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FRANCE, drained of men and money by the Indo-China war, sees no hope of recruiting the three new divisions it promised for '53. The French blame their shortfall on 1) the diminishing yearly intake of French conscripts-the result of the low birth rate in the '30s; 2) lagging arms shipments from the U.S. All NATO divisions except the British rely on U.S. arsenals for 70% of their tanks, trucks and artillery, 50% of their communications gear; but with Korea as Priority No. 1, the U.S. has so far delivered only one-third ($3.2 billion worth...
...coming battle may be decisive. If Nasan should be overwhelmed, the French would be bottled up in the Hanoi delta, and there would be little to stop the Communists' sweeping down the entire length of Indo-China...
...broke out, a Columbia executive sighed for a Korean film. "How would you like A Yank in Korea?" asked Sam. "Great!" replied the executive. Six weeks and two days later, A Yank in Korea (a remake of A Yank in the R.A.F. and predecessor of A Yank in Indo-China) was ready for distribution...
...their own mobilization effort, Frye said that they have "plenty of oil to exploit in the Soviet bloc," and that if they get control of Iran they will undersell Western oil companies and thus, "use this oil as a lever to bring economic pressure" on India, China, Indo China and other nations in that region...
...Indo-China one day last week, 2nd Lieut. Francis Marion, armored cavalryman of the Moroccan Spahis, was rolling along Route Coloniale 11 in his tank, far in advance of his column. "Return at once," ordered his superior officer by the radio. "Give me five minutes more," said Marion. In that five minutes the young French reservist uncovered a Communist arms dump: 200 tons of American, Chinese, Japanese, Czech and French weapons, including 1,000 rifles, 60 submachine guns, 22 machine guns, 51 bazookas, 114 mortars, and three Russian-made trucks...