#113 Toxic Nuts

#113 Toxic Nuts

Author: Cameron Reilly & Ray Harris March 29, 2019 Duration: 0:00
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Ho wonders aloud to a journalist why the Vietnamese were not being given the same opportunity as the Philippines, who had just been given their independence from the US, or India, which had just won its independence from the UK.

All the Americans seem to care about is whether or not he’s a Communist.

Meanwhile French Minister of War Paul Coste-Floret declared, “There is no more military problem in Indochina. The success of our arms is complete.”
And France has Madagascar problems involving toxic nuts.

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