Stevenson, Adlai, 246–7, 396, 446, 447
Stilwell, ‘Vinegar Joe,’ 106
Stockwell, Major-General Hugh, 177, 181, 300
Stonehouse, John, 375
Storrier, David, 186
Strategic Air Command (SAC), 59–60
Stroessner, General Alfredo, 413
Strong, Ann Louise, 67
structure and organization of Viet Minh, 212
Struma (ship), 92
Sudan, 82
Suez Canal, 81, 82, 84, 283–4
Suez Crisis, 283–303, 339
Anglo–French–Israeli plot, 296–9
background, 283–8
ceasefire, 300
impact of economic sanctions on Britain, 300
invasion of Sinai by Israelis, 298, 299
nationalization of Suez Canal by Nasser, 291–3
planning of military operation, 295
ramifications of, 302–3
and Soviet Union, 299–300
and United States, 294–6, 298–300
Suffren (cruiser), 37
Sukarno, 40–4, 45, 63
Sullivan, G. M., 376
Sullivan & Cromwell, 274
Sulzberger, Cyrus, 308, 340–1, 345–6
Sumatra, 39–40, 45
Suñer, Ramón Serrano, 347
Sun Yat-sen, 17
Suslov, Mikhail, 281
Swynnerton Plan (1953) (Kenya), 377–8
Taft, Robert, 3, 63, 246
Taiping Rebellion, 18
Taiwan Straits, 458
Tam Tam Xa (Society of Beating Hearts), 30
Tanganyika, 406
Taruc, Luis, 195, 197, 208–9, 497
Taylor, General Maxwell, 446, 449, 463–4, 473–4, 479, 486, 487
Teitgen, Paul, 334
Templer, General Sir Gerald, 167, 168, 175–82, 187, 497
Templer, Peggie, 178–9
Thacker, Ransley, 364–5, 366
Thieu, General Nguyen Van, 486
Thomas, Llewellyn, 446
Thompson, Sir Robert, 163–4, 166, 168–9, 466
Thuc, Pierre Martin Ngo Dinh, 470
Tibet, 104
invasion of by China (1950–1), 152, 311–12
Tillon, Germaine, 325
Tito, Marshal Josip Broz, 58, 282
Tomoyuki, General Yamashita, 14, 17
Tonkin Gulf Incident (1964), 483–4, 489
Too, C.C., 172–3, 177
Touré, Sékou, 398–9, 400
Trafficante, Santo, 416, 429, 494
Training Relations Instruction Mission (TRIM), 237
Transjordan, 74, 100
Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU), 119
Trapnell, General Thomas, 221
Trevelyan, Sir Humphrey, 288, 290
Trinquier, Roger, 336
Trujillo, Rafael, 413, 420, 421
Truman, Harry, 44, 48–50, 134, 245–7, 252, 267
and AIOC nationalization by Iran, 265–6
background, 48–9
and China, 106–7
and Communist threat, 55
dismissal of MacArthur by, 149–50
foreign policy, 55, 57–8
and Korean War, 134, 136, 137, 138, 141, 142, 147, 149–50, 153
and Middle East policy, 94, 95
and national security reforms, 59–60
and Soviet Union/Stalin, 50, 113–14
Truman Doctrine, 3, 57–9, 246
Tshombe, Moshe, 386, 392–3, 393–4, 395, 396, 397, 497
Tudeh Party, 79, 267, 268, 272, 274
Tunisia, 6, 324, 338, 339–40
Turkey, 56–7
Tweedy, Bronson, 388
26 July Movement, 419, 424
Tydings-McDuffie Act, 25
U-2 spy plane incident, 382–4
Uganda, 406
Ukraine, 278
United Fruit Company, 412
United Kenya Protection Association, 368
United Nations, 47, 48
and Congo, 387, 388–9, 390, 392, 395–6, 397
and Korean War, 137
United States, 245–57
and Africa, 378, 379–82
and Algerian War, 338–40
backing of Diem in South Vietnam, 232–3, 235–42
and Britain, 259–62
and China, 65–6, 102–5, 106–9
and Communist threat, 2, 55, 58, 60
and Congo, 386–398
containment policy, 52, 57, 62, 197, 246, 249
and Cuba, 415–6, 423–36
and Cuban Missile Crisis, 442–56
defence expenditure, 56, 133, 252, 254
and domino theory, 57, 81, 102, 217, 222
embassies, 254
and First Indochina War, 214, 221–4, 228–9
and France, 125, 339
and Ghana, 401
and India, 305, 306, 307–11, 317–8
Indochina policy, 230–1
and Indonesia, 44
and Iran, 79, 80, 267–8
and Johnson’s Great Society, 478–9
joint operation with Britain to overthrow Iran’s Mossadeq, 269–74
and Korea/Korean War, 68–72, 132–3, 136–55
and Latin America, 409–15
and Marshall Plan, 61–2, 63–4
Middle East policy, 94–5
national security reforms, 59–60
and NSC, 51, 59, 132
and nuclear weapons, 59–60, 253, 262, 382, 428, 440–1
and Pakistan, 312–18
and Palestine, 94–5
and Philippines, 193–210
post-war economy, 47–8
