Word: viets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French simply pulled back from one-third of the Red River Delta, abandoning 1,600 square miles of densely populated rich rice land. Three Communist Viet Minh divisions leisurely followed up the retreating Frenchmen, exchanging only a few desultory shots with the rearguards. In 72 triumphal hours, the Communists marched into Namdinh (pop. 80,000), the biggest Red prize of the eight-year war; Phuly (pop. 5,000), fortress key to the delta's old southern defense line and Phatdiem (pop. 40,000), heart of a Christian district embracing 570,000 Vietnamese Roman Catholics, fewer than...
Erosion in the Land. "At Namdinh and throughout Viet Nam, the wait-and-see-ists are going over to the Communists for one easily comprehensible reason: the Communists are strong, the West is weak, and the Communists are winning. 'It is not a matter of mind or heart or preference,' explained one weary Frenchman. 'It is simply a matter of safety.' Said a dejected Vietnamese councilman: 'The people do not like the Viet Minh. But what can they...
...power, then disappear. One of the mysteries of Indo-China is how so much U.S. equipment can be dispersed so quickly and so unnoticeably." Parley in the Village. The erosion was almost too far advanced even for Ngo Dinh Diem, the firm-minded new anti-Communist Prime Minister of Viet Nam (TIME, June 28). Diem arrived in Saigon from Paris last week promising independence, land reform and war against corruption-measures that a few months ago might have changed the course...
...destined," he cried, "to open the way to national salvation and to bring about a revolution in all fields." But Diem's own associates were fast losing their confidence. "We cannot hope to defeat the Viet Minh," said one. "The most we can do is try to diminish their influence." French General Cogny, commander of the Delta, wanted to bring in heavy reinforcements and fight it out. U.S. Major General John W. O'Daniel, head of the U.S. military mission, still believed the war could be won, especially if his plan for U.S.-style training of the Vietnamese...
...Tunisia's rich but savage hinterland, so far number about 400 fighters, led by Lazhar Cheraiti, who a year and a half ago was a transient laborer. The French claim that the fellagha were trained across the border in Libya by former French prisoners of the Viet Minh, brainwashed by their Communist captors. The French also say that the Arab League, the Communists and the Neo-Destour are at work with the fellagha, though the independence-seeking Neo-Destour Party stoutly insists it disapproves of violence and excess...