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...crackdown came none too soon. The country's leading Reds, every one of whom eluded Castillo Armas' somewhat butterfingered clutches last June, were hard at work trying to regroup their shattered forces underground. Some who first fled to asylum in embassies later slipped out to join other comrades in stirring up the peasants and the numerous unemployed. Immediately after the recent army rising, Communist leaflets quickly appeared on the streets proclaiming that "the people" had turned against the regime as "a fascist dictatorship imposed...
More good news: reinforcements from Hanoi are dropped-tough paratroopers in red berets. Red gunfire slackens, and the Reds pull back 500 yards from Bald Head to regroup. The situation, says French HQ. is "serious, but less critical...
...congressional fears, respected its ideal of civil control, and won it over in the end with honesty -and his dogged hope of victory. He did not underestimate his army. Revolutionary soldiers might desert, but they often returned to fight again. They might break before British bayonets, but they would regroup and fight the next day. Properly led, they endured incredible hardship, often without pay, without proper clothing, without proper food...
...problem which has long occupied northern Viet Nam Governor Nguyen Huu Tri. After long study he settled on a scheme successfully adopted by the British in Malaya-resettlement of peasants in protected villages. Fruitlessly he tried to talk the French military command into a three-part plan to 1) regroup scattered villages into strong farmers' communities; 2) transform communal militias into truly popular forces; 3) harass the Communists whenever they attempt to infiltrate one of the new resettlement villages. Busy fighting, with no money to spare, the French shook their heads. Said a French civil servant: "The French would...
...Greece, as in Korea, the enemy struck from a sanctuary to the north. In Greece, the Red forces could escape across the frontier to Russian satellites to rest, regroup and get new supplies; in Korea, the Chinese Reds are using Manchuria in the same way. In Korea, Van Fleet is picking up where he left off in Greece-fighting other, much more numerous enemy contingents in the same global conflict. The enemy face is now Mongolian instead of Mediterranean-but it is familiar...