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Last week the President also: fl Emphatically reassured an agitated Congress, at his press conference, that he had no intention of involving the U.S. in the hot war of Indo-China. The arrival of U.S. Air Force technicians in Hanoi did not mean that U.S. troops would follow. He could not conceive of a greater tragedy, Ike said, than for America to get involved in an all-out war in that region. What we are doing is to support the Vietnamese and French in their conduct of that war against the encroachment of Communism. But there would...
This week, having reached disagreement on Germany, the Big Four went on to the next topic-an Austrian treaty. On this or further subjects (Korea, Indo-China), there might yet come some change or break in the cold-war temperature. On the issue of Germany, the Berlin meeting was plainly a failure. But the West had established an important point. It had disposed, once and for all, of the hope that some in the West had cherished, from Churchill on down, that Soviet policy had somehow mellowed with the death of Joseph Stalin. A false hope was better dead...
French Defense Minister René Pleven flew to Indo-China this week to see for himself how the war was going. He came upon a strange battleground. The French held the towns but could not sweep the jungles; the Communists held the jungles but could not storm the towns. Since neither the French nor the Communists seemed able to win the military decision with their present strength, both sides kept their armies busy looking for, or fending off, headline victories that might somehow influence the political decision in Paris, Washington or Berlin...
...royal elephants to haul wood for their entrenchments. The French believed they could hold Luang Prabang, but the Communists had already loped 100 miles toward the city from their start line-a headline that went round the world. Men died in these skirmishes, but the fact remains that Indo-China is not primarily a real-estate war. So far, Navarre has denied the Communists what they most want-the rice-rich delta around Hanoi...
...south, when green Vietnamese nationalist troops surrendered 40 roadblocks without a fight. "We are stronger than you are," the Communists told them. "We are going to attack. We will let you withdraw if you abandon your posts." The Vietnamese withdrew but did not join the Communists. Like many other Indo-Chinese, they chose attentisme, or wait-and-seeism. They would join, the side that...