Word: viets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Antagonism & Deception. Since the Geneva settlement a bare four months ago, the Viet Minh Communists have...
...Imposed an unshakable authority over North Viet Nam, whose people were supposed to decide their future for themselves in free elections...
...Infiltrated South Viet Nam (pop. 10½ million) so deeply that effective Viet Minh control now extends through 85% of the country almost to the gates of the capital, Saigon-where the Nationalist administration of Bao Dai is disintegrating. The Viet Minh are also deeply embedded in Laos (pop. 1.1 million), a state theoretically protected by the Manila Defense Pact. The Viet Minh have assassinated 87 Nationalist leaders in South Viet Nam and the Defense Minister of Laos...
Stewpans & Silverware. Ho Chi Minh, dedicated Communist, is a matchless interplay of ruthlessness and guile. Before he was nine, in the central Viet Nam province of Nghean, Ho was carrying messages for his father's anti-French underground.* In 1911 he shipped out of Indo-China as a cabin boy on a French vessel, so that he could learn the foreign techniques of revolution and "come back to help my countrymen." He was not yet a Marxist, but already showed signs of an ascetic, fanatic single-mindedness...
...Indo-China. In what amounted in Asian eyes to a crowning loss of face, the Vichy-French agreed to cooperate with the Japanese. With flexibility and imagination, Ho patched together a "United Front" of Communists and Nationalists to harass both Frenchmen and Japanese. Ho called the new party the Viet Minh...