Word: viets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...disaster in Indo-China left no doubt that three Communists were the Men of the Year in Asia. The victory belonged to Communist China's Premier Mao Tse-tung, his Foreign Minister Chou Enlai, and to Ho Chi Minh, the leader of the Viet Minh. For a considerable measure of recovery from the Indo-China disaster, the free world could thank John Foster Dulles. First Dulles hammered out and pushed through the Manila Pact, which committed eight nations to take joint action against subversion and aggression in Asia...
Despite these attempts to shore up the anti-Communist position, the free world came to year's end with a net loss and a troubled outlook in Asia. There was scant hope that the Communists could be prevented from swallowing up all of Viet Nam. There was great danger in the aura of success that surrounded the Communists in the Far East, where the people want to know: Which side will win? Even in Japan, where the West's good friend, Premier Yoshida, was forced to resign, there was new talk of trade and friendship with Red China...
...VIET MINH GAINING SUPPORT BY DECEIT
...their mustard-colored uniforms and jaunty green berets, the Binh Xuyen of Saigon are probably the most exotic mob of hoodlums in Asia. Four thousand strong, they are the shock troops of the Saigon police, an empire of their own within the South Viet Nam state...
Last week in Hanoi, Sainteny proudly unveiled something he called "an agreement," but which Ho Chi Minh referred to as a "joint declaration between the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam (a self-styled propaganda title) and a delegation of French economic experts." French business firms could "retain present form," it was proclaimed, but only subject to Ho's "sovereignty and legislation." French products could be "freely" sold, but Ho's government orders "must be executed first." French businessmen could "freely" send profits abroad, but the percentages and other such details would be worked out later "by common agreement...