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...French Army Reorganization Commission and called him over: "You! You there! I don't know you, but I want you to work for me. I like the way you think." Cogny rapidly became full colonel, regimental commander, executive secretary to the Defense Minister. De Lattre took Cogny to Indo-China, to London and Washington (where Cogny learned to speak English well). Cogny became De Lattre's disciple. After De Lattre died in January...
France named Cogny to command Indo-China's northern front with its crucial Red River Delta. Cogny, at 48, was a general...
...returned with orders to examine the proposal prayerfully and to suggest a modification: troops should stay in their present general positions, thus creating a smallpox pattern instead of large divisions, which would amount to partition. At week's end both sides had agreed to summon military commanders from Indo-China to study the regrouping and make recommendations. Pleaded Bidault: "There is need for haste here to save lives." Since he was thinking about French lives, the Communists were unimpressed...
...military posture. In Paris, he asked the Cabinet "to make one last military effort in IndoChina to back up my diplomatic effort." The Cabinet, which has acquired a certain courage from the realization that nobody wants to take over its unpleasant task, agreed, and set about sending reinforcements to Indo-China (see below...
Flying with Crows. Labor campaigned on promises-fatter pensions, lower taxes, better medical benefits - but did not say how it would pay for them without landing Australia in another inflationary cycle. Neither party gave much thought to Australia's foreign policy. Said the Sydney Morning Herald in disgust: "Indo-China might be as remote as Timbuktu." Yet Communism may have been the issue that kept Bob Menzies in power. The arrest of MVD Agent Vladimir Petrov and the rescue of his wife (TIME, April 26) gave the Liberals a readymade chance to revive their hoary cry: that Evatt...