tour of US (1959), 423
Castro, Raúl, 417, 419, 420, 421, 422, 424, 425, 428, 493
Catroux, General Georges, 327–8
CCP (Chinese Communist Party), 30, 31
Central African Federation, 403, 404, 406–8
Central Intelligence Agency. See CIA
Central Treaty Organization (CENTO), 316
Centre of the People’s Power (Putera), 41
Ceylon, 319
Chaban-Delmas, Jacques, 341
Chalabi, Ahmed, 21
Challe, General Maurice, 296–7, 331, 345, 346, 347, 348–9
Cheers and Tears (Cooper), 490
Cheju, 71
Chen Geng, 211
Chen Lee, 183
Chiang Kai-shek, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 30, 33, 34, 36, 64–5, 66, 102, 103, 104–5, 107, 108, 109, 127, 493–4
Chile, 414
China, 4, 15, 17–20, 64–8, 102–9, 128–9. See also Chiang Kai-shek; Mao Zedong
conflict between Nationalists and Communists, 17–20, 64–6, 105, 107–8, 112
and Cuba, 454–5
and First Indochina War, 211, 217–8, 225, 226
Great Leap Forward, 441, 457–8, 459, 485
and India, 4, 311–12, 318, 319
invasion and occupation of Tibet (1950–1), 152, 311–12
Japanese policy in, 16
and Korean War, 134–5, 142–51, 152, 153
Long March (1934), 19
and nuclear weapons, 488
and Pakistan, 319–20
and Soviet Union, 65, 67–8, 102–5, 106–9, 112, 113, 282–3
split with Soviet Union, 455, 456, 457–60
and United States, 65–6, 102–5, 106–9
victory of Communists in civil war, 113, 132, 160
and Vietnam, 239, 485–96
war with Japan, 17, 19–20, 31
Chin Peng, 5–6, 157–8, 161, 162, 172, 185, 187, 188, 494
Cholla, 71
Christison, General Sir Philip, 43
Chromite Operation (Korea), 140
Churchill, Winston, 111, 114–15, 125, 229, 257–63, 494
and Anglo-American relations, 259
character flaws in later years, 258
and de Gaulle, 28
and Egypt, 284–5, 286, 287
and Eisenhower, 259–60
and India, 22, 24
‘iron curtain’ speech, 52–3
and Malay Emergency, 175, 176
and nuclear weapons, 262–3
and Palestine, 90
Roosevelt’s view of, 47
stroke suffered, 258, 274–5
and Suez Canal, 284–5
wins 1951 election, 257
CIA (Central Intelligence Agency), 46, 59, 108, 132, 236, 256–7, 437
and Bay of Pigs fiasco, 434–6
and Congo, 388
conspiracy to murder Lumumba, 389–92, 398
covert operations in Laos, 461–2
and Cuba, 438
‘Esau’ studies, 459
expansion of by Kennedys, 437
and Guatemala, 412
links with the Mafia, 429–30, 440
and Nasser, 285, 286
Office of Special Projects, 51
operation to overthrow Iran’s Mossadeq, 269–74
overthrow of Faruq, 285–6
plot to assassinate Castro, 429–30
review of (1948), 256–7
and Suez Crisis, 298
and Vietnam War, 464–7, 481
Cienfuegos, Camilo, 421
Clark, Mark, 154
Clifford, Clark, 52, 95
Clines, Ray, 270
Clinton, Bill, 3
Cochin China, 27, 35, 36–7, 216, 217
Codner, Michael, 178
Cogny, General René, 223, 224, 227
Cohn, Harry, 429
Colby, William, 464, 465, 473
Cold War, 2, 54, 112, 116, 255, 318–19
Collins, General ‘Lightning Joe,’ 233
Collins, Vice Admiral Lawton, 229
Colombia, 418
Colonial Development Corporation, 122
Cominform, 62
Comintern, 2
Communism, threat of, 2, 55, 58, 102, 108–9, 157, 160, 230
Condor Operation (Laos), 229
Conein, Major Lucien, 235, 236, 472, 474
Confucianism, 18
Congo, 384–398, 401
accrediting of Kasavubu regime by UN, 392
attempts to bring down Lumumba by CIA, 389–92, 398
