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...rising storm whipped at the banners of Dwight Eisenhower's crusade. From Tonkin to Geneva last week, the atmosphere was charged with gloom, defeatism, suspicion among allies. In Washington the determined Republican efforts to contain the McCarthy-Army hearings failed, and new thunderheads spread over the Department of Justice and the White House itself...
Tragic Delay. Until Friday, Bidault clung to the hope of help from his friend John Foster Dulles: perhaps some direct U.S. intervention, perhaps a declaration that the Tonkin delta around Hanoi was vital to the free world and would be defended if necessary by U.S. arms. That afternoon Dienbienphu fell. Overnight, Bidault read Dulles' speech, admitting that "present conditions there do not provide a suitable basis for the U.S. now to participate with its armed forces." It was a tragic day for Georges Bidault. To a sympathetic questioner, he said wearily: "My trumps? When I look at my hand...
...Ambassador Douglas Dillon whether the U.S. could help Dienbienphu with carrier-plane strikes. The U.S. refused, explained that such intervention could only be taken within some framework of "united action." The French were surprised, particularly as they knew that six U.S. carriers had been moved into the Gulf of Tonkin...
...famed Foreign Legion, death must be joked about. For more than a century since its founding by King Louis Philippe in 1831, the men of the Foreign Legion, the Kepis Blancs, have fought and died for France in almost continuous campaigning in Algeria, in the Crimea, in Mexico, Tonkin, Dahomey, the Sudan, Madagascar, Morocco, the Dardanelles, Syria, Serbia and France itself. In six years of fighting the Communists, more than 7,000 Legionnaires have died in Indo-China alone. "You Legionnaires," a French general once promised them, "you are soldiers who were meant to die, and I am sending...
...command of an air group. In 1949, when the war against the Viet Minh Communists began to get hot, Nguyen Van Hinh's group was sent to Indo-China. Nguyen Van Hinh and his pilots took old Junkers 52 bombers on raids across the Tonkin Mountains. Soon Nguyen Van Hinh was a bigwig in the French Far East Air Command, a leading member of Chief of State Bao Dai's military cabinet, and something of a national hero. Last week 36-year-old Nguyen Van Hinh, now a brigadier general, was preparing to take command of Viet...