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...years. It started as a slow guerrilla nuisance, with none of the dramatic shock of the Red attack in Korea, and at first the free world, including France herself, looked on it as a dubious cause. The Indo-Chinese Reds, led by a wily, veteran Communist, Ho Chi Minh, pretended with some success to be patriotic nationalists, rising against the yoke of French imperialism. In France itself, Communists and fellow travelers loudly berated "the dirty war," sneered at their countrymen who returned from the Indo-China theater, and sabotaged arms shipments to the French forces -then only a few thousand...
...with Ho turned Indo-China into a ledger of death and liability. In six years the French army in Indo-China lost 31,000 killed and missing. Today, 240,000 men, amounting to a third of France's armed forces, are tied down in the war against the Red Viet Minh-which means that, until that war is over, they are lost to Western Europe's defense...
...Romeo and Juliet (premiered by the Ballet Russe in 1926), soon began to mix conducting with composing, joined the Vic-Wells (later Sadler's Wells Ballet) Company as musical director. In later years he became a conductor for the BBC, and a prolific record maker. In Music Ho! (subtitled "A Study of Music in Decline") he took a gloomy view of most modern music, blasted Stravinsky, Hindemith and Schoenberg and derided "musical snobs" who failed to realize that Duke Ellington wrote "the most distinguished popular music since Johann Strauss...
Mobilization is a belated step in the right direction; it will be a long time before the Vietnamese army is trained and can begin to take some of the war's burden off the French. For the moment, Ho Chi Minh's Communist forces are licking the wounds De Lattre's hard-hitting campaign has inflicted on them. The situation, however, can change at any moment if the Chinese Reds come to Ho...
...indeed. Drawn by Bunce, Gifford, and Updyke they show a certain superficial technique, but can hardly be termed printable. In fact, that, to a great degree, is what is the matter with the stuff that appears in the Lampoon: none of it ever evokes a spontaneous "ha-ha," "ho-ho," or even a "tee-heo." The reaction of the average Lampoon reader is one of slow-boredom, gradual sleep, terminating, when he wakes up, with one of bitter disappointment...