Word: vietminh
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...could not go on. At 1730, De Castries called GHQ for the last time: "After 20 hours of ceaseless combat, just now man-to-man, the enemy has infiltrated right through our central bastion. Munitions are short. Our resistance is about to be submerged. The Vietminh are only a few yards from the radio where I speak. I have given orders for maximum demolitions. The ammo depots are going up already. Au revoir...
Explaining his organization's view of the French-Vietminh conflict, French said that the way to solve the problem "is obviously not by putting more tanks and gains." But any kind of a desirable solution seems improbable, he added "so long as the Communists insist that their forces gain all the land they're after...
...America would be quick to enter the war, they thought, if Red China were to take a large-scale role in the fighting. Up to now, Mao Tsc-Tung's forces have limited themselves to giving supplies to the Vietminh troops...
...loss of Dienbienphu, now under continual bombardment by the Vietminh troops, would not be a crucial military disaster for the anti-Communists, both men agreed. But, they said, it would be a serious psychological defeat for the French and Vietmanese...
French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault issued a statement as the conference opened accusing the Vietminh of "violating the rules of war" by refusing to let the French fly out their many wounded from Dienbienphu...