post-war relations with Soviet Union, 50–4, 61, 101, 134
religious revival, 251
and Suez Canal, 287
and Suez Crisis, 294–6, 298–300
and Vietnam War (See Vietnam War)
UNSCOP (UN Special Committee on Palestine), 98–9
Urquhart, Brian, 390, 394
Urrutia, Manuel, 422, 425
USAF (US Air Forces), 137, 146, 152, 435
US Armed Forces Far East (USAFFE), 193, 194
US Information Agency (USIA), 256, 412
U Thant, 396, 397, 450
Valdés, Ramiro, 422
Valeriano, Colonel Napoleon, 195, 203, 236–7
Valluy, General Jean-Etienne, 127, 128
Vandenberg, Arthur, 57, 58
Van Fleet, General James, 58
Vann, Lieutenant-Colonel John Paul, 470
Venezuela, 414, 415
Vergès, Jacques, 337
Verwoerd, Hendrik, 405
Viet Cong, 237, 240–1, 463, 464, 466, 469–70
Viet Minh, 32–3, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 124, 128–9, 160, 240, 461–98
advantages of, 218
and battle of Dien Bien Phu, 223–30
conditions endured, 218
cruelty of, 219
life among, 218–9
part-time pioneers, 218
structure and organization, 212
support of by Chinese, 211, 217–8
taking over from the French in Hanoi (1954), 231
tunneling, 219
war with French (See Indochina War, First)
Viet Minh victories against the French, 211, 214
Vietnam, 8, 27, 32–3, 68. See also Indochina War, First
appointment of Diem as prime minister, 232–3
backing of Diem by United States, 235–42
Diem’s rule, 237, 238–9, 241–2
diminishing of French influence, 233
division of, 231
independence (1945), 33–4
independence of within French Union (1949), 128
Lansdale in South, 235–42
peasant uprisings in the South, 240–1
re-establishing of French rule, 36–8
southern Communist insurgency, 240, 241
withdrawal of French troops from South, 234
Vietnamese Communist Party, 30–1
Vietnamese National Army, 213, 222, 237
Vietnamese Revolutionary Youth League, 30
Vietnam War, 6–7, 460–92
attack on US Air Force at Bien Hoa by Viet Cong (1964), 486
battle of Ap Bac (1963), 469–70
bombing campaign against the North, 480, 487–8, 489, 490, 491–2
Buddhist crisis, 470–1
and China, 485–96
CIA operations, 464–7
counter-insurgency operations by US troops, 489
coup against Diem, 471–4
creation of ‘strategic hamlets,’ 466, 467
deployment of US troops, 488, 489
increase in US ‘advisory’ presence, 464–5, 479
Johnson’s dilemma over, 481–3
Ngo Dinh clan, 470–2
support of Diem regime by United States, 461–3
and Tonkin Gulf incident, 483–4, 489
use of napalm, 488
Viet Minh attack on US helicopter base at Pleiku (1965), 486–7
Viktorov, Yuri, 397
Villoldo, Gustavo, 422
Villoldo, Gustavo, Jr., 422–3
Vinh Yen, battle of, 216
Voice aircraft, 182
Voice of America, 256
von Horn, Carl Carlson, 387
Wahu, Grace, 357, 359, 360
Walker, Arthur, 163
Walker, General Walton ‘Johnnie,’ 139, 140, 141, 145, 147
Wallace, Henry, 53–4, 106
Walters, Vernon, 266
Wang Jingwei, 17, 41
Waterhouse, Charles, 284
Waugh, Evelyn, 361
Wavell, Field Marshal Lord, 24
Wedemeyer, Albert, 106
Welensky, Sir Roy, 404, 406, 407
Westmoreland, General William, 479, 487, 488, 489
Wheeler, Earle, 490, 491
Whirlwind, 283
White, Major Frank, 36
Wilber, Donald, 269
Williams, Lieutenant-General Samuel ‘Hanging Sam,’ 241
Willoughby, Charles, 144
Wilson, ‘Engine Charlie,’ 248
Wilson, Woodrow, 21, 409
Wisner, Frank, 198, 257
Woodhouse, Monty, 270
World Bank, 291
Yacef, Saadi, 328, 332, 333, 335
Yakolev, Mikhail, 387, 391
Young, George, 270
Young, Sir Arthur, 177, 370
Yugoslavia, 56–7, 282
Yuichi, General Tsuchihashi, 28
Zabane, Ahmed, 328
Zaehner, Robin, 266
Zahedi, Ardeshir, 273
Zahedi, General Fazlullah, 269, 270, 271, 272, 273
Zaire (was Congo), 398
Zambia (was Northern Rhodesia), 408
Zeller, General André, 347, 349
Zhdanov, Andrei, 112
Zhou Enlai, 31, 144, 230, 311, 318, 488
Zionists, 82, 91–4, 95–9, 120–1, 368, 371
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