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Über das Verhältnis des Malayo-Polynesischen zum Indochinesischen. < Det Kgl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab. Historisk-filologiske Meddelelser: XXVII, 2 >.

INDOCHINA; FRENCH FOREIGN LEGIONBiblio.com

Photograph album showing the Second Foreign Infantry Regiment in the First Indochina War.

1951184909Nha Trang: c.1951. Honneur et Fidélité" - showing the legion throughout Vietnam A snapshot of life in the French Foreign Legion during the First Indochina War. The album shows the regiment on parade aerial shots of gun emplacements and the Col de Nuages Hai Van Pass which would see a fatal derailment in 1953. One of the photographs shows future prime minister Tran Van Huu inspecting troops alongside a legion officer. This album contains many photographs of south Vietnam including Nha Trang Ai Nghia Hoa My Dong Phu and Quang Nam. Some the prints are tourist photographs of local people or official studio photography of military parades but the majority are more candid shots of soldiers and gun emplacements which seem to have been taken by the legionnaire. The opening leaves focus on the French Foreign Legion's Camerone Day celebrations on 30 April 1951 showing the regiment parading its colours and with the popular Pionniers unit in full dress. A number of the senior officers are identified on the reverse of the prints. "The 1st Battalion under Major Le Toulec left Africa and landed in Indochina in early 1949. It was stationed in Annam present-day Central Vietnam south of Tourene now Da Nang. This city was about 300 miles 500 km north of Nha Trang the 2e REI HQ. The legionnaires were mainly tasked with maintaining order in the sector as well as patrolling the main routes and keeping them safe and passable" French Foreign Legion Information. There are some images taken in Port Said and Djibouti. In addition three of the loosely inserted photographs are aerial shots of Tunisia annotated in red with directions to Kalaa Djerda Tajerouire and Haïdra. Kalaa Djerda was an important French airfield prior to the Second World War and the German invasion of Tunisia. Landscape quarto 235 x 345 mm. With 175 gelatin silver photographs various sizes landscape or portrait most with deckle edges mounted recto and verso on 20 tissue-guarded leaves many inscribed in blue ink on verso manuscript ink captions on a few leaves 2 photographs printed on postcards with printer's blind stamp; 6 loosely inserted gelatin silver photographs approximately 120 x 163 mm landscape 3 annotated in red ink 2 inscribed on verso in blue ink; 3 loosely inserted folding colour maps trimmed to size crossing neatlines 535 x 373 mm to 490 x 650 mm. Contemporary black lacquer souvenir album tied with red and yellow cord through holes as issued front board with metal hinges and lacquered with colour village design. Housed in a grey archival box. Photographs bright a little toning and creasing as expected album worn but holding maps with some rubbing and closed tears along fold lines: a very good example. French Foreign Legion Information "1st Battalion 2e REI in Vietnam's Faifo around 1950" 2025. unknown

Peter Harrington · Royaume-Uni1 500,00 £GB≈ 1 712,70 €

United States Interagency Task Force for Indochina RefugeesBiblio.com

Interagency Task Force for Indochina Refugees: Report to the Congress

197567473Washington DC: Interagency Task Force for Indochina Refugees 1975. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Good. Has some wear and soiling. 101 p. Staple bound and tabbed. Chronology of Events. Refugee Profile. From Wikipedia: "In 1975 U. S President Gerald Ford appointed Julia V. Taft as Director of the Interagency Task Force on Indochina Refugees created by the Indochina Migration and Refugee Assistance Act. In this capacity she oversaw the resettlement of more than 130 000 evacuees from Cambodia Laos and Vietnam after the fall of Saigon. Taft would spend the next three decades designing and developing refugee programs for the United States Department of State the United States Department of Health and Human Services the United States Agency for International Development and the United Nations. From 1986 to 1989 she was the Director of the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance a part of USAID. There she was responsible for coordinating the efforts of the State Department the Pentagon other government agencies and non-governmental agencies like CARE and Save the Children in responding to requests for disaster aide from foreign governments. For example in 1986 she administered $130 million in U.S. aide sent in response to the 1984 1985 famine in Ethiopia. In 1988 she oversaw the U.S. response to the floods in Bangladesh that had left 25 million people homeless; smaller floods in the Dominican Republic and India; displaced persons in Burundi; a poisonous gas eruption in Cameroon; and a locust plague in Ethiopia. In the wake of the 1988 Spitak earthquake she traveled to the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic to coordinate U.S. aid. From 1994 to 1997 Taft was head of InterAction a coalition of non-governmental organizations dedicated to international aide. In 1997 U. S President Bill Clinton nominated Taft to be Assistant Secretary of State for Population Refugees and Migration and she subsequently held this office from November 10 1997 to January 19 2001. From 2001 to 2004 she was director of the United Nations Development Programme's Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery in which capacity she oversaw the United Nations response to displaced persons related to the War in Afghanistan." Interagency Task Force for Indochina Refugees paperback

Ground Zero Books · États-Unis100,00 $US≈ 84,61 €