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With the money, the French would speed equipment to their forces in Indo-China, and build up inside their own country an army which would bear the first brunt of any Russian attack in Western Europe. They would fully equip five existing divisions with U.S. arms, and would call up and arm four new divisions with U.S. money. And they would equip another division-the tenth-out of their own pockets...
...These examples may provide precedents for solving such problems as the future of Korea and Indo-China," said Lattimore, who will speak here November 24 at a Law Forum on the "Struggle for Asia...
...week's end, Ho's forces occupied a broad wedge of North Indo-China, with the base of the wedge resting in China, its edge pointing at Hanoi. The French still held important forts on the extreme flanks of the wedge: at Laokay on the upper Red River where the railway between Hanoi and Kunming cross into China; in the south at Langson where the railway between Hanoi and Ningming crosses the border. Laokay was cut off and dependent on supply by air. There were reports of Communist troops regrouping before Langson, from which civilians were being evacuated...
...with his family at the Cháteau de Thorenc above Cannes. Minister of State Jean Letourneau, in charge of Indo-Chinese affairs, on coming out of a cabinet meeting, tried to calm the excitement. Said he: "The French high command has got the situation in hand . . . There is absolutely no justification for any panic or for talk of catastrophe." The cabinet called on energetic General Alphonse Juin, French Resident General in Morocco, to look into the Indo-China mess. Juin's first act last week was a telephone call to Bao Dai, after which Bao. Dai announced...
...Washington, Defense Minister Jules Moch and Finance Minister Maurice Petsche asked the U.S. for $300 million worth of arms for Indo-China. Defense Secretary George Marshall assured Moch that the U.S. would make every effort to speed supplies to Saigon...