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...spite of its profound antiCommunism, is still firmly pacific, and, far from straining at the leash, will fight only when all reasonable chances of negotiation have failed. Peace is still, as in Jefferson's day, the American people's passion . . . By rejecting premature commitments in Indo-China, public opinion has overtaken the party cries...
...Carry On. Laniel continued:"The government has taken measures to provide our commander in chief with the means to carry on." It would send to Indo-China several more battalions of troops, crews and mechanics for 25 bombers, and two flotillas of naval craft, plus artillery, tanks and machine guns-but still no conscripts. Then he came to the crux of his plea for support: "I refuse to believe that at the present hour this Assembly intends to provoke a rupture of the negotiations . . . What other policy [than ours] do you propose? Some people seem to rely more upon...
...French had fewer than 20,000 in Hanoi, 50,000 (mostly shaky Vietnamese) elsewhere in the delta, and they were desperately flying in reinforcements from southern Indo-China and from France and North Africa (via U.S. airlift). Commanding General Navarre reportedly asked Paris for two fresh divisions, yet his officers did their best to appear calm and unconcerned. Said Navarre's top deputy in Hanoi last week: "The situation in the delta is serious, but not desperate." French generals said exactly that during the last days at Dienbienphu...
...propagandist, helped get "confessions" from prisoners and covered the war and truce negotiations from the Communist side (TIME, Aug. 6, 1951). In Geneva he left little doubt he was still on the same side. Wrote Burchett this week: "[The Communist] plan . . . for ending the war in Indo-China burst like a bombshell on the American and French delegation. It dissipated the pessimism among conespondents of all nations . . . and its rejection would be incredibly difficult...
...magic of the name "Ballets Russes" from the Diaghilev days, were excitedly preparing to look at the first performance in Western Europe by a sizable (50 members) Soviet ballet troupe. But the day before the opening, news came that Dienbienphu had fallen to Moscow's Communist allies in Indo-China. While defeated on the military front and retreating on Geneva's diplomatic front, the French stiffened on the ballet front...