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...danger of a French defeat is serious. The French have not yet completed their retreat into the Red River delta. Under the guise of "regrouping operations," they will soon abandon Moncay. Already, Moncay's French and pro-French civil population has been evacuated by sea, the Moncay airfield destroyed. The terrain held by the French is complex-a network of dikes, soggy paddy fields and island-like villages fringed with bamboo and banana trees. Inside this area (slightly larger than the Pusan beachhead held by the U.S. in Korea last August) are hidden pockets of Communist troops, in some...
Adenauer's devotion to Cologne and his native Rhineland gave rise to an abiding dislike for Prussia. His eyes were turned West (he is known for his strong pro-French sympathies). Adenauer-who does not drink-once said...
Madagascar. A shocked French Assembly last week heard details of revolt in Madagascar, the big, beautiful island off Africa's southeast coast. Paris estimated that in March and April, at least, 180 Frenchmen and 1,000 pro-French natives have been butchered by white-turbaned, spear-waving extremists of the Malagasy Renovation Party (M.D.R.M.). Despite French airborne reinforcements, the attacks still continued. Deputy Jules-Mathieu Castellani, a teak-faced Madagascar planter, recounted gruesome tortures...
Died. Nicholas ("Collective Security") Titulescu, 57, towering, trigger-witted Rumanian diplomat, picturesque pillar of the League of Nations in its palmy days, six times his country's pro-French, pro-democratic Foreign Minister, leader with Eduard Benes in the late Little Entente; of pernicious anemia resulting from tuberculosis; in exile, in Cannes, France...
...saloons. His pride, his bitterness that France with her 100,000 World War II dead and her 2,000,000 prisoners should fare so badly in the popular opinion of friends of her better days, prevents him from making a wider appeal. When he says: "I am pro-French," as a soldier of France he expects to be believed...