Word: viets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...course the whole country is gone," said a French journalist. Others are bitter. "These people have no appreciation, no understanding of all we have done for them," said a Frenchwoman on a terrace, sipping lemonade. Commissioner General Paul Ely is faithfully working with the U.S. to strengthen South Viet Nam, but others are not. "They treat Indo-China," complained an American, "like a Frenchman treats a mistress in whom he's losing interest. He doesn't want her for himself, but he gets sore if anyone else shows interest...
...once more getting involved. President Eisenhower last week sent General J. Lawton Collins, onetime Army Chief of Staff, to South Viet Nam to see what could be done. "Lightning Joe" Collins found himself in a devil's brew of cynicism, intrigue and despair. His own role was difficult. He would not be able to give orders; he would only be able to recommend, pressure and persuade. U.S. officials on the scene would like the French to recall their mission from Hanoi and quit dealing with Ho Chi Minh, to call the Vietnamese generals off Diem...
...itself is plagued with doubts: the Pentagon does not want to get bogged down upon the Asian mainland; the State Department is unwilling to commit U.S. prestige too deeply in South Viet Nam if the cause is already lost. Under the terms of the Geneva truce, all-Viet Nam elections are scheduled to be held in 1956, with the winner to take the entire country. As of today, that winner would be Ho Chi Minh. The Communist North, organized by tyranny, would easily out vote a South disrupted by chaos...
...37th anniversary of Russia's October Revolution, Ho Chi Minh proclaimed: "Today we have here in the East more than half the people in the world, together with the Soviet Union in the struggle . . . This is an extremely mighty force, which becomes mightier and mightier." Yet from North Viet Nam, since Geneva, about 450,000 Vietnamese have escaped through chinks in the new Viet Minh monolith, leaving the antiseptic tyranny of Uncle Ho for the South's cha otic freedom. The articulate among these huddles of refugees complain that the Viet Minh has destroyed the customs and friendlinesses...
...lives wrapped in cotton bundles, the refugees headed south - aware that their very act of leaving might be their death warrant if Uncle Ho ever caught up with them. Last week several thousand refugees, fleeing from the Communist interior, got trapped on a sandbar off the coast of North Viet Nam. Before them lay the sea. Behind them lay the Communist land of compulsory joy. In frail craft, the braver, stronger ones made it out to the three-mile limit, where a French aircraft carrier waited to pick them up and take them south to freedom. But the others...