Word: viets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Minh, the goat-bearded leader of the Viet Minh, has not been seen alive by any non-Communist for more than three years and there have been many rumors (some for a time accepted by U.S. intelligence) that he was seriously ill or dead. Last week he proved to be alive and kicking. From a mysterious retreat somewhere in Communist territory, he came to Thainguyen, 40 miles from Hanoi, and lunched with Canadian, Indian and Polish members of the armistice commission. The Indian representative, Subimal Dutt, reported himself very favorably impressed...
...sodden rot of defeat, surrender and demoralization is eating its way through the fragile fabric of earnest little Prime Minister Ngo Dinh Diem's hard-trying but still disorganized South Viet Nam government. Diem's power probably does not extend as far as 30 kilometers from Saigon itself, say some knowledgeable foreign observers, and in many instances not that far. At Mytho, at Baclieu, at Vinhlong and numberless other towns and villages in the south, Viet Minh control is complete and recognized-the presence of nominal officials of the Vietnamese government notwithstanding...
...Viet Minh are agitating with a terrible intensity," said a Frenchman. Said an American: "They are burrowing in, caching their arms. Will they send their troops out in accordance with the Geneva agreement? Like hell they will. What they will do is send out a couple of phony battalions of peasants, accompanied by a few of their better-known cadres. They probably want the cadres to take refresher courses in the north anyway." He shrugged in disgust and despair...
Choose Your Picture. In much of the Cochin China countryside in South Viet Nam a curious duality of administration exists. In Mytho there is a regular government court. But most of the townspeople take their grievances to a Communist court three kilometers outside the town...
...many of them women and children-were killed last week by a hail of rifle fire from a Vietnamese army post, and the Communists got some useful martyrs. But though the triggers were pulled by Vietnamese, the real murderers were Communist agents provocateurs. Goaded and egged on by the Viet Minh, the demonstrators had besieged the post, alternately insulting, threatening and cajoling the Vietnamese soldiers to desert...