Word: viets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Blocked by the Soviet Union: Austria, Ceylon, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Japan. Jordan. Nepal, Portugal, Korea. Opposed by the West: Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary. Mongolian People's Republic, Rumania. Up for consideration: Laos, Libya, Viet Nam, Cambodia, Viet Minh, North Korea. Not interested: Switzerland, which thinks the U.N. would "endanger our neutrality...
Scurrying Diplomats. Out Asia way. Indonesia's Premier Sastroamidjojo flew back to Djakarta brimming over with gratitude for the fuss Peking's Communists had made over him. In Hanoi, the Viet Minh's Ho Chi Minh, in an interview with the London Sunday Times, produced his own project for smearing up demarcation lines. He proposed a Bandung-like conference of leaders and intellectuals from the "little nations" of Asia and the West not closely associated with what he called imperialist pasts. They could talk over economic and technical cooperation...
...named a fascinating slate-North Viet Nam, Burma, Indonesia and Siam from Asia; Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Czechoslovakia from Europe. Maybe Japan and Canada might be included, he added blandly. Russia's Molotov, on his way to San Francisco for the U.N. celebration, dropped down on Paris for lunch with Premier Edgar Faure. Reportedly Molotov suggested that Russia and France have many interests in common-such as a belief that a divided Germany is safer than a whole...
...SOUTH VIET...
...second of his country's rebellious warlord sects. Diem sent in two nationalist infantry divisions and four amphibious groups against the Hoa Hao, a rowdy private army of dissident Buddhists who run their own feudal entity-and squeeze the peasants with taxes-in rice-rich western Viet Nam. Premier Diem first offered the Hoa Hao a chance to integrate themselves into the national army and form a peaceful political party, but the Hoa Hao replied by raiding Diem's outposts and blowing up bridges. Ba Cut, commander of the Hoa Hao army, who wears his hair neck-long...