Word: indochina
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Geneva the ill-fated conference on Korea and Indo-China was close to an abortive end. Characteristically, the Communists had used the talking time to increase their military pressure in IndoChina and had refused to move a fraction of an inch toward a reasonable basis for negotiation with the West. Such fresh evidence of unrelenting Communist purpose should have driven the Western nations closer together, but it had no such effect...
...effect, the U.S. thought northern IndoChina beyond repair...
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More persuasive than pleas was Bidault's effort to shore up France's military posture. In Paris, he asked the Cabinet "to make one last military effort in IndoChina to back up my diplomatic effort." The Cabinet, which has acquired a certain courage from the realization that nobody wants to take over its unpleasant task, agreed, and set about sending reinforcements to Indo-China (see below...