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When The Seven Deadly Sins first came to this country, some critics objected to Gluttony as mere filth. True, the story is only the retelling of a bawdy tale, but it is done so skilfully as to be delightful. Henri Vidal is riotously pompous as the traveling salesman who passes up a chance to sleep with a beautiful farmer's wife for a piece of cheesecake...
Indo-China. In a series of carefully mortised negotiations from Saigon to Washington to Paris, Dulles persuaded the French government to promise General Henri Navarre enough troops to carry out "the Navarre Plan" for defeating the Communist-led Viet Minh rebels. The U.S.'s quid for France's quo: a promise of $385 million in aid over the next year for the war in Indo-China. Under Dulles' pressure France also gave assurances of independence to the native states of Laos, Cambodia and Viet Nam. This meant that Indo-Chinese nationalists were no longer faced with...
...HENRI DESCAMPS-FAJARDO Caracas, Venezuela...
...Reds (TIME, Sept. 28), the report shocked U.S. policymakers. "State Department officials were hopping mad," one correspondent reported. But when they read the complete text of Schumann's remarks and heard the hasty explanations of French officials,U.S. diplomats calmed down. Paris was still solidly behind General Henri Navarre's "We must attack" program for Indo-China, the French explained, but Paris was also hopeful that successful military operations might force Viet Minh Leader Ho Chi Minh, and his Russian and Chinese mentors, to give up the war and accept terms favorable to the Western powers...
...Henri Navarre himself is confident of ultimate victory, and he has communicated this to many of those who are counting on him. Said one of them last week: "A year ago none of us could see victory. There wasn't a prayer. Now we can see it clearly-like light at the end of a tunnel...