Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from the Indo-China campaign. Then Vietnamese Chief of State Bao Dai, who has lifted do-nothingism into a career, had balked for three days on the grounds that the package would probably be undone at Geneva by the French. Despite last week's agreement in principle, both Frenchmen and Vietnamese are still haggling over the legal and financial specifics of independence, and might not sign the treaties for several weeks (underlings were left to work out the details; Bao Dai relaxed in his chateau at Cannes). "Independence has come in such a way," grumbled one Vietnamese official back...
...garrison at Dienbienphu clung at week's end to six fire-whipped strong points by the Nam Yourn River. The tricolor still flapped jauntily above the French command post. But the 12,000 worn-out Frenchmen. Vietnamese. North Africans and Foreign Legionnaires had been squeezed into one-third of their original perimeter, and they were short of ammunition, supplies and fresh reinforcements. The men were so tired that their performance was losing effect. One night last week the Communists quickly isolated and overran a Foreign Legion outpost in the airstrip sector, and the French could not get it back...
...American and British pledges did not materially add to what the two governments had long made plain they intended to do. But the British pledge of actual participation in the European Army's working was designed to reassure the many Frenchmen who fear that otherwise, the efficient Germans will use it to dominate the French. And the U.S. promise was explicit enough to combat the fear of U.S. withdrawal, which has been strong in France ever since Defense Secretary Charles Wilson's too-casual talk about pulling U.S. ground forces away from the Continent (TIME...
...international rugby match in Paris' Colombes Stadium, Britain's Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery was caught by the photographers giving a patriotic war whoop as England's team scored a three-point try against France. But Monty's joy was short-lived: the Frenchmen went on to win the game, 11 to 3, and tie with England and Wales for the tournament championship...
Thomas Griffith, TIME'S Foreign News Editor, is quite right in saying that the IndoChina war "is [still] a colonial war ... in the minds of some Frenchmen . . ." The French government recognizes the undeniable fact that the days of colonialism are dead, and henceforth, French foreign policy must be formed accordingly. France, "the sick man of Europe," is fighting for exactly the same values that America fought for in Korea...