Word: viets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Defense Minister Rene Pleven, who has been heading a fact-finding mission in Indo-China, left Saigon for Paris this week, and the prospect was that his group would recommend cease-fire negotiations with the Viet Minh Communists. Pleven, generally helpful and sympathetic to U.S. strategic aims, warned that the outcome at Geneva is "unpredictable," and he also said that France would go to the meeting "as a great nation without fear and reproaches, which did not want this war but does not surrender to violence and does not abandon her friends...
...This offspring of Soviet Communism committed a flagrant aggression in Korea ... It is actively promoting aggression against Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia. All nations which are neighbors . . . feel menaced by its scarcely concealed aggressive purposes...
...months ago Viet Nam authorities, strongly backed by public opinion, decided the time had come to revive the sport on its grand old scale. Under the sponsorship of a leading Saigon newspaper and local businessmen, a seven-day race from Saigon through the Mekong Delta and back was planned. Communist leaders in the south damned the race as a capitalist attempt "to induce the youth of the nation to debauchery," and ordered their followers to sabotage it. The sponsors forehandedly asked the protection of the Vietnamese army along the route...
...March, Leriche was put to work on a road that was under daily attack by French bombers. "It was fascinating. One day the B-26s made a series of direct hits on the road, converting hundreds of meters to a mass of rubble. When a Viet Minh officer said it must be repaired for use that very night, we thought he was joking. But before long, thousands and thousands of people began converging on the road. The Communists evidently collared the whole population for miles around, peasants, coolies, children, women with babies, old people, everyone who could walk...
Tears for a Song. For eight months, Prisoner Leriche was quartered in a cluster of straw huts called Camp No. 113, in a valley 50 miles from the China border. It was so remote that the Viet Minh did not bother with barbed wire or close guarding. Of 350 French, Senegalese and North Africans in the camp when Leriche arrived, some 200 died of starvation, beriberi, malaria, dysentery. Yet, grotesquely, Camp 113 was proudly regarded by the Reds as a special operation. It was run by a pair of polished, French-speaking Vietnamese who addressed the prisoners as "Mes chers...