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...Governor Wu spoke, the last Nationalist troops on the mainland were streaming across the border into Indo-China, and the Chinese Communists held uncontested control of the Asian coastline from the Gulf of Tonkin almost to Vladivostok. Only the remnants of the Nationalist armies stood against the certainty that China's Communists would try to take Formosa, thus driving a dangerous wedge between strategic U.S. positions in Japan and Okinawa to the north, and in the Philippines to the south...
...Chinese foreign policy is ... gradually emerging . . . The Peking conference of Asian and Australasian trade unions [held Nov. 16-Dec. 1] marked out the main lines on which Chinese Communist activity is to develop. This conference . . . declared its support for the 'national liberation' forces in Burma, Malaya, Indonesia, Indo-China and the Philippines ... It was finally decided to set up a permanent liaison bureau and secretariat, which . . . would serve as a 'general staff' for all the Communist-led revolutionary movements ... In fact, the Far East now has its Cominform...
...patrician approach. It was a little time, after she arrived in Washington, before she discovered that she did not have full access to the White House and would have to deal with the State Department. Last week, asked by newsmen what her brother's visit might do for Indo-American relations, she snapped back: "The Prime Minister has not shared his mind with me, nor is it customary for a prime minister who desires to have secret talks to discuss them with his ambassador. And you can quote me on that...
...Indo-China does not want the French, with or without former Emperor Bao Dai. Nehru regards Bao Dai as a puppet of the French, and he would rather take a reluctant chance on Communist Ho Chi Minh than back the French. But, under British and American persuasion, Delhi is keeping mum about Indo-China...
...Most important part of the new Indo-China (with 21 out of 25 million of its people) is the Union of Viet Nam, composed of the old colonial provinces of Cochin-China, Annam and Tonkin, and run by an autonomous federal government. To continue as French protectorates with semi-autonomous status are the remaining two provinces: Laos, the land with the three-headed elephant in its flag (TIME, Aug. 1) and Cambodia, ruled by young (26) King Norodom Sihanouk...