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...said his last word for the time being on the subject (of McCarthyism), President Eisenhower declared flatly. He answered questions on Indo-China (no decision on intervention) and on his proposed peacetime atomic pool (no hope of Soviet acceptance). Asked about a charge that Democrats were riding on his coattails, the President laughed: You don't know, just trying to ride someone else's coattail, where you are going...
...French, having jealously kept the Indo-China war to themselves for seven years, had starved it, botched it. come close to losing it, and were heartily sick of it. They wanted out. The French Assembly, with exquisite subtlety had given its government a bare two vote majority, enough to make a peace but not to fight...
Fiat-Footed Marketeers. In the Far East alone, some $110 million worth was called in. The secret was well kept. To reduce last-minute deals, troops were confined to bases before the news was broadcast, sailors confined to their ships (some thought they were about to be sent to Indo-China). Black-marketeers everywhere were caught flat-footed with thousands, perhaps millions, of dollars worth of MPCs, which turned to worthless paper in their hands...
...Korean war. "I [am] very happy to be an unemployed war photographer," he once said, "and I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life." But a month ago, in Japan, Capa changed his mind. LIFE asked him to cover the war in Indo-China, and he was quickly on his way to Hanoi. After he arrived he made a typically cocky pronouncement to newsmen, who have been complaining that censorship was preventing them from getting news. "You guys . . . don't appreciate that this is a reporter's war," said Capa. "Nobody...
...been killed by a Communist land mine.* In Hanoi, while a military honor guard stood by his casket, the French northern-front commander, General René Cogny, awarded a posthumous Croix de Guerre with palm leaf to Robert Capa, 40, the first U.S. correspondent to be killed in the Indo-China war. Said Cogny: "He fell like a soldier. He deserves a soldier's honors...