Word: indo-china
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France mourned officially for two full days. Premier René Mayer's government ordered the tricolor lowered on military posts. Next day, Le Figaro (circ. 426,000) protested: "Marshal Stalin is leaving us other souvenirs . . . His name is linked to the struggle of our troops in Indo-China and Korea. [The Soviet Union] helps in prolonging a terrible war . . . Have our authorities thought of the effect which [lowering the flag] will have on the morale of our combat units...
...Allow the French officers corps (but not the officers of other EDC partners) to be rotated at will between the French "national army" (e.g., in Indo-China) and the French contingent to the international European Army...
...only part of north Indo-China which the French still hold securely is a 6,000-square-mile tract of swampy land at the mouth of the Red River. Somewhere inside the French defenses, there are 40,000 Communist guerrillas. Again & again the French have thrown back concerted guerrilla action, but they have not been able to prevent a more insidious form of Communist attack: the blackmailing of peasant communities...
...troops would be used in Indo-China...
...Entering the seventh year of war in Indo-China, French and Viet Nam soldiers counted their hard-won gains over the Viet Minh Communists...