attempts to reunify and end Katanga secession, 393–8
Belgian rule, 384
death of Lumumba, 392
independence, 385
military mutiny and attempts to suppress, 386–7
and Soviet Union, 387–8, 396–7
and United Nations, 387, 388–9, 390, 392, 395–6, 397
and United States, 386–398
Conover, Willis, 256
containment policy, 52, 57, 62, 197, 246, 249
Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, 367
Cooper, Chester, 300
Cooper, Lieutenant-General Charles, 490, 491
Copeland, Mike, 270
Copeland, Miles, 285–6, 290, 292–3
Corsican Brotherhood, 235
Costa Rica, 414–5
Coste-Floret, Paul, 128
Coty, President René, 344
Council of Foreign Relations, 249
Coutts, Walter, 376
Cowan, John, 376
Creech Jones, Arthur, 97, 121–2
Cross, Charles, 466
Crossman, Richard, 95–6, 98, 402
Cuba, 382, 409–36
Agrarian Reform Law, 424–5
and Algeria, 445
Batista regime, 415–7, 420
and Bay of Pigs fiasco, 434–6, 437, 448, 492
Castro’s regime, 421–6
and China, 454–5
CIA operations in and plot to assassinate Castro, 429–30, 438–40
gangsters in, 416–7
militarization, 426
and Platt Amendment, 415
rise to power of Castro and downfall of Batista regime, 417–21
run on the banks, 425
and Soviet Union, 427–8, 441–2, 455
and United States, 415–6, 423–36
US economic sanctions against, 440
Cuban Communist Party, 420, 424, 430
Cuban Missile Crisis, 319, 401, 437–56
secret deployment of Soviet weapons in Cuba, 442–5
‘slow track’ quarantine proposal, 449, 450
Soviet agreement to withdraw weapons, 453–4
US discussions on response to Soviet deployment, 446–9
US intelligence on deployment, 444–5
Cubela, Roberto, 454
Cutler, Robert, 248, 254
Cyprus, 188
Czechoslovakia, 62
Daily Worker, 181
Dalai Lama, 104, 312
Dalton, Hugh, 121
Darbyshire, Norman, 269, 270
d’Argenlieu, Admiral Thierry, 37, 127
Dayal, Rajeshwar, 391
Dayan, Moshe, 289
Debré, Michel, 341
decolonization, 2, 127, 404
Decoux, Jean, 28
de Gaulle, Charles, 28, 88, 125, 126, 127, 340, 383, 401, 479, 494
and Algeria, 344–5, 346–7, 348, 349, 351
return to power, 341–5
Degueldre, Roger, 350
Delarue, Father, 333
de L
attre, Bernard, 215
de Lattre de Tassigny, General Jean, 102, 215–7
Denard, Robert, 394
Devlin, Lawrence, 388, 389–91, 391, 396–7
Dewey, Lieutenant-Colonel Peter, 35
Díaz Lanz, Pedro Luis, 425
Diem, Ngo Dinh, 232–3, 234, 235–42, 462–4, 467, 468, 471, 474
Dien Bien Phu, battle of (1954), 223–30, 322, 331
Dikötter, Frank, 457
Dobrynin, Anatoly, 443, 452
Dominican Republic, 409, 413
domino theory, 57, 81, 102, 217, 221
Don, Tran Van, 472
Donovan, ‘Wild Bill,’ 59
Dorticós, Osvaldo, 425
Dreyfus Affair, 331
Driberg, Tom, 299–300
Dubrow, Elbridge, 241
Dulles, Allen, 228, 249, 256, 256–7, 261, 269, 270–1, 387, 388, 414, 437
Dulles, John Foster, 138, 230, 248–51, 252, 254, 259, 261, 289–90, 380, 434
and Algerian War, 338
and Ayub Khan, 314–15
background, 248–9
character, 248
Christian beliefs, 250
condemnation of Communism, 250
and Eisenhower, 249–50
foreign policy, 254, 255–6
and High Aswan Dam project, 291
and Iran, 270–1
and Latin America, 411, 413–14
and Nehru, 314
and Pakistan, 314–15, 316
relationship with Eden, 261–2
relations with Church leaders, 250
Dulles (cont.)
