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...French have a good way to describe a tired army. They say it needs revalorizing. Since his arrival in Indo-China three months ago, General Henri Navarre has been revalorizing the French Union army by converting it from static defense to fluid offense. For his showpiece of fluidity, Navarre chose to attack a 15-mile string of Communist-infested Annamese villages, called by the laconic Legionnaires "The Street Without Joy," because of their long and bitter record of resistance...
...fine opportunity, and the French made the most of it. Red General Vo Nguyen Giap had become overconfident, counting on French reluctance to leave the safety of their forts. He reckoned without France's offensive-minded new commander in Indo-China, General Henri Eugene Navarre. The attack at Langson cost the Reds two months' supplies, and gave notice that from now on Giap would have to think of his supply line before rampaging around the countryside...
...Paris, the French Cabinet studied the plans of General Henri Navarre for a fall offensive against the Viet Minh, and moved sharp-eyed Ambassador Maurice Dejean from Tokyo to be Commissioner General in Saigon. Said Dejean: "They [the Associated States] will get all the freedom they want, limited only by the amount they will accept...
...Laniel has represented the department of Calvados in the French Parlia ment for more than half a century. When old Henri Laniel, wealthy linen manufacturer, died in 1932, if seemed natural to Normans that son Joseph, a much-decorated artillery captain in World War I, should take his father's seat in the Assembly. Young Laniel achieved no particular distinction in politics, though in the dark days of 1940 he was for a time Under Secretary for Finance in Reynaud's ill-fated cabinet. When the Germans arrived, Laniel refused to operate the family linen factory...
Only two things were known about General Henri Eugène Navarre in Indo-China: 1) he was a cavalryman; 2) he was the intelligence officer who had divined the exact and detailed order of battle of the German army facing France in September 1939. After three weeks as commander in chief of the French Union forces in Indo-China, little more was known about him. A small, shy man. he appeared to detest ostentation and ceremony. He hardly showed himself to the troops, and he evaded newsmen. Once he got into the news by accident when Communists shot...