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Britain recently confronted Washington with the disturbing news that perhaps one full division of the British army in Germany will have to be withdrawn unless the U.S. helps pay for its upkeep. France was still bogged down in the billion-franc-a-day war in Indo-China, which is consuming officers and NCOs faster than they can be trained. None of the 12 German divisions hoped for by 1953 is yet in sight...
...that. This $187 million is an addition to all other U.S. aid to France, which this year amounted to about $1 billion. Parisian hotheads leaked stories to the papers alleging that unless the U.S. paid up, France would 1) go bankrupt and possibly Communist, 2) pull out of Indo-China, 3) forbid German rearmament, 4) haul the U.S. before the NATO Council for welshing on its obligations. Premier Antoine Pinay fumed Gallicly because his budget, which he had promised to balance without increasing taxes, had been worked out on the assumption that the U.S. would fork over. Pinay sent French...
...Jacques is the Atlantic City of Indo-China, a city of palms and black sandy beach, at the mouth of the Saigon River. There, a group of French officers on sick leave were dining one evening last week with their families. A war was going on 800 miles to the north, but none of the officers was armed, nor were their sentries. At the entrance to the dining hall, Elysabeth, Nicole, Christian and Michel, children of M. Jean Perrin, vice president of Air Viet Nam, played hide & seek...
...Albany, Governor Tom Dewey announced that he was air-expressing several hundred smallmouth bass fingerlings to Emperor Boo Dai of Viet Nam, Indo-China. On his journey to the far Pacific last year, the governor explained, he found that the Emperor had never fished for bass, so Dewey had promised to send enough to stock some native streams...
...technical aid. Acheson blandly denied that the U.S. ever assigned a lower priority to Latin American problems. "There are two separate problems to be dealt with at the same time," he told reporters. "One is the need of our allies in the front line, those fighting in Korea, in Indo-China, the needs of French, British and our own troops in Europe. Those needs must be met or there will be no front line. But... we must carry out our historic policy in this hemisphere. Since the war, some $410 millions have been invested in Brazil. We are now entering...