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...five "human sea" assaults against Gabrielle, but Gabrielle's 600 Algerians damn and dam them. "I am full of confidence in the victorious issue of this battle," De Castries reports to Hanoi, "because of the morale of the troops." At 0900, the Communists ask for a three-hour truce so both sides may pick up their wounded. The doctors work desperately with their amputation knives while chaplains intone prayers for the dead. At 1200, the truce ends. Some 1,000 French reinforcements from Hanoi parachute into Dienbienphu. But the weather is bad, and French battle planes cannot...
Russia, he said, wants a truce in the cold war. "It is not true that mankind has to face only the choice between fresh world slaughter or the cold war . . . The Soviet government stands for further reduction of international tension." Malenkov gave no hint of what the Soviet government might do to help reduce world tension, insisting that the deeds must come from the "aggressive circles in the West that are still hopelessly dreaming of destroying our socialist society." As a first step, he added, Western Europe should abandon EDC, "by which, under the guise of a little Europe, there...
...years in a war that is militarily hopeless, politically dead-end and economically ruinous." Bao Dai's special congress did not help French morale by voting, roundly, that it wanted no part of the French Union in its present form. And in July 1953, the U.N. negotiated a truce in Korea. Across France a great cry swelled: Finish la sale guerre by negotiation-like the clever Americans in Korea. That cry is loud...
...Past Year. At the beginning of the year, with the Korean war still in progress, the economy was expanding. Seeing the threat of further inflation, the Administration tightened up on credit. At about that time, demand for commodities began to fall off. The trend was magnified by the truce in Korea...
Syria, which opposes any project that might benefit Israel, bristled that the canal was an armistice violation; from U.N. Truce Supervisor Major General Vagn Bennike came a warning to the Israelis: "Cease working." The Israelis, who believe in fait accompli, put their bulldozers on three shifts. But when the U.S. suspended aid to Israel for its defiance of U.N., Israel capitulated and agreed to let the Security Council decide the dispute...