Word: viets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Books collected in the current PBH Book and Clothing Drive, extending through Friday, will go to refugee students in South Viet Nam, David C. Baum '56, co-chairman of the Phillips Brooks House Drive Committee, said yesterday...
Before he arrived, rumors reached Washington that Mendès-France was coming as a sort of Peking Tom, that he would propose U.S. recognition of Red China in exchange for a Red Chinese guarantee to restrain the Viet Minh in tottering Indo-China. In the midst of the rumors. Senator William Knowland interrupted the McCarthy censure debate for a speech on foreign policy (see above). But as matters turned out, there was no cause for alarm: Mendès and Dulles quickly agreed that recognition of Red China was not one of the questions they would discuss...
...firmly refused to commit U.S. military equipment for European defense to an international arms control agency; for his part, Mendès could not promise that U.S. matériel would not be used in putting down the North African violence. One major item-U.S. aid for South Viet Nam-was postponed until after General Lawton Collins, the special U.S. ambassador, has reported from Saigon...
Silver-haired General J. Lawton Collins, 58, knew that Indo-China was the graveyard of military reputations. In Saigon, at President Eisenhower's behest, to determine whether the demoralized free half of Viet Nam could be saved from the Communists, Collins resisted a newsman's commiserations. "I've already had one military career," he said unworriedly...
...their side of the 17th parallel, the Viet Minh Communists were violating Geneva at will. French and U.S. military intelligence confirmed last week that the Viet Minh has equipped two new armored divisions, despite the pledge by both sides that they would not reinforce their armies in Indo-China...