Word: indo-china
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...week's end, France's Premier Pierre Mendès-France had only 16 days left. His pledges were still only pledges. In Indo-China, where he had promised to get peace in 30 days, the French abandoned a third of the Red River Delta without a fight. From both sides of the Atlantic, apprehensive allies warned him against any attempt basically to alter EDC. Trouble flared in restive Tunisia and Morocco...
...successors, affirmed again and again by Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower, made statutory in the permanent seats of the U.N. Security Council. As events have shown, and as Mendès-France affirms in effect, it was just an illusion, and the effort of maintaining it in Indo-China proved disaster in fact. What Mendès is now proposing is that France recognize itself as a second-class power, but an honest one. Free of the need to keep up a front. Frenchmen will be relieved of the nagging of creditors, the sneers of critics, the exhortation...
...also warned that if France did not give its colonial people more independence and quickly, they would take it themselves. The Indo-China war could have been avoided by granting Indo-China greater independence, he charged, and the same lesson is going unheeded in Tunisia and Morocco: "The 19th century colonial regime...
...early as 1949 he was telling the Assembly: "One day you will be forced to call on French conscripts to win the war in Indo-China. By the time you do it, it will be too late to win the war. You will also be forced to negotiate the settlement with Ho Chi Minh's Communists, but by that time it will be too late...
Party, to an island off the northwestern French coast and they took heart from French reverses in Indo-China and confusion in Paris...