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With the Communists held in check in north Indo-China, the main problem facing General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny is the building of a native Viet Nam army. His aim is a force of 120,000 to take over the main burden of defense...
Behind the lack of officers lies the central, still-unsolved problem of Indo-China. Many competent Vietnamese refuse to join either army or government because they do not know whether the Communists or the French will win the civil war. The French call them Attentistes (literally, those who wait, or fence sitters). Says De Lattre: "To have a strong army, you must have a strong government...
Veteran French troops in Indo-China have a nickname for General de Lattre de Tassigny: "DDT." Puzzled De Lattre asked a correspondent: "Is it sympathetic?" Last week De Lattre, informed that it was sympathetic, gave Communist guerrillas behind his front lines the DDT treatment. In a vast, sweeping movement in the Red River delta, he surprised and stormed several fortified Communist villages. At week's end the guerrillas had lost 300 dead, 600 prisoners...
...world that the U.S. would resist this aggression. He did not, however, limit his action to Korea. In the same brief statement he said that the U.S. would defend Formosa (this decision reversed an Acheson policy) and give additional aid to anti-Communist forces in the Philippines and Indo-China...
This is not the only respect in which concentrators find their field unique; Sanskrit is the oldest Indo-European language still in use and is also one of the most difficult to learn...