Word: indochina
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ultimately, the U.S. foots the IndoChina bill: the war so far has cost France more than $2 billion-$71 million more than the total U.S. Marshall Plan aid to France. Whether the U.S. likes it or not, the U.S. is very much in the "dirty war" itself; while that war continues to drain from France what the U.S. puts in, France cannot be expected to pull her full weight in NATO. In Indo-China the battle lines of Asia and Europe merge. This is the crucial point which Douglas MacArthur fought to prove, i.e., that Communism cannot go unchecked...
When he returns to his headquarters next month, he will find IndoChina's war machine waiting for him (little gets done while the boss is away) and for the end of the rainy season, when the Communists are likely to attack again. De Lattre is confident that he can crush the attacks as before-always provided that the Chinese Communists do not directly intervene. His plan, which he is expounding in Washington this week, calls for decisive defeat of Ho's forces...
...worked hard to win over. Nehru's refusal to send an Indian delegation infuriated Dulles (he once got up in the middle of the night to draft a reply to the Premier). But one by one, the Asians sided with the U.S. Said Crown Prince Savang of Laos (IndoChina) : "This document can bring friendship back to the heart of peoples." Ablest Asian spokesman at the conference was Ceylon's delegate, Finance Minister J. R. Jayewardene, a slim, soft-spoken man with a razor-like tongue. It was interesting, said Jayewardene, that Russia wanted to "insure the people...
BATTLE OF INDOCHINA...
...Communists looked for a reliable assassin, picked one Trinh Van Minh, 25, a fanatical member of IndoChina's noisy, party-lining Patriotic Youth Society. Trinh Van Minh was in jail on charges of being a Viet Minh terrorist, but the Patriotic Youth Society put pressure on the Viet Nam government to set him free. French police warned that the Patriotic Youth Society was infiltrated by Communists, and dangerous. But the Viet Nam government, anxious to win the support of the Youth Society, released Trinh Van Minh...