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...will be cut from about 75% to 55%. ¶ Asia will get about 30%, a larger share (about $1.7 billion) than ever before. This sum includes $400 million for Indo-China. representing about 40% of the cost of the Indo-Chinese war to France (although the French, cut down in Europe and bolstered in Indo-China, expect to come out with a lower MSA total than they got last year). ¶ Some $5,250,000,000 of the $5.8 billion will be spent for military hardware and other support. Economic aid (hitherto the prime concern of MSA and its predecessor...
...Capitol Hill, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles warned that "all of Southeast Asia is today in great peril, and if Indo-China should be lost there would be a chain reaction throughout the Far East ..." Treasury Secretary George Humphrey spoke adamantly against any cuts in the program and, in the process, dashed hopes for a balanced budget: "I am distressed that we cannot balance the budget this year . . . the risks that would involve in our security would simply be too great . . ." Defense Secretary Charles Wilson, JCS Chairman Omar Bradley and MSA Director Harold Stassen echoed the Administration argument...
...England. In Paris, criticism of the government's conduct of the war was harsh. Leading French administrators, e.g., Saar Ambassador Gilbert Grandyal, were shying away from service in the crumbling Associated States. But last week Premier Rene Mayer nonetheless found a new and promising commander in chief for Indo-China: General Henri Eugene Navarre, oldtime cavalryman and armored-force officer...
...only real opposition the Communists have met so far has been from the French. But with a large section of French Indo-China in their hands, the Communists will be in a position to exert heavy pressure on non-French neighboring countries where governments are weak and inexperienced...
Cambodia (pop. 3,000,000) is one of the three Associated States of French Indo-China; its King Norodom Sihanouk Varman, visiting New York a fortnight ago, had a warning for the free world: unless the French give his people more independence "within the next few months," there is real danger that they will rebel against the present regime and become a part of the Communist-led Viet Minh. Said he: "They do not want to die for the French...