Word: indochina
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...might have hoped that seven bitter years of war in Indochina would teach the French government the folly of resisting the force of an aroused native nationalism. But the hard lessons of imperialism in Asia seem to have been largely lost on France, unlike the other major European colonial powers. Recent events in South Viet Nam indicate that the French are still fighting a vigorous rear guard action to save the last vestiges of their colonial power in the Far East...
...that the priest is too patly saved, but combat soldiers will find nothing unnatural in this result of trial by battle. Author Hardy's terse story is not only credible, it is played out in a setting that is both exciting and topical. Himself a liaison officer in IndoChina at the close of World War II, he has written battle scenes and jungle descriptions that are hotly authentic. Now an accountant, Hardy wrote The Place of Jackals as "an antidote to this rather boring job." No one who reads it will be bored...
Most of Mendes-France's important actions during his Premiership were undertaken to meet grave foreign policy crises facing France during 1954. Indochina, German rearmament, and North Africa all demanded prompt decision; probably no French political leader but Mendes-France would have approached them with such determination. His real concern, however, was with economic problems. Foreign policy was an unfortunate diversion, keeping him from his ambitious project of clearing the deadwood from French industry and agriculture. Largely, Mendes-France's fall was due to the personal hatreds and the petty politics of some members of the National Assembly. Mendes-France...
...parts of the Gaullists and his own Radical Socialists. The real key to political stability may well lie in the Catholic Popular Republican Party and here Mendes-France faces his most vexing problem. At present, the popular Republicans are his bitter enemies, primarily because of his attacks, on their Indochina and EDC policies. But in social and economic policy, Popular Republicans too are a party of the Left. They have pledged themselves to the same goal of social justice which Mendes-France is pursuing. He may yet give France the progressive and vigorous government it needs...
...Socialists' (105 seats in the National Asisembly) refusal to join his government. Mendès now concedes that in his first days as Premier he moved too fast, and did not lay proper groundwork for Socialist cooperation. The issues that attracted them (IndoChina, North Africa, EDC) are now disposed of; some of his proposed economic reforms may prove pure hemlock to the Socialists...