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...Indo-China war, which costs a billion francs a day, drains off almost all France's U.S. dollar aid. With peace in Indo-China, the budget would balance...
Europe, despite years of effort and the expenditure of billions of U.S. dollars, is still not defensible. France, drained by Indo-China, is in grave economic crisis. West Germany is still unarmed, still unable to defend itself against a Russian advance that might make a Communist military spearhead out of German men and industry...
...crowded National Assembly one night last week, doughty Edgar Faure explained that the new taxes are urgently needed for the campaign in Indo-China and for French defense at home. "I am living a nightmare daily," he said, "with what the treasury is paying out for the armies' costs." Item One, appropriating 130 billion francs for the Indo-China war, got a handsome majority-512 to 104. But Item Two brought a serious revolt in the ranks of Faure's own party, the right-wing Radical Socialists. Under heavy pressure from their peasant constituents, who disliked the Premier...
...French Mung tribesmen. It was a major French victory, and the French proudly announced: "We shall never give up Hoa Binh." Hoa Binh was important because it straddles Route Coloniale No. 12, along which Chinese coolies had sneaked loads of ammunition from Red China to Communist guerrillas in southern Indo-China...
...hold Hoa Binh against Communist counterattacks, General Raoul Salan, De Lattre's successor in Indo-China, increased the French garrison to 23,000 men, sent his shoestring air force to strafe Red convoys. But the Reds were too strong: using Russian antiaircraft guns, they shot down ten French planes in seven days' fighting. Viet Minh raiders slipped through the French defenses, infiltrated the delta...