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Baruch cited examples. Suggestions had been made that MAP arms be diverted from France to Bao Dai in Indo-China. "Are we then to weaken Western Europe for some halfhearted and possibly ineffective action in the Orient?" In Germany, "sooner or later we must expect a showdown-since Germany cannot be expected to remain divided indefinitely. Are we pacing ourselves so that we will be ready for that showdown when it comes...
...Korea, Indo-China, Malaya and Burma, the traveler said, the cold war was "hot." Mao Tse-tung's Peking government was using Hitler's technique-threatening reprisals against relatives in China unless Chinese in other Asiatic countries showed their loyalty to the Reds. The massing of Red troops along Asiatic borders was often enough to paralyze any incipient anti-Communist policy. Transplanted Chinese populations, Chinese-language newspapers, even wealthy Chinese were going over to Communism in wholesale lots...
...Loud Ties. The key spot and the most dangerous one was Indo-China. On its northern border stood Mao Tse-tung's troops, giving encouragement to the guer rilla chief, Ho Chi Minh. Indo-China was coveted by the Reds not alone for its strategic advantage. Mao Tse-tung, faced with famine at home, had his eyes on IndoChina's spreading fields of rice. But in Indo-China, the traveler thought, there was also some cause for optimism. Emperor Bao Dai, despite his passion for "sports coats and loud neckties," was intelligent and an energetic leader...
...under a veneer of Westernization; its rulers in independence were trying to bring old & new together. Burma's ancient way of life had been all but destroyed by Western rule; now the Westerners had left Burma and it was wallowing in chaos. To Siam's east lay Indo-China, where the Westerners refused to leave and where the Communists had been able to take advantage of a confusion second only to Burma's. To Siam's north lay China, the most tragic example of the contact between East & West. South and East of Siam were Indonesia...
...weeks ago gave its official nod of recognition to the state of Viet Nam, which the French had sponsored in Indo-China under former Emperor and reformed playboy Bao Dai. Last week ships of the U.S. Seventh Fleet, commanded by Vice Admiral Russell S. Berkey, steamed through the South China Sea in a show of support for Bao Dai. Two destroyers, the U.S.S. Stickell and the U.S.S. Anderson, tied up at the capital of Saigon while Admiral Berkey paid a courtesy call on Bao Dai (see cut). The U.S. aircraft carrier Boxer sent her planes over Saigon...