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...already skeletonized NATO forces. General Augustin Guillaume, chief of the French general staff, who as Morocco's Resident General dethroned Sultan Ben Youssef two years ago, resigned in protest. He was replaced by General Paul Ely, whose name to Frenchmen unfortunately calls up the last despairing days of Indo-China...
...prepare for war!" cried Jean Jacques Servan-Schreiber in L'Express (the newspaper of the Mendès-France camp, which this week gave up its costly attempt to become a Parisian daily and went back to being a weekly). The left-wing Combat warned: "It is the Indo-China solution. The shameful war by petits paquets [little packets], the blood spilled uselessly, with the prospect of an increasing extension of hostilities, capped by a new Dienbienphu." The government itself was showing telltale signs of dissension, and Mendès-France was talking of quitting...
...Algeria 300 were killed in one of the bloodiest weeks in the 16 months of crisis. In theory, if it comes to war in Algeria, the odds should favor the government, which has 200,000 French soldiers pitted against perhaps 15,000 armed rebels. But as in Indo-China, the rebels can count on the encouragement, tacit support or at least the silence of 8,000,000 Algerians...
...swallow up the heritage of France." Turning on the Americans present, he reproached the U.S. for backing the government of Ngo Dinh Diem against the French: "Each time you Americans do something wrong, you do it with the best of intentions. If there had been full cooperation on Indo-China, we would not have arrived where we are today...
...writes of individuals who stand for worlds and nations-the U.S., Britain, Asia-struggling amid blood-and-opium enormities between relative degrees of misrule. Yet in a sense, the heart of the matter is still the same. Whatever uncozy corner Greene chooses for his settings, whether West Africa, Mexico, Indo-China or England, the climate is always adultery and guilt. And the source of drama is always the fact that the damned cannot surely be told from the saved, that both are often driven side by side to the brink of hell...