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...away from the defensive strategy that has dominated conduct of the war since the death of the great Indo-China commander Marshal Jean de Lattre de Tassigny. Go on to the attack...
...Bring the independence-minded Indo-Chinese into full support of the war by really moving towards the independence that France has long but hesitantly promised. The Indo-Chinese, whose memories of French colonialism often blind them to the threat of Red domination, have not trusted these promises, need more guarantees to give them something to fight...
From Paris, Premier Joseph Laniel fired off an offer to complete negotiations for the full independence of Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia-"within the French Union," the French hoped, but even outside it if the Indo-Chinese insist. Paris gave Navarre nine more battalions of French soldiers (eleven less than he asked for, but a lot when measured against France's supply). Washington, kept in touch with the detailed development of the plan by Ambassador Donald Heath, joined in further planning. Its decision: an addition of $385 million to the $400 million in aid that was already scheduled...
...polyglot troops had not heard such stirring words for a long time-not at least since dramatic Marshal de Lattre had come to Indo-China (in 1950) to fire his forces to a fervor that might have won the war had he not died (TIME, Jan. 21, 1952) and had economy-minded, casualty-sick France not let its effort degenerate into the grim mess that greeted Navarre...
When the time came for a man to follow the successful De Lattre and the unsuccessful Salan in Indo-China, hard-boiled Marshal Alphonse Juin, France's No. 1 soldier, looked only to the next desk for the man; Navarre had become Juin's chief of staff. Of Juin's choice an official in Washington remarked: "In our opinion, Navarre is a man of courage, energy and imagination. He knows his business and has military and political guts of a high order . . . [He] is leading a new team which looks pretty good...