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After stressing the military, strategic, and ideologic importance of the Eurasian land mass, Rostow went on to predict that the central issue of the future would be whether the older West could live in harmony with the never Asia. "The answer may well depend on whether the U.S. actively participates in the Asian adventure or merely sits by and comfortably observes her modernization," he said...
...days when the tricolor flew over Indo-China, there was a distinct advantage in being a metis-the offspring of a foreigner and a Vietnamese. France generously granted citizenship to any Vietnamese with even a drop of French blood. Slant-eyed Eurasians, born of French soldiers or colons, learned in school that "our ancestors were the Gallic people." Eurasian men learned to drink cognac and vin rouge, the oftimes beautiful Eurasian women to wear Chanel perfume and Paris gowns. Vietnamese of mixed blood got the best jobs, were always considered a few steps above their fellow countrymen...
During the Indo-Chinese war, when the countryside was invaded by African troops and by a Foreign Legion containing more Germans than French, the garrison towns were filled with a polychromic and polyglot collection of youngsters born of every shade of father. The Eurasian population quadrupled, and a new word had to be coined: Africasians. Many girls with catholic tastes produced several children of mixed blood-each one a different color. Simply by bringing her baby for a cursory examination, a Vietnamese mother could get a "technical certificate of white race" that entitled the youngster to free care and education...
Last week a liner glided down the pistachio-colored Saigon River bound for France with more than 1,000 Eurasians on board. Among them: toothless Louis Loupy and his 14 Eurasian children, the biggest French family in Viet Nam. Many aged parents of adult metis went along with their children, mumbling prayers as they departed the land of their birth. Almost none of the passengers had ever been to Europe before; many of them spoke only Vietnamese...
...days later a French DC-4 flew off to Paris with 87 abandoned Eurasian orphans who will join 3,000 orphans already being cared for by the French. In the filthy, overcrowded Centres d'Accueil in Saigon, 3,000 more Eurasians are waiting to leave. But most of the 100,000 Eurasians left in Viet Nam will have to stay behind and learn to adjust to their new status. No one hereafter can go to France unless he is legally recognized by a French father, and soldiers are notoriously forgetful...