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Given that attitude, the best that the free world can produce, even if all its soldiers are as brave as Dienbienphu's defenders, is more Dienbienphus. "There is no substitute," MacArthur once said bitterly, "for victory." There is a more accurate and a more bitter way of stating it: there are dozens of alluring substitutes for the will to victory-and all of them are poison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Will to Victory | 5/17/1954 | See Source »

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