Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would be proud to serve under him again. What is expected of the American fighting man of today ? Is he expected to follow General Dean's suggestion and carry some deadly poison to take if capture seems imminent? Are the quartermasters to issue cyanide pills along with other combat gear? Are we, a Christian nation, now to become devoted to harakiri? Ridiculous! But that is the only logical sequence if Colonel Schwa-ble is not completely exonerated and restored to a full-duty status...
...four days work that now takes them five, balk for fear they will be laid off on the fifth. Many manufacturers are content to produce for a known limited market rather than risk expansion. It is this attitude that Rab Butler has set him self to combat...
Some say sardonically that combat pay is good and that one can do quite well out of this war. It is a war fought on one side largely by indoctrinated press gangs and on the other largely by courageous mercenaries: the heavily German Foreign Legion, the Algerians, Moroccans and other Africans. Others say that the politicians are making a good thing out of it and getting their money out of the country. They complain that one can eat well in serene Saigon (and you can, for the cuisine is French) while ignoring the few at the end of the line...
...French supply routes and depots near Hanoi. But Giap was able to move reinforcements and ammunition to his 40,000-man striking force in 200 new Molotov trucks down two open roads from Red China. The French could do almost nothing to stop him: they needed their very few combat planes for Dienbienphu itself...
...that not all Frenchmen in Indo-China share Dejean's optimism about the outcome. Some give the impression of having thought out the relative benefits and harms of every degree of victory or defeat. Here is how many of them talk. Says a handsome officer with a good combat record: "Maybe the French did not do enough in time. But no longer can the French win militarily because French public opinion will not wait long enough for that. It would take until 1955 or 1956. If there is no solution at Geneva, French public opinion will want to negotiate...