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...Ho's victories may set the French back months or years in their not-too-energetic efforts to clean out Ho's rebellion. If Ho could follow up his success and seize the rich Red River delta, the whole French position in Indo-China would be imperiled...
...still larger battlefield-the world -Ho's victory had a grim meaning. The bulk of France's army was already in Indo-China; more troops would have to be sent there to deal with the new threat. France was a vital link in European rearmament and France could not make its essential contribution to the defense of Europe as long as its army was tied up in Indo-China. A quick victory over Communism in Indo-China was necessary if Europe was to be made defensible...
...forts were to cut off Ho Chi Minh's Viet Minh rebel Communist army from the Chinese Communists. The French plan was to isolate the rebels in the wild hilly country which lies between the frontier and the Red River to the west. By holding the frontier and the good rice lands of the Red River delta the French hoped to starve out the Communists. For a while it looked as if the plan might work. Ho's radio exhorted his supporters to save rice, "every grain as precious as a drop of blood...
Last June, before the beginning of the war in Korea, documents captured by the French convinced them that Ho was about to receive extensive aid from Communist China's Mao Tse-tung. Mao, the French said, was training thousands of picked rebel Viet Minh troops in China and was equipping Ho's forces with heavy weapons. The Ho-Mao objective: the Red River delta. The time: after the summer monsoon and before the November rice harvest...
...cover the withdrawal they planned to attack Ho in his own "military capital," Thainguyen, a town 40 miles north of Hanoi. On Oct. 1 a combined French force of parachutists, infantry and naval units struck at Thainguyen. The operation was perfectly carried out in Western military style, but after a few skirmishes, the Viet Minh defenders melted away...