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...willing to accept sound international control of atomic weapons. The U.S. does not intend to turn every little war into a general atomic war, but it does intend to use the threat of "massive retaliation" as a deterrent. It has already warned the Chinese Communists that direct intervention in Indo-China or new aggression in Korea would mean broader retaliation by means and at places chosen...
...morning he met with Secretaries Dulles and Wilson and Admiral Radford to go over U.S. Indo-China strategy in preparation for the important talks in Washington this week with General Paul Ely, the French Chief of Staff. And at his press conference, the President had some thoughtful words on current problems...
...result of McCarthy's headline-grabbing extremes, said Flanders, the U.S. is being diverted from far more serious, more dangerous problems. One by one, Flanders twanged off the names of world trouble spots: Korea, Indo-China, sick France and dissension-torn Italy, Asia, Africa and Latin America, with its spreading infection of Communism. "In very truth," said Flanders, "the world seems to be mobilizing for the great battle of Armageddon. Now is a crisis in the agelong warfare between God and the Devil for the souls of men. In this battle of the agelong war, what is the part...
...shrilling of bugles, troops of the Communist Viet Minh poured onto a saucerlike plateau in the mountains of Indo-China one day last week and launched a crucial battle of the seven-year Indo-China war. Their objective: Dienbienphu, a huge French fortress 175 miles west of Hanoi...
...sucking the forces of wily Communist General Vo Nguyen Giap into an attack that they felt might hurt him sorely. For Giap, on the other hand, Dienbienphu became a challenge; to reduce the fortress could well deal a deadly blow to France's resolve to fight on in Indo-China...