Word: viets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spur exports, 37 major heavy-industry companies formed the Japan Technical Cooperation Co., dispatched technical experts to India and Indonesia to explore markets for power and oil equipment, signed technical cooperation contracts with Viet Nam and the Burmese Defense Department. Some industrial exporters, however, feel that if nationalist-minded Southeast Asian countries restrict Japanese trade, or if Western European and Soviet competition gets too tough, Japan would turn to Red China to keep its exports rolling. Already Japanese businessmen are clamoring to exchange ships, trucks, bulldozers, locomotives, generators and other machinery with Red China for iron ore and coal...
Foreign Policy. Ike's "peace" speech stated "only half the facts." "When [the President] pointed with satisfaction to 'the free nation of Viet Nam' he left out the fact that half of that nation . . . has been lost to the Communists. When he talked of defending Formosa . . . he must have forgotten that . . . President Truman [first] sent the Seventh Fleet to defend Formosa . . . [His] passing reference to Suez gave no hint of the awesome fact that within the past few months, Russia has gained the foothold in the Middle East she has sought for centuries...
Last week a liner glided down the pistachio-colored Saigon River bound for France with more than 1,000 Eurasians on board. Among them: toothless Louis Loupy and his 14 Eurasian children, the biggest French family in Viet Nam. Many aged parents of adult metis went along with their children, mumbling prayers as they departed the land of their birth. Almost none of the passengers had ever been to Europe before; many of them spoke only Vietnamese...
...flew off to Paris with 87 abandoned Eurasian orphans who will join 3,000 orphans already being cared for by the French. In the filthy, overcrowded Centres d'Accueil in Saigon, 3,000 more Eurasians are waiting to leave. But most of the 100,000 Eurasians left in Viet Nam will have to stay behind and learn to adjust to their new status. No one hereafter can go to France unless he is legally recognized by a French father, and soldiers are notoriously forgetful...
...departing French troops, to their surprise, found themselves affectionately cheered. The French government still spends money on Vietnamese agriculture and the maintenance of 300 teachers in free French schools. The Cercle Sportif, once snootily for Europeans only, took in Mrs. Ngo Dinh Nhu, the attractive First Lady of Viet Nam (she is the bachelor President's sister...