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Indians are quick to point out that their policy is neither passive neutrality nor isolationism, but rather, they say, "non-alignment." They point out that India has played crucial roles in both the Korean and Indo-Chinese truces, which brought peace to both sides. Even Nehru has said that India never intends to be neutral on questions of right and wrong. In short, Indian foreign policy rests on mediation and settlement of issues where possible, but more importantly, on a firm stand for what India believes to be right...
...three disclosed incidents was last May, when Joseph Laniel was Premier. The second involved minutes of the Defense Committee meeting of June 28 (two weeks after Mendès-France had become Premier), at which the committee discussed the details of France's near-hopeless military plight in Indo-China. The Geneva Conference was then in progress, and the Communists' familiarity with the stark facts about France's position presumably allowed them to raise their asking price for a settlement. Mendès-France was at Geneva when he first heard of the leaks...
...made a career by attaching himself to Mons and traveling upward with him. "This is an affair of crypto- Communism," said the police. "They knew perfectly well where their information was going. They wanted to give the opposition information for their campaign to stop the war in Indo-China and ban the atom bomb...
...Must Fight." No man in Indo-China was more an uncontested ruler than Bishop Tu, a French-schooled Vietnamese and a onetime Trappist monk. His flock was half a million farmers who lived in the rich Tonkin coastal area. Le Huu Tu dotted his little theocracy with schools, seminaries, orphanages, and cathedral-sized churches. He walked a tricky tightrope of diplomacy, between the Viet Minh revolutionists, the Vietnamese loyalists and the French colonials...
...regular Vietnamese army will receive many of them into its ranks. Local Indo-Chinese war lords are competing for their services. As an army of soldiers fighting for their church, the militias are no more, but the bishop's soldiers have left their mark in Asia's bitter history...