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...French officer in Hanoi saw a moon-faced little Indo-Chinese looking at a book the Frenchman had left on his desk. "May I borrow the book?" the little man asked politely. "As soon as I have finished reading it myself," the Frenchman replied. The book: War in the Rear of the Enemy...
...withdrawing before French counterattacks. His name: General Vo Nguyen Giap (pronounced Yap). Since the husky voice of Communist Leader Ho Chi Minh disappeared from the Viet Minh propaganda radio two years ago, the French have come more & more to believe that Giap is their chief antagonist in Indo-China...
Death Means Nothing. World War II brought a Japanese occupation to Indo-China, but left the (Vichy) French with a few threads of authority. Under the name of Comrade Van, Giap became Ho Chi Minh's right-hand man and organized a Communist underground army of liberation (i.e., liberation from both Japanese and French). In Hanoi, the French threw his wife into jail, with a sentence of 15 years, and there she died. When Giap led his "liberation" troops into the valley of Dinh Ca in 1944, his merciless liquidation of government officials and wealthy farmers gave cruel force...
...Assembly that, although the fall of Nghialo was "painful for our prestige and losses we have suffered," neither the "means to fight" the six-year-long war nor the "ability to maneuver" had been lost. But a gloomy reserve officer said: "It looks as though from now on the Indo-Chinese war is to be a permanent nightmare...
...grievances against French colonial rule in North Africa be aired in the U.N.; 2) cutting 20% of 1953 military aid to France: "Without doubt the Marshall Plan helped us, and we have often cited the benefits with gratitude [the Rhone dam was one], but unfortunately defense of freedom in Indo-China has already cost us just about double what we have received . . ."; 3) ignoring France's objections to German rearmament: "Although we have no hatred for those who made us suffer so much, and we desire to forget their cruelties if they agree not to forget them, certain apologies...