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...Eastward Ho! Allen's first move was to merge C.F. & I. with another of his interests. Wickwire Spencer Steel Co. of Buffalo. That gave the company two blast furnaces in the East plus fabricating equipment in New England. More important, C.F. & I. also got Wickwire's Plant Superintendent Alwin Franz, a crack operating man who started in the steel business as an open-hearth pitman and is now C.F. & I.'s president...
...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 and the three Associated States of Indo-China...
...biggest and most important of the Indo-Chinese states, Viet Nam, was not so easily calmed. Assured at last of independence from France once the Communist threat is erased, the Vietnamese were in no mood to see their independence fall prey to a still strong and unreformed Ho Chi Minh. "The only way to end the war," said Viet Nam's Premier Nguyen Van Tarn, "is to beat the Viet Minh militarily and disperse their armies . . . Negotiations would have the effect of giving the Viet Minh an enormous advantage over...
...enemy side, the pieces added up roughly to this: the Communist forces of goat-bearded Ho Chi Minh. far too large and well organized to be called guerrillas, total about 300,000 men. They are arranged in six regular divisions, under able, boyish-looking General Vo Nguyen Giap. The U.S.S.R. is supplying them with arms, moved by Red China via the railway from Nanning, which runs south into the huge Viet Minh concentration in northern Viet Nam, crucial sector of the war. The Reds are well supplied with artillery, mortars and recoilless cannon, as well as machine guns and automatic...
...Washington, as in Paris, in Saigon, in the villages and river settlements of Indo-China, ears perked up last week at word from the jungles that Ho Chi Minh is on the march. In a few days his Red troops launched attacks against 15 French outposts. The long-anticipated big offensive seemed only weeks, perhaps days away. With their new spirit and their new commander, the French Union forces expect to blunt the attack. After that, the best the West can look forward to is a long and costly battle of attrition...