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From Red China down to south IndoChina this year have gone 3,000 Chinese military instructors, 3,000 tons of military equipment and quantities of salable opium. Up from south Indo-China have gone 35,000 tons of rice, 5,000 tons of salt and 30,000 trained replacements for the Viet Minh Communist army. The artery for this traffic was Route Coloniale No. 12, which passes through Hoa Binh, 32 miles southwest of Hanoi...
...bring back her people. That night Sergeant Chef Guy Pinceau, who had jumped with his pet poodle stuffed in his leg bag, served a dinner of beefsteak, peas and condensed wine to 2,000 paratroopers in Hoa Binh. It had been the biggest drop ever in Indo-China, and another handsome victory for General de Lattre...
Even the anti-American newspapers were impressed. The Lucknow National Herald appraised Bowles as "an American transcending inhibitions of a mere ambassador." New Delhi's Indian News Chronicle editorialized: "Expectations of better Indo-American understanding . . . seem to be well justified." There was no guarantee that winning friends would influence Pandit Nehru's bewildering brand of isolationism, but there was much to be said for finding...
...Germany's troops would be part of this international army, but France proposes to keep out six of her own divisions, principally for use in Indo-China. Each division will be composed of officers and men from one nation only. Internationalism will begin at the corps level. Running the whole show will be a European army headquarters, responsible to Dwight Eisenhower's SHAPE staff on the same level as NATO's separate British and American army components. European divisions will number only 13,000 men, instead of 18,000 as in a U.S. division. This satisfies...
...Indo-China, like all Gaul, is divided into three parts: Viet Nam, Cambodia and Laos. Cambodia, the smallest, is about the size of Oklahoma...