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...responded promptly to the State Department's invitation to a joint statement. But there was new debate and soul-searching in all the free countries of the world. The Vietnamese government itself was strengthened when an important bloc of local fence-sitters decided to support the fight against Ho Chi Minh. In France, the anti-Communists spoke up more boldly. For the first time the French, noting that the Chinese Communists were already providing artillery and antiaircraft guns at besieged Dienbienphu, were saying that the war had entered a new phase and might be "internationalized," if necessary, after Geneva...
...Indo-China, "international Communism" is trying to gain "a stranglehold on the people," said Dulles, and its agent is Moscow-trained Ho Chi Minh. Ho's armies "are supplied with artillery and ammunition . . . much of it fabricated by the Skoda Works in Czechoslovakia and transported across Russia and Siberia, and then down through China to Viet...
...French did not do enough in time. But no longer can the French win militarily because French public opinion will not wait long enough for that. It would take until 1955 or 1956. If there is no solution at Geneva, French public opinion will want to negotiate with Ho Chi Minh. It is a tragedy because now, if they had a free choice, the Vietnamese would not vote for the Communists. But there is no patriotism in Viet Nam-it is not even a country. The intelligentsia have taken on the worst of the Western ways and have lost...
Hang the Consequences. A French victory at Dienbienphu would be a major setback for Ho Chi Minh, a defeat for Communists everywhere. It might also provide the kind of electric stimulus which, on occasion, makes France capable of surprising the world; at the very least, it would act as a tonic for those who insist that the war can still...
...middle and rich peasants are afraid to expose their wealth, fearing that somebody may come along to borrow from them without returning the loans-"like tigers borrowing pigs." The report quoted Middle Peasant Ho Yao-hsiang: "Why bother to make production such a success? It will be sufficient if you grow enough to keep yourself fed. Once you make a success of your production, your staircase will be leveled by the footsteps of visitors." Others were afraid of being accused of exploitation. "Because Poor Peasant Kan Yao-ching once lent grain to Kan Yung-lin, the masses wanted to promote...