Word: viets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...content to have Bidault try to negotiate an end to the Indo-China war. Let the opponents of negotiations negotiate, he said, because they are tougher. But Mendès always insisted that Geneva was folly, that the only way to get peace was through direct negotiation with the Viet Minh. "Really, your policy is incomprehensible," he told Bidault. "You ask Mao to stop aid to Ho. Why should he make you this gift?" Mendès also suspected another motive behind Bidault's policy: Bidault's hope that the U.S. could be persuaded to do what...
...that Indo-China is falling apart, the question is whether any of its three Associated States- Laos, Cambodia and Viet Nam - can survive on their own. All three are technically independent of France in domestic affairs; their own rulers run their own governments, their own civil service, their own courts. But France runs their foreign affairs and has been managing (or mismanaging) their defense...
...Communist Viet Minh has been ineffectual in the smaller states of Laos and Cambodia. But by the terms of a French surrender, the Communists will probably get half, and in due course all, of Viet Nam. French and British negotiators now hope that Laos and Cambodia may be neutralized" and their freedom guaranteed. The three...
...VIET NAM (pop. 23 million...
...Viet Nam is rich in rubber, tin, zinc, iron and coal; it has a notable surplus of rice, and a strategic 1,200-mile coastline. Viet Nam is the prize, the arena where the French and the Viet Minh have contended for the past eight years...