Word: indochina
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...INDOCHINA...
...said, "for American senators to proclaim that never, never on any terms will we recognize Red China or permit her entrance into the United Nations." If we could get Red China to withdraw from Korea and permit free elections throughout North and South Korea, to cease intervening in Indochina, and to agree to the independence of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodi, "wouldn't we clearly be willing to recognize Red China and waive opposition to her admission into the United Nations?" he queried...
...seven black days, the West's position totally collapsed. It was destroyed not by the Communists but by the West itself. ¶ Churchill publicly proclaimed that Britain would not lift a finger to save IndoChina until all possibility of making a deal at Geneva had been exhausted. By a deal, the British delegation made clear, they meant partition. ¶In Washington, President Eisenhower talked of a modus vivendi, told his press conference that the West was caught between the unattainable and the unacceptable. The most the U.S. could ask for in Indo-China, he said, was a practical basis...
...INDOCHINA...
...came out hard against the Nehru plan: the plan would create a vacuum; the Communists might take over Indo-China-and Burma was the next nation but one (Siam) away. The Prime Ministers approved Nehru's appeal for a ceasefire, and his suggestion that France must guarantee IndoChina's independence at Geneva-but nothing more. They conceded Nehru's resolution against H-bomb tests, and said they would gladly go along against colonialism. "We wanted to dilute Nehru, not to deflate him," said a Ceylonese afterwards...