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Despite De Lattre's political progress, U.S. observers in Indo-China estimate that, in free elections, half the Indo-Chinese would still vote for Ho rather than French-supported...
...Lattre to his demoralized troops, "you will be led!" He was 62, a veteran of two World Wars and a colonial war (in North Africa), eight times wounded, 46 times decorated, the pre-NATO commander of West Europe's common defense-but the next 30 days in Indo-China carried his career to its pinnacle...
...liaison officer in Indo-China, Brigadier General Francis Brink, De Lattre handed a list of urgently needed weapons and supplies. He grasped at once the importance of a U.S. weapon ideal for jungle fighting: napalm. His predecessors had never used...
...Stand Up Like Men." In Indo-China, De Lattre has practiced the dynamic defense he preached for Europe. Not only has he transformed a whipped, dispirited French army into a resurgent, confident fighting force, he has also shaken up the leaders and the people of Viet Nam.* From their chief of state, Emperor Bao Dai, down to the peasant masses...
Vietnamese were pretty skeptical onlookers in the French struggle against Ho Chi Minh; they doubted whether that struggle had much to do with their own freedom. The Communist record in China and Korea shook their doubts, but still it seemed to them that the French cause in Indo-China was, at best, the lesser of two evils; proud Viet Nam nationalism could not forget the arrogant French colonialism of the past. Some of the bitterest criticism of France came from the native intelligentsia who spoke the purest French. Many joined Ho Chi Minh's camp. Many more played...