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Author Lartèguy's book was published in Paris in 1960. Since then, history has proved him correct in his assessment of the reckless desperation of the paratroops: when the rebel generals revolted in Algiers last April, three paratroop regiments stuck with them to the bitter...
...settling of small power aggression and crises in general to the great powers of the world. Plainly, he favors a mediating, conciliatory UN executive, and doesn't like the increasingly activist role that the Congo crisis has forced upon it. And, he has said over and over again, the reckless, sloganeering anti-colonialism of the world body's newer members leads them to adopt a deplorable double standard of international morality...
...responsibility for law and order and crush a Tshombe who refused to negotiate. Lord Home's government was thus both wrong and dishonest: its attempt to subvert a set of UN resolutions it hadn't the courage to veto is in itself an apt lesson in hypocrisy for the "reckless" anti-colonialists to ponder...
Declared Lord Home to a local United Nations association in northern England: > The U.N. has embarked on "a new and dangerous practice" of anticolonialism, passing resolutions that "could only be described as reckless and careless of peace and security," and showing a "double standard" that criticizes Britain's colonialism, ignores Soviet imperialism. "Is there growing up almost imperceptibly a code of behavior where there is one rule for the Communist bully, who deals in fear, and another for the democracies, because their stock in trade is reason and compromise...
...September Captain Kieu violated that last principle by dying in a reckless frontal assault on the government-held village of Dakakoi...