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...President discussed strategy with a frankness and cogency never before equaled in a State of the Union message. "Communist aggression, halted in Korea, continues to meet in Indo-China the vigorous resistance of France and the Associated States, assisted by timely aid from our country. In West Germany, in Iran and in other areas of the world, heartening political victories have been won by the forces of stability and freedom. Slowly but surely, the free world gathers strength...
...Indo-China. Strategically and economically, Indo-China is three times as important as Korea. Needed: stepped-up U.S. assistance (equipment, not men) for the French effort...
...discussion only of Germany and Austria. He might convincingly talk of total atomic disarmament-and a ban on atomic weapons, without any other kind of disarmament, would, as SHAPE Commander Alfred M. Gruenther acknowledged this week, be to Russia's advantage. Molotov might suggest a truce in Indo-China, and thereupon demand that Red China be invited to Berlin. Whatever the details, the Communists made no secret of their main ambition at Berlin: to defeat the West's plan for a European Army. The method would be to rouse France's ancient fears of German arms. Said...
...French professor named Pierre Boudarel, a former philosophy lecturer at a Saigon lycee. Boudarel's line was that the U.S. was backing the Indo-China war because it wanted to take over colonial power in Indo-China from the French...
...Saigon, French Commissioner General Maurice Dejean, an able man who is not given to undue optimism, tartly observed: "We have the situation well in hand . . . The major difficulty of the French command in Indo-China is to come to grips with the Viet Minh. They are like a swarm of flies buzzing around a tree. If you shake the tree they fly away in all directions . . . The Viet Minh tried to win a cheap, spectacular success to compensate for their failure in the vitally important Red River delta, where they have been unable to gain any substantial advantage." General Navarre...