Word: dienbienphu
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...evident pleasure, he presented a unit citation to the elite 2nd Amphibious Group, 1st Foreign Legion Cavalry Regiment; he tied the traditional fanon, an Arabian horse's tail, to the regimental colors. Then the strapping (6 ft., 200 Ibs.) three-star general called the legion officers around him. "Dienbienphu was a blow," he said, "but that's all over now. We must turn the page. We must look forward-and forward lies the Battle of the Delta...
...story of her next eight weeks. "She seemed a bit demoralized for the first two or three days," said a wounded French sergeant, "but she soon got hold of herself and started working at all hours of night and day." From scraps of radio-telephone and teleprinter messages from Dienbienphu, a legend was born: in headlines around the free world, Genevieve de Galard became "the angel of Dienbienphu...
...would take the last messages of the dying. "I am glad I am trapped," she once told GHQ. "I am proud to be here." Only once did she request a favor: she wanted new underwear, cosmetics and some clean blouses. But her package was dropped, like so much of Dienbienphu's supply, behind the Communist lines...
...Dienbienphu's last week of freedom, De Castries presented her with the Legion of Honor, kissing her on both cheeks. "The entire garrison wishes it could do the same," said the general. On May 4 he presented her with the Military Cross with palms "for courage under fire." Privately, De Castries told GHQ: "It is tragic that she must live here in this manner. She never stops working until she falls on her feet." As the Communists came in for their final assault, she sent her own final message to Hanoi: "Tell my mother not to worry. All goes...
...Since last August, the poorly organized nationalists, armed with smuggled hand grenades, homemade bombs, pistols and machine guns, have killed 101 persons, wounded 189 more. France's reverses in Indo-China have given the insurgents new heart. Recently, they circulated clandestine letters saying that "Casablanca will be another Dienbienphu." Help from the Hills. In retaliation for the terror, Guillaume's police jailed a thousand suspects, of whom 300 still await trial. Day after day his gendarmes roamed the cities, questioning the rich and searching the workingmen. If a suspect was caught with an out-of-date banknote...