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Sirs: Further note on the "Earthquake McGoon" saga: One evening in Cholon, Indo-China, I was being introduced by Earthquake to his favorite Szechwanese food. With his Chinese plane crew about him ... he told us about his capture by Chinese Communists in West China after his plane was downed. His captors were putting him through a long forced march to their head quarters. In the course of time Earthquake, much better at flying than walking, became so tired that he sat down on the ground, and all efforts to get him to resume the trek were of no avail. Threatened...
Nixon blamed one of the Eisenhower Administration's most pressing problems on the Democrats: "There would be no crisis in Indo-China today if the Truman-Acheson foreign policy had not lost China to the Communists." Illustrating that the Republicans and boardinghouse chickens do not have a monopoly on wings. Nixon pointed out that one wing of the Democratic Party shouts for civil rights while another blocks action. Said he: "The Republican Administration has done more for civil rights in 17 months than the Democratic Party did in 17 years...
...Bayonet Fighter. When Templer arrived in Malaya in February of 1952, the country, like Indo-China some 200 miles to the north, was in mortal danger of being captured by Communist guerrillas. A quarter of a million troops and police were combing the jungles for a few thousand Communists. The guerrillas held the initiative, murdering and plundering at will...
...French Army Reorganization Commission and called him over: "You! You there! I don't know you, but I want you to work for me. I like the way you think." Cogny rapidly became full colonel, regimental commander, executive secretary to the Defense Minister. De Lattre took Cogny to Indo-China, to London and Washington (where Cogny learned to speak English well). Cogny became De Lattre's disciple. After De Lattre died in January...
France named Cogny to command Indo-China's northern front with its crucial Red River Delta. Cogny, at 48, was a general...