Word: indo-china
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...hints of retaliation against Red China publicly voiced by Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden. It is the outcome of the U.S. National Security Council's recommendation on how the U.S. should conduct the war in the Far East from now on (TIME, Jan. 14). The U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff are, in fact, broadening the proposal: it holds that an air and sea attack on Red China should be launched not only in the event of renewed aggression in Korea, but also in the event of a Chinese Communist move against Indo-China, Burma or any other sector...
...battlefield, Malaya is small compared to Korea or Indo-China, but it boasts one of the dirtiest guerrilla wars onstage today. For close to four years, a handful of Communist-led bandits lurking in Malaya's jungles have terrorized the country, kept an army of British regulars and natives (140,000 at present) on the alert, and cost the government some $140 million a year. The cost to the world in lost Malayan rubber and tin may have been far more...
...overt help to her should be avoided lest it dismay the Indians, the Burmese and the, Indonesians. The French wanted a definite U.S. promise of armed forces for IndoChina-sea and air support, not ground troops-in the event the Chinese invaded. Without such a commitment, the French argued Indo-China would fall to the Communists, and so, in a matter of time, would British Malaya, Burma, Siam and probably Indonesia...
...many shrugging Frenchmen are apt to regard such crises as merely a bad joke, and to say that the government runs itself without a Premier. But with the war hotting up in Indo-China, with a budget crisis at home, and with parliamentary decisions waiting to be made on NATO and the European Army, the pavane is in grave danger of becoming a danse macabre...
Died. General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, 62, French High Commissioner and Commander in Chief in Indo-China; of a prostate tumor; in Paris (see FOREIGN NEWS...