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...strength. He is convinced that a strong France is vital to the interests of the free world. But he also knows that French foreign policy cannot be a brittle shell over a rotting core. For communism can breed in the rubble of economic distress as easily as it can overrun an unarmed Germany. The French premier has already begun to boost a standard of living that has revived far too slowly since the war. With a coldly realistic appraisal, he has trimmed France's foreign commitments to take some of the strain off the nation's creaking economy...
...refused to go to Viettri on the ground that De Castries' defense tactics at Dienbienphu had been faulty and that he was partly responsible for the fall of the fortress. To reporters, De Castries said that he had never run up a white flag, even when Dienbienphu was overrun. After his capture, he had no water during the first four days and was kept in isolation, guarded by four Viet Minh soldiers. Eventually he was taken before General Vo Nguyen Giap, the crafty Viet Minh commander, but would not reveal what they talked about...
...Castries was on the air again: "The central redoubt is about to be fully overrun. Further resistance is becoming hopeless." At 1700, De Castries made another call to his commander, General René Cogny, in Hanoi...
...India, $7,500,000, to finance the world's biggest fleet of heavy tractors. By plowing under the tough kans grass that has overrun millions of acres, the tractors will bring land back into cultivation. Within two years, India expects to have 1,500,000 more acres of farmland, enough to produce $35 million a year in wheat...
...place of Nehru's resolution. Nehru, who has always fought Communism at home, angrily retorted that Asians should not disturb external relations "with friendly powers." Once more Pakistan's Ali lashed at Nehru: "We can rid ourselves of colonialism," he said, "but any country that is overrun by Communism may be lost forever...