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...three years, the French have been fighting a weary, tenacious jungle war against the Communists in Indo-China. To save France's richest prewar colony (and a potentially important anti-Communist base in Southeast Asia), the French government has thrown a third of its small, painstakingly rebuilt army into the fight; so far, it has been unable to achieve anything like a decisive victory over Communist Leader Ho Chi Minh. Last week it looked as if the French chances of licking Ho had improved...
...then queried me about Indo-China, concerning which I know practically nothing, as I told him. He also asked me whether I should prefer a dictatorship of the right or the left in France. My response that I should want no dictatorship of either extreme failed to satisfy him and he insisted that I choose...
...long as the authorities remain silent, these political beliefs can be taken as the basis for the exclusion order. One striking indication that this is true is Shortliffe's story of how he was sharply questioned last May in the consular office in Toronto. What did he think about Indo-China? Would he prefer De Gaulle or the Communists to rule France? Did he believe in the overthrow of government by force...
Since the first of the year. Thomas' duties have taken him to Ceylon, India, Siam, China, Korea, French Indo-china, Japan and the Philippines. He rode the last scheduled flight out of Shanghat hours before the city fell to the Chinese Reds last spring...
...student group, the National Union of Students of Vietnam, is currently involved in a war against the French in the present conflict in French Indo-China. "The resistance and the work it requires takes all our time," the Vietnam student states...