Word: viets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Geneva had different meanings for the 100,000-man French Union army, due now for redeployment into South Viet Nam. "Maybe I'll go home for a few months," said the sergeant, "but Paris is so expensive. I'll have to find another war." Said a young German Legionnaire, whose mustache was already tinged with grey: "A friend I have had since Normandy was killed on the road last night. So we lose again, eh?" The German turned to an American: "We've lost before, but you haven't. How do you like...
...North: Geneva's decision reached into the Hanoi office of Dr. Hoang Co Binh, dentist and head of the Committee for the Defense of North Viet Nam. Stoutly, Dr. Binh proclaimed: "Not a single Viet Minh will be allowed into Hanoi until the proper time. And there will be no Viet Minh flags...
...Hanoi mostly awaited the Communists in resignation and fatigue. The Viet Minh would enter in 80 days by the terms of Geneva, and there could be no thought of resistance. In Hanoi the talk instead was of evacuation: the French expected that 50,000 Vietnamese would quit the city, that 200,000 to 500,000 would quit the outlying Red River Delta...
...miles northeast of Hanoi, TIME Correspondent Dwight Martin asked the Vietnamese governor if he would leave. "If I stay here with the Communists," the governor replied, pointing skyward, "I shall stay forever-up there." Then what would happen to Bacninh's anti-Communist villagers? "We are lost. The Viet Minh will exert pressure against the families and the village elders. It will be easy for the Communists. They are the victors. Who can resist the victors...
...Father Dominique, the Vietnamese curé of Bacninh Cathedral, was asked whether he too would head south. "I do not know, I do not know," the Father replied. "The Monseigneur must decide. We have 60,000 of the faithful here in Bacninh; 20,000 are already ruled by the Viet Minh, and for the rest it will be difficult to say. Many may leave-but where are they to go? Their land is here. Their homes are here. And so are the graves of their fathers...