Word: indochina
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Republics responsible for France's political troubles. According to him, these institutions expressed all too faithfully the many divisions of French thought and interests. Hence the impotence of the Executive, which depended for survival on heterogenous, unstable coalitions, and which could do no more, on crucial issues such as Indochina, German rearmament or Algeria, than accumulate postponements until external events imposed their own solutions...
...INDOCHINA. While supporting France's military effort against the Communist imperialism in Southeast Asia, the U.S. gently but steadily pressured the French toward the grant of full independence that South Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia finally got-almost too late...
Vientiane-capital of the least of the three nations carved out of French IndoChina-lay in its habitual half-slumber beside the Mekong River. It was the Buddhist Lent in Laos. Temple gongs bonged in the viscous humidity; saffron-robed monks strutted about beneath gaudy parasols or sat cross-legged in the shade, puffing acrid French tobacco and sipping lemonade. Suddenly there was a stir. Official limousines swept out of the royal palace amid shrieking sirens and flapping royal banners (a three-headed elephant against a red background), bearing Prime Minister Prince Souvanna Phouma to the airport to meet...
...Your Tears." Once the convoy drew fire, but when the troops searched the hilltop whence the bullets came, no one was there except some Moslem farmers scything their grain as though nothing had happened. On the way back a farmhouse could be seen burning brightly. "IndoChina was nothing compared to this," said the veteran commander...
...French government has assured the United States that it intends to support Diem, for the moment at least. But it did so with an evident absence of enthusiasm which may increase, rather than lessen the probability of another crisis in South Viet Nam. Apparently the "French presence" in Indochina is to be preserved even at the cost of heightened chaos in a country that has known nothing but turmoil in the past few years...