Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...editor promptly asked a key question: What will the U.S. do if the French withdraw? Replied Nixon: The U.S. as a leader of the free world cannot afford further retreat in Asia. It is hoped that the U.S. can avoid direct involvement in Indo-China. But if there is no other recourse, the Administration will have to face up to the situation and send troops...
...were tired of Korea . . . Some say that if the French get out, the Vietnamese will fight with more spirit because they would be fighting for their independence. But the Vietnamese lack the ability to conduct a war by themselves or to govern themselves. If the French withdraw, Indo-China will become Communist-dominated within a month...
...have in this week's hearings. Chairman Mundt announced that Joe should not be allowed to sit as a committee member because, under the committee's rules, that would permit him to question witnesses, a privilege that would be denied to Army lawyers. If McCarthy refuses to withdraw, the issue would probably be taken to the Senate floor, but no one thought Joe would want to risk a rebuke by a roll-call vote of the whole Senate...
...tough foreign legionnaires, Frenchmen, North Africans, Thais, Cambodians and Vietnamese snatch back one outpost. At 0800, De Castries counterattacks again, and fails. At 1000, he goes in for the third time-and wins. But two hours later, De Castries has to withdraw. Says an HQ spokesman: "This is the most violent struggle of the war." All day the French hang...
...parity with Roosevelt and Churchill; it recalls France's insistence on a special German occupation zone and its determination to be acknowledged as a world power-as one of the Big Three. Now that Germany is resurgent, that power and pride are endangered. If France were to withdraw from Indo-China, it would in effect contract itself to a nation with only an African empire, and even in Africa the nationalists would draw lessons from IndoChina's example. It is this pride that makes the French soldier a much-admired man out here, but this pride also gives...