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...before, particularly with England, and can probably extricate itself without permanently alienating the parties in the dispute. But France has come to see Algeria as the last stand of French power--power which has been disintegrating steadily since the war and which reached a low, but heroic ebb at Dien-Bien...
Indecent-Ridiculous. After the debacle of Dien Bien Phu, Le Van Vien stayed briefly on in the new independent state of South Viet Nam, and even made a brief, last-ditch attempt to hold his ground before the moralistic new broom of Premier Ngo Dinh Diem. Then he prudently fled to Paris, taking with him one wife, a few children and an estimated 3 billion francs ($8,570,000). There in the suburbs, while the remnants of his army intrigued among themselves back home, the old buccaneer settled down to a life of refined retirement. No marquis...
Communist President Ho Chi Minh took over Haiphong with 10,000 men selected from the elite regiments of Dien-bienphu; frozen-faced, in green uniforms and the inevitable sneakers, they carried identical bouquets of flowers. But when Haiphong was secure and with it the whole of North Viet Nam (pop. 12 million), Ho's orthodox Communist purge got under...
...staggering 2,000,000 Indo-Chinese civilians were homeless. Ho's patient preparation was finally rewarded last spring, when the Communists struck characteristically on two fronts 5,000 miles apart: with Red China field guns and Russian rocket launchers, they crumbled the valiant French garrison at Dien-bienphu; with Chou En-lai and Molotov, they crumbled Western resolution at Geneva. One day last month, in one of the most extraordinary spectacles of Asia's long, unfolding panorama, French tanks withdrew from Hanoi before Viet Minh infantrymen wearing sneakers...
Moving South. After the fall of Dien-bienphu and the general French collapse, Le Huu Tu and several other bishops forfeited the last hope of maintaining their armies, were evacuated to the South. The Catholic militiamen have been moving south ever since, womenfolk, children and baggage piled high on carts and pedicabs...