Word: indo-china
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General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, French commander in Indo-China: "Without these [French] troops, this country would be enslaved overnight to Communist tyranny. Even if some naive people do not see the danger, we must stand against it. There is no neutral...
Purpose of His Visit: Pleven & Truman will discuss U.S. aid for Indo-China, the Korean situation, French and German rearmament, a possible conference with Russia. Pleven laid himself open to Gaullist criticism of second-fiddling when he did not accompany Britain's Prime Minister Clement Attlee to Washington in December. Now he hopes to regain face for France...
...will-to-win met a will-to-win last week on Hill 101 in Indo-China. When the battle was over, the will of General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny dominated the field...
...honorable withdrawal under gunfire because of overwhelming odds." ¶ "Try to promote democracy, land reform and an increase in production and living standards in all non-Communist countries, especially those threatened by Communist aggression." ¶ Stand by to help with air and naval forces if the Communists strike in Indo-China, the Malay Peninsula or the Near East. Get Britain and France to make the preponderant contributions of land forces for those areas "to compensate for their relative failure to help in the Korean struggle." ¶ Take all the allies to be found, including Tito, Franco and Chiang Kaishek. "They...
...several reasons for staying in Korea, perhaps the best was the pinning down of many of Red China's best troops, which would otherwise be free for aggression elsewhere (for example, in Indo-China...