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...Southeast Asia is the cornerstone of the defense of the Pacific. But at this moment, there are areas in Southeast Asia where a power vacuum exists [e.g., Malaya, Indonesia, Indo-China] ... We must make . . . one single treaty-all for one and one for all ... With such a program ... we would have actually more human beings [850 million] on our side . . . than there are in all the miserable slave states under Communist control. . . Such tremendous might on the side of freedom . . . would be more than any tyrant would dare attack. It would be the greatest alliance in history for peace...
...Lattre runs his war in Indo-China in his usual grand manner. When not at the front, at his headquarters in Hanoi or Saigon, the routine is about the same. He sits at a huge, black-lacquered desk in Saigon's Norodom Palace; a map of the front stands behind him, and a grandfather clock ticks away. He stays up till 3 or 4 a.m. reading field reports, then issues his orders for the next day and turns in. He is up again at 10 or 11, after receiving advisers while still in bed. He is a meticulous dresser...
...Lattre wants even more. A scornful opponent of bits-&-pieces warfare, De Lattre burningly wants the U.S., Britain and France to agree on a unified strategy against Communism in Southeast Asia. He insists that Korea, Indo-China and Malaya (where 32,000 British and Commonwealth soldiers are still fighting Red guerrillas) are only different battles of the same war; they should all be fought within an overall plan...
...with President Harry Truman. He prayed at George Washington's tomb at Mount Vernon, went to Mass on Sunday. At the Pentagon he lunched with General of the Army George Marshall and his successor as Defense Secretary, Robert Lovett. At the State Department, he briefed Dean Acheson on Indo-China. "Very interesting . . . I got a clear picture for the first time," said the Secretary. "We shall do all that is possible...
...Indo-China is now divided into the three Associated States of Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia, of which Viet Nam is the largest (its 23 million people comprise more than 80% of all Indo-Chinese...