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...When Marshal Jean de Lattre de Tassigny died last January, it seemed that there was nobody to take his place. Who among French generals cut a figure half so dashing as the Lanvin-tailored De Lattre? Without De Lattre's dynamic leadership, what was going to happen to Indo-China? France's fears deepened when, in February, the Viet Minh Communists forced the French out of Hoa Binh, which Marshal de Lattre had so boldly taken. Since that low point, the military situation has steadied under the firm hand of De Lattre's sad-eyed friend...
...Field Marshal Sir William Slim, chief of the British Imperial General Staff, arrived to give a series of lectures at U.S. military institutions. Said he: morale in British forces is "absolutely first-class"; civilian morale is good too: "We shall grouse; we shall grumble; people will say we're decadent. Then somebody will hit us and they'll find...
...South Africa te which Scott returned is the most important and most troubled of these mixed societies. The government of the late Field Marshal Smuts passed a bill that segregated the Indian minority in Durban. Scott found that young Indian men & women were going each evening to camp or stand on a piece of ground that was now reserved for Europeans. He put on his cassock and joined them. Pleasant-looking young white men in athletic clothes gathered with pretty girls under the trees opposite. They attacked the Indians, making hunting cries. They did not touch Scott. They merely said...
...Boss? Egged on by such fanatic lieutenants, aging Pastor Malan sought to silence the opposition. In Parliament last week, Jacobus Gideon Nel Strauss, 51, heir to the late great Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts as leader of the United Party, tried to attack government policy. Nationalist backbenchers shouted him down. Unable to make himself heard, Strauss appealed to the Speaker of the House, an ardent Malanite. The Speaker's only comment: "Resume your seat. I think you have said enough." Slumped on the front bench opposite, Prime Minister Malan chuckled in derision...
Casablanca is a fine place for freewheeling French businessmen: profits are big, taxes low. No one there seriously considers the need or desirability of turning the country over to the Moroccans, or giving them autonomy. Even the late Marshal Lyautey, who had a wonderful knack for getting along with Moors, seemed to think that Morocco would stay peaceably in French hands forever. Belatedly, a school for native administrators has been started, but turns out only 60 men a year...