Word: garrisons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quite all alone, it seemed: "I ask the people to be there to mark their remembrance of what was done to save the independence of France, which they intend to preserve. I ask the veterans of both wars and of Indo-China to surround the monument. The garrison of Paris will have to be there for honors and the sounding of trumpets, the glorious police of Paris to keep order. All of us ... will speak not a single word, will utter not a single cry. Above the calm of this immense silence will float the soul of France...
Back at Hanoi, French GHQ optimistically noted that Giap's fourth counterattack showed "definite lack of conviction," and the tired, outnumbered French garrison is still given a 50-50 chance to hold Dienbienphu...
Then the Moroccans launch one of the epics of the battle: they make eleven separate counterattacks against Bald Head and eleven times they fail with losses. They try once more-and win. From Paris comes word that France's highest unit citation has been awarded to the entire garrison: "The heroic sacrifice of those who have fallen, the fierce tenacity of the fighters, adds a new glory to ... our arms," says France. De Castries is nominated for brigadier general...
...evening, the radio brings the voice of French Commanding General Henri Navarre to the garrison: "Final success belongs to him who holds out to the last moment. I am convinced it will be the valorous soldiers of De Castries who will hold out to the last moment...
...second paragraph of the "sovereignty" manifesto made plain what the Kremlin's brand of "freedom" amounts to: "The Soviet Union retains . . . those functions which are connected with the safeguarding of security." The Red army, in other words, will continue to maintain its 340,000-man garrison in East Germany, a dagger directed at NATO, a club to be used against the East German people should they rebel again against their Red masters...