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...just such an approach, with an eye to the concrete details. Last week, at the Governors' Conference in Seattle, the President had some things to say about the continuing goals of U.S. policy in Asia, now that the armistice has been signed. Immediate object: the defense of Indo-China...
Line Blocked. Said the President: "The last great population remaining in Asia that has not become dominated by the Kremlin, of course, is the subcontinent of India [and] Pakistan . . . Now let us assume that we lose Indo-China. If IndoChina goes, several things happen right away. The [Malay] Peninsula, the last little bit of land hanging on down there [see map^. would be scarcely defensible. The tin and tungsten that we so greatly value from that area would cease coming, and all India would be outflanked. Burma would be in no position for defense...
...truce in Korea increased the French government's hankering for a settlement in Indo-China. Said Premier Laniel last week: "France is now the only great nation at war, pursuing ... a battle in contempt of her own interests." In Paris, three alternatives are being examined by the Laniel cabinet: 1) continuing with the Navarre plan of fluid attack in the hope of finally wiping out the main resistance; 2) building up the native Vietnamese army to a point where it can take over the country's defense; 3) opening direct negotiations with Viet Minh Leader Ho Chi Minh...
...alternative, favored by Chief of State Bao Dai, now in Paris, will require time and a generous assignment of French officers to train the Vietnamese soldiers-something the French, whose officer cadres are already much depleted, are reluctant to do. The third alternative is vigorously opposed by non-Communist Indo-Chinese, who fear that Red flags will be flying in Hanoi and Saigon within hours of a political armistice. The non-Communist Indo-Chinese have their own plan: complete independence within the French Union. Without that, truce talk for them is premature and cowardly...
...Indo-China, but Paris, that needed revalorizing...