at Viet Minh staff headquarters near Dienbienphu. Some 1,000 Red trucks in Indo-China are "driven by Chinese army personnel...
Just 15 miles out of Hanoi, on the crucial supply road to Haiphong, our car is suddenly halted. Trouble ahead in the next village: the Viet Minh have ambushed some trucks and four Frenchmen have been killed. The tanks must clear the road; there will be half an hour's delay. Finally we are allowed to move ahead again, and we meet the tanks heading back to the nearby fort, like fire trucks ready for the next alarm. Before us in the highway sits the ambushed truck, its cab split apart, its load a charred twist of metal...
...heard from men like Commissioner General Maurice Dejean: it is that the French have held successfully this year and can win militarily in two more years; by that time the Vietnamese will have an army good enough so that the French can pull their own troops out, and Viet Nam will have sovereignty almost comparable to that of British Commonwealth nations. At Geneva, this explanation continues, the French only want to find out China's terms for sealing off its border; the French have no intention of capitulating. Implicit in this explanation is the continuance of a certain kind...
...take until 1955 or 1956. If there is no solution at Geneva, French public opinion will want to negotiate with Ho Chi Minh. It is a tragedy because now, if they had a free choice, the Vietnamese would not vote for the Communists. But there is no patriotism in Viet Nam-it is not even a country. The intelligentsia have taken on the worst of the Western ways and have lost the best of their own civilization. Perhaps because I am French I say this. But colonialism is not important any more. Everyone understands that the French want to leave...