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Word: cyr (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Says De Lattre: "The whole business is a matter of officers." From France's St. Cyr come 16 to 20 high-grade Vietnamese officers each year. The new Vietnamese Ecole Inter Armes last week graduated its first class of 150 Vietnamese second lieutenants of infantry. There are still far from enough Vietnamese officers for a full-size army. Tentative suggestions that U.S. officers might help in the training have been rejected by De Lattre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: Making an Army | 4/30/1951 | See Source »

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