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...stability achieved by De Lattre's masterly maneuvering against Ho Chi Minh's Communist guerrillas would collapse the minute 200,000 Chinese Communist forces, now poised along the Indo-Chinese border, slipped over the line, either in an outright invasion or in the guise of "volunteers...
...Retaliate. The French generals argued against a sapping sophistry that is prevalent in France as well as in the U.S. State Department: that in Indo-China...
...overt help to her should be avoided lest it dismay the Indians, the Burmese and the, Indonesians. The French wanted a definite U.S. promise of armed forces for IndoChina-sea and air support, not ground troops-in the event the Chinese invaded. Without such a commitment, the French argued Indo-China would fall to the Communists, and so, in a matter of time, would British Malaya, Burma, Siam and probably Indonesia...
...many shrugging Frenchmen are apt to regard such crises as merely a bad joke, and to say that the government runs itself without a Premier. But with the war hotting up in Indo-China, with a budget crisis at home, and with parliamentary decisions waiting to be made on NATO and the European Army, the pavane is in grave danger of becoming a danse macabre...
Died. General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, 62, French High Commissioner and Commander in Chief in Indo-China; of a prostate tumor; in Paris (see FOREIGN NEWS...