Word: viets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...demanding, and there was a good chance he would soon get, control of the 22 million citizens of Viet...
...while Red China rules by terror and command. Only when Red China shows more than a passing interest in what Nehru considers to be Indian interests (e.g., Nepal, Burma) does Nehru react like the jealous India Firster he basically is. Last week Nehru was actively helping Red China get Viet Nam for Ho Chi Minh, but he was also concerned that the Communists might edge too close to India. So Nehru hoped for Chinese assurances that they would not support the Communists in neighboring Nepal and Burma; he also hoped to persuade Chou to keep the Red Viet Minh...
...Suppose that everybody agreed that Laos and Cambodia should lead their own lives, and that whatever other arrangements were agreed to about Viet Nam should be guaranteed; suppose an Asian circle, consisting on the one hand of China and Soviet Russia and, on the other, of France, America and ourselves -and perhaps India and other countries, too-could guarantee the arrangements arrived at ... Surely it is something worth while trying to get." As for a Southeast Asia defensive alliance, Eden deprecated the U.S.'s urgency by remarking that the idea was "really not a new one ... Its relevance...
...Communist Viet Minh did not bother to launch their offensive against the Red River Delta last week. At Geneva and across the shrouded land of Viet Nam, they were winning the war by default...
...would no more cooperate with Communists than with the French. (A few months later, the Communists murdered one of Diem's five brothers, reportedly by burying him alive.) In August 1949 Diem also refused to join the Vietnamese government of Bao Dai, insisting upon complete independence for Viet Nam and a free hand for himself. "He must have his own way always," said one of his associates. And a second Vietnamese added: "He is a narrow...