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...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...
...tough foreign legionnaires, Frenchmen, North Africans, Thais, Cambodians and Vietnamese snatch back one outpost. At 0800, De Castries counterattacks again, and fails. At 1000, he goes in for the third time-and wins. But two hours later, De Castries has to withdraw. Says an HQ spokesman: "This is the most violent struggle of the war." All day the French hang...
...difficulty is that not all Frenchmen in Indo-China share Dejean's optimism about the outcome. Some give the impression of having thought out the relative benefits and harms of every degree of victory or defeat. Here is how many of them talk. Says a handsome officer with a good combat record: "Maybe the French did not do enough in time. But no longer can the French win militarily because French public opinion will not wait long enough for that. It would take until 1955 or 1956. If there is no solution at Geneva, French public opinion will want...