Word: indochina
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Belgrade last week, Marshal Tito's government jubilantly announced that it had accepted a "proposal to establish diplomatic relations" with the Communist regime of IndoChina's Red Leader Ho Chi Minh. Yugoslav authorities regarded the exchange of recognition a matter of "worldwide moment" and a "most sensational victory over the Cominform...
TIME (Dec. 26) had reported that the French army's Chief of General Staff Georges Marie Joseph Revers had been relieved of duty because of a leak of French political secrets to IndoChina's Communists. For three weeks after the report was printed, the French government said not a word. A few French newspapers hinted at serious charges against Revers and his friend, retired General Charles Emmanuel Mast. In the cozy Chez Albert, where France's deputies dine in the shadow of the grimy Palais-Bourbon, hushed conversation turned more & more to I'affaire...