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...Viet Minh armies had the military capability to crush the French completely and take over the whole of Vietnam, North and South. After the fall of Dien Bien Phu, there was little doubt the Viet Minh had complete and unconditional victory within its grasp. The French would have to accept whatever terms the Viet Minh decided to offer. But at the Geneva truce negotiations the Viet Minh delegation made concessions to France and the West that were surprisingly great, considering their advantageous military position. Although the Viet Minh had originally demanded the 11th parallel as provisional dividing line between...
...pointed the snouts of antiaircraft guns skyward. In Paris, the S.A.O. struck massively by exploding a booby-trapped car on a crowded suburban street. Before signing the closely detailed, 100-page peace treaty, the F.L.N. demanded a guarantee that De Gaulle's government be ready and willing to crush the S.A.O. Failing that, the F.L.N. wanted explicit permission to do the job itself...
Castro, in his right mind, presumably would never try to storm Guantánamo, unless he wanted to provide the U.S. with a justification for moving in to crush his Red regime. He has no legal case against the U.S.: under a 1934 treaty that cannot be voided unilaterally, the U.S. may rent Guantánamo in perpetuity...
...first 250 pages Fleming describes Western relations to the Soviet government from 1971 to 1945 as a preface to the heightened postwar tensions. A sketch of his interpretation could run as follows: Western reaction to the Russian Revolution was interventionary; on four fronts the West tried to crush the new regime before it consolidated its position. This effort was, of course, thwarted, and the unforgiving Bolsheviks held undisputed power by 1921. The west, however, led by Britain and later the United States, tried to isolate the nation it could not destroy...
...Jesuits in 1789 founded the first U.S. Catholic university, Washington's Georgetown. Georgetown raised its head in an overwhelmingly (99%) and belligerently Protestant new country. A pamphleteer of the time warned of the "calm, shrewd, steady, systematic movement of the Jesuit order . . . to subvert the Reformation, and to crush the spirit of liberty...