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...primary purpose of the United Nations," said Secretary Dulles to the U.N. General Assembly, "is . . . establishing an international order of peace and justice. Yet, for over three years, there was a war in Korea. A war in Indo-China still goes on. Nowhere is there a sense of security . . . Physical scientists have now found means which, if they are developed, can wipe life off the surface of this planet. These words that I speak are words that can be taken literally...
...Navarre, a quiet but steely, cultured but tough general of the French army. He had come from Paris to take command of a war that was going badly for France and the non-Communist world-a Red nightmare that had clung to the green jungles and rice fields of Indo-China for seven years...
Will & Means. That was four months ago. French Union troops, slogging through the steamy jungles and paddy mud, were demoralized after seven years of battle with Red Viet Minh forces that seemed to attack from everywhere, only to fade into nowhere when counterattacked. The governments of Indo-China's three Associated States, Laos, Cambodia and Viet Nam, were taking advantage of the mess to harass France for more and faster independence than France could sensibly give. The truce was on the way in Korea, freeing Communism to turn its attention and resources on the war that Korea had overshadowed...
...last week new spirit and optimism had surged up in the men in Indo-China who must fight the ugly war, and the men in Washington and Paris who must see that they get the means and the will to win it. The new lift in morale came partly from the Allied governments, which had decided to plunge fresh resources into the war-more troops from France, more millions from the U.S. But in great part, it came from slim, trim Henri Navarre...
...Communist China has been and now is training, equipping and supplying the Communist forces in Indo-China. There is the risk that, as in Korea, Red China might send its own army into Indo-China. The Chinese Communist regime should realize that such a second aggression could not occur without grave consequences which might not be confined to Indo-China. I say this soberly, in the interest of peace...