Word: indochina
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the monsoon season waning, Communist-led Viet Minh rebels began to apply rising pressure against scattered French outposts along IndoChina's rugged, 550-mile border with Red China. Four Communist battalions attacked the isolated clay fort at Dongkhe (100 miles north of Hanoi), overpowered its 200 French Foreign Legion defenders in a hand-to-hand fight. They also shelled Thatkhe, ten miles south of Dongkha, while other Communist forces massed near the French-Chinese frontier...
...many of IndoChina's 23 millions, the struggle with Communism is a gigantic dice game, and before they place their bets, the Indo-Chinese want to know who is going to win. My guest's remark contained the soundest piece of advice which could be given the West out here today: the best way to win this particular battle is to demonstrate that you have no intention of losing...
...Asia, as elsewhere, Communism grows through force and deceit. In IndoChina-where Communist Ho Chi Minh's Viet Minh party is carrying on a stubborn guerrilla war against the French-TIME Correspondent Andre Laguerre found people who understood Communism better than many a "sophisticated" Westerner. Laguerre's report...
...perimeter, in Saigon, Indo-China, another of our correspondents very nearly became the innocent victim of six hand grenades flung in his direction last week from a passing car. He was Andre Laguerre, chief of TIME'S Paris bureau, who is in IndoChina for some first-hand reporting on the situation there (see War In Asia...
...Sign of Weakness. IndoChina's other strong man is the Doc Phu Tam,* a wizened little man who is head of the Sureteé Nationale, the political police. Tam's job is to combat the Communist terrorism which now stalks Indo-China. In the first six months of 1950, 14 Europeans, 17 foreign Asians (mostly Chinese) and 362 Indo-Chinese have been assassinated by Communist agents in Indo-China. Said...