as Secretary of State, 248
and Suez Crisis, 294–5
Dumaine, Jacques, 126
Dutch East Indies. See Indonesia
Duval, Archbishop ‘Mohammed,’ 333
East Turkestan Republic, 104
Eden, Anthony, 7, 81, 120, 258–9, 260, 261, 403, 494
becomes prime minister, 263
ill-health, 292, 296
and Nasser, 289, 291, 292–3
personal life, 258
relationship with Dulles, 261–2
resignation, 302
and Suez Crisis, 283, 284, 287, 292–301
view of United States, 259, 261
Edwards, Sheffield, 429
Egypt, 81–5, 283–303. See also Suez Crisis
Black Saturday (1952), 285
and Britain, 81–2, 83–4
Britain’s agreement to withdraw forces from Canal Zone, 284, 287–8
coup against Faruq’s monarchy, 285–6
evolution of nationalism, 83–4
and High Aswan Dam project, 291
and Israel, 289
and Soviet Union, 280, 290
and United States, 289–90
Egypt Committee, 293–4
Egyptian Communist Party, 290
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 108, 193, 245–57, 301–2, 382
and Algerian War, 338
background and military career, 245
and Castro, 423–4, 426–7, 429
and Churchill, 259–60
and Congo, 388
death and burial, 494
and defence budget, 254
and Dulles, 249–50
foreign policy, 252, 256
governing team, 247–8
and India, 317–18
and Iran, 270–1
and Korean War, 153–4, 247
and Latin America, 415
and National Security Council, 254–5
and ‘New Look’ policy, 252
and nuclear weapons, 252–3, 261, 262
and Pakistan, 314–5, 316–7
religious faith, 251–2
and Suez Canal, 287
and Suez Crisis, 294, 296, 298–300
and U2 plane incident, 382–4
and Vietnam, 240
view of Dien Bien Phu, 228
wins presidency, 246–7
Eisenhower, Mamie, 247, 494
Electors’ Union, 361
Elizabeth II, Queen, 353, 374–5
Ely, Paul, 233, 342
Embarrass Operation, 98
empires, 4–5
Erskine, Lieutenant-General Sir George ‘Bobbie,’ 369–70, 371–2
Escalante, Aníbal, 424
Etoile Nord-Africaine (North African Star), 87
Evian Agreement (1962), 351
Evian Conference (1938), 91
ExComm, 446–9, 451, 452
Exodus 1947 (ship), 98
Facing Mount Kenya (Kenyatta), 358–9
Fadayan-e Islam, 264
Faisal I, Amir, 74, 75, 494
Faisal II, Amir, 75, 288
Fanon, Frantz, 340
Farran, Major Roy, 97
Faruq, King, 81, 83, 84–5, 285–6, 494
Fawzi, Mahmoud, 296
Feklisov, Aleksandr, 451
Feleo, Juan, 195
Ferradj, Abdelkader, 328
Figueres, José ‘Pepe,’ 414–5
First World War, 73
Fischer, John, 53
Flaming Dart Operation (Vietnam), 487
Fleming, Ann, 301
Fleming, Ian, 301
FLN (Front de Libération Nationale), 129–30, 321, 322–37, 342, 343, 345–7, 348, 351–2. See also Algerian War
aims, 323
bomb attacks in Algiers, 335
establishing of, 322
military chain of command, 327
peace talks, 349, 351
violence by, 323, 326
Foccart, Jacques, 352
Forrestal, James, 59, 256
Foster, General John Watson, 248
France, 125–30
and Algeria, 85–86, 129–30
and Algerian War, 6, 321–52, 401
diminishing of influence in Vietnam, 233
and Guinea, 399
and Indochina, 6, 27, 28–9, 36–9, 123–4, 126–8
and Israel, 290–1, 303
nuclear weapons, 341
opposition to Fourth Republic, 340–1
overseas empire, 126–7
post-war, 114, 125–6
return of power by de Gaulle, 341–5
