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...Pierre Mendes-France. Despite the improvement of the French economy during Faure's reign, Mendes-France is undoubtedly the most able candidate for the Premiership. During his brief tour of duty on the Front Bench, his record was admirable. He removed the French from the seething crisis in Indo-China, placed his nation preponderatingly within the Western Defense Alliance, opened the way to settlement of the North African situation and, most important of all, proposed a new economic program which promised to restore France as a financial, agricultural, and manufacturing power...
Nonrecognition of Peking was the only possible course for the United States as long as the Chinese Communists participated as aggressors in the Korean War, trained officers and men for the aggressive war in Indo-China, and assisted in supplying arms from Czechoslovakia and Russia to the Ho Chi Minh forces. Now there remain its preparations for a war against Formosa. So long as these continue, recognition is still impossible...
...certain other practical matters." He will canvass the possibility of Red China's agreement to U.S. principle of "no recourse to force." The U.S. also wants to explore the chances for a cease-fire in the Formosa Strait. But Ambassador Wang's Red China defines the "other matters" quite differently: 1) peaceful conquest of Formosa, 2) lifting of the U.S. and UN embargoes on trade with China in strategic materials, 3) membership in the U.N., 4) "strict fulfillment of the 1954 Geneva treaty on Indo-China," meaning tne surrender of South Viet Nam in July...
Trouble in North Africa costs the French treasury close to 800 million francs ($2,300,000) per day. Like Indo-China before, it has placed a strain on France's inflated economy. Six months ago, France was enjoying something of a boom, and producing more cars, steel and textiles than ever before in its history. Production is going up, but last week, on their return from the beaches, French workers were out on strike in 17 provincial towns. Their demand was for higher wages to match higher prices...
...Indo-China: Appointed to command the rainy southern district of Indo-China in 1947, De Latour forgot that he was no longer in the desert, and is said to have defined his strategy in a single, gruff directive: "We'll cut off the bastards' water supply." In 1950, took charge of the combat zone in North Viet Nam but was stricken with dysentery, invalided home...