Word: indochina
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...INDOCHINA...
Asked what U. S. policy should be in Indochina, the general, who in 1947 made a special survey of the Far East for President Truman, said that his immediate solution of the problem would be for this country, France, and the United Nations all to promise Indochina her independence. "That would put the natives on our side and refute the Communist propaganda," he asserted...
...Vermont senator, who delivered the Godkin Lectures here in 1949, also said that the situation in Indochina will be "critical for long years in the future," that chances of a $200 raise in income tax exemptions are "very dim" for this year, and that "everything Senator McCarthy says is irresponsible...
...member of the Senate's Finance and Armed Services committees, the Vermont senator criticized the Administration's policy in Indochina as not positive enough. "If we were going to support military action in Vietnam at all, it should have been stronger and more definite," he asserted. Flanders conceded, however, that we can no longer do anything to save Vietnam, where "the desire for independence was so great it led to union with the Communists...
Selective Service officials announced Saturday that the July draft call will be 20 percent higher than the average for the last five months, but denied that the hike had any connection with the current crisis in Indochina...