and Suez Crisis, 293, 295, 296, 329
‘ten-pin theory,’ 102
and United States, 125, 339
war against Viet Minh (See Indochina War, First)
Fraser, William, 264, 265
Free French, 28
French Foreign Legion, 212–3, 331
French Union, 127
Friends of the Manifesto and of Liberty, 87
Froger, Amédée, 332
Froggatt, Leslie, 13–14
From Here to Eternity (movie), 429
Front de Libération Nationale. See FLN
Fuad, King, 81
Fu Zuoyi, 66
Gaitán, Eliécer, 418
Gaitskell, Hugh, 288
Galbraith, John Kenneth, 468
Galula, David, 66, 330, 336
Gandhi, Mahatma, 22–23, 307
Gavaghan, Terence, 375
al-Gayani, Rashid Ali, 75
Gazier, Albert, 296
Geneva Accords (1954), 231, 485
Geneva Convention, 334, 367
Geneva peace conference, 261, 262
Gent, Sir Edward, 157, 164, 165
Germany, 109
Ghana, 380, 400–1, 404
Giancana, Sam, 429, 440, 494
Giap, Vo Nguygen, 31, 32, 33, 34, 37–38, 39, 127, 212, 215, 217–8, 219, 223, 224, 225–8
Gibbon, Edward, 10
Gioran, Roger, 269
Gizenga, Antoine, 392, 393, 396
Glubb, Lieutenant-General Sir John, 292
Godard, Colonel Yves, 332–3, 335, 347, 348–9
Godfather, The (movie), 429
Goldwater, Barry, 428, 483, 484
Gomez, Remedios, 200
Gomulka, Wladyslaw, 281
Good Neighbor Policy, 409–10
Gottlieb, Sidney, 391
Gracey, General Douglas, 34–5, 123–4
Graham, Billy, 250
Grand Slam Operation (1962) (Congo), 382–4, 397
Gray, Colonel Nicol, 167–8
Gray, Gordon, 388
Great Depression, 259
Great Society, 478–9
Greece, 56–7, 58, 123
Greene, Graham
Quiet American, 233, 242
Greene, Wallace, 490
Griffiths, Captain, 369
Griffiths-Jones, Eric, 374, 375–6
Gromyko, 458–9
Guantanamo Bay, 415
Guatemala, 411–2
Guerilla Communism in Malaya (Pye), 466
Guevara, Che, 419, 420, 421, 422, 423, 425, 427, 436, 442
Guinea, 398–400
Gunther, John, 361
Gurney, Sir Henry, 165, 167, 174–5
Hadj, Messali, 86, 87, 88, 321
Haganah, 92, 93, 96, 99, 350
Haiti, 409, 414
Halberstam, David, 469
Hammarskjöld, Dag, 387, 389, 395–6
Hammer Operation (1955) (Kenya), 374
Harkins, General Paul, 465, 472, 473, 479
Harriman, Averell, 51, 54, 265–7, 468, 471
Harvey, William, 438–40
Hatta, Mohammed, 42, 44, 45, 63
Hayward, Brian, 371
hearts-and-mind campaigns, 6, 15, 16, 36, 128, 162–3, 189, 233–4, 237, 240–1, 336, 465–6
Hecht, Ben, 98
Helms, Richard, 437, 439–40
Henderson, Ian, 374
Henderson, Loy, 51, 58, 80, 95, 264, 268–9, 270, 272, 273, 274, 306, 309–10, 314
Hickerson, John, 136
Hideki Tojo, 193
High Aswan Dam, 291
Hillenkoetter, Admiral Roscoe, 51, 256
Hinde, Major-General Robert ‘Looney,’ 368–9
Hinh, General Nguyen Van, 237
Hirohito, Emperor, 138
Hoare, Mike, 394
Ho Chi Minh, 29–33, 34, 36–8, 127, 231, 488, 495
Ho Chi Minh Trail, 240, 461, 491–2
Hodge, John Reed, 69, 71–2
Hola Scandal, 376–7, 404
Holocaust, 94
Home Guard (Kenya), 366, 367, 369, 370, 372, 373
Honduras, 409
Hoover, J. Edgar, 440
Hope, Viceroy John. See Linlithgow, Marquess of
Hor Leung, 186
Houston, ‘Wierd Neil,’ 461
Hughes, Emmet John, 246, 250
Huks (People’s Anti-Japanese Army), 192–3, 199–200, 207–10. See also Philippines
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