Word: viets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hanoi, the Viet Minh's red and yellow-starred flags hung from stores and warehouses, from shacks and villas, from cycle-taxis that darted along uncrowded boulevards. Portraits of Malenkov, Mao and Ho stared out from the stalls of the peddlers. At main intersections there were bamboo arches of triumph, decked with papier-mâché peace doves and slogans that proclaimed "INDEPENDENCE" or "PEACE" or "PRESIDENT HO FOR TEN THOUSAND YEARS." No exception, no dissent was permitted in Hanoi's show of joy; nobody forgot to display his enthusiasm, or was too lazy to bother...
...Viet Nam, as President Eisenhower recently put it, is a land "temporarily divided by artificial military grouping, weakened by a long and exhausting war, and faced by enemies without and by their subversive collaborators within...
...more populous northern half is being welded together with ruthless Communist efficiency; the southern or free half is rent by feuds, and impotently governed by its honest but ineffective Premier Ngo Dinh Diem. Last week, in an effort to restore some order in South Viet Nam, President Eisenhower dispatched former U.S. Army Chief of Staff General J. Lawton Collins to Indo-China as his special ambassador. It will be Joe Collins' task to try to resolve the feuding between Diem and his generals, to coordinate and overhaul all U.S. aid to the tortured nation, to combat "the dangerous forces...
...have been following with great interest the course of developments in Viet Nam," wrote President Eisenhower to Premier Ngo Dinh Diem of South Viet Nam. Acknowledging the difficulties of presiding over a country "weakened by a long and exhausting war," Eisenhower nonetheless urged Diem to undertake "needed reforms." In return, he held out the prospect of U.S. aid "given directly to your government"- in other words, aid that did not first pass through French hands. It was a friendly, mild-seeming note, yet behind it lay a gathering quarrel between the U.S. and France...
...pattern, at least, is familiar: during the seven years of the Indo-China war, French officials intrigued against Vietnamese governments so cleverly that no genuinely nationalist movement could emerge to challenge the Communists. Unless some kind of order is soon installed in South Viet Nam, said a sad-faced Vietnamese last week, "the Communists need only sit on their chairs and wait for our country to fall...