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France: Spending 18.6% for defense, may increase to 29%. Under arms: 697,000 men, 7 divisions; 150,000 of her troops are in Indo-China. Available to NATO: 3 divisions now, 15 by the end of 1952. Equipment: fair, but improving with U.S. help. Morale: uncertain-i.e., poor but could be made good; shot through with Communism, beset by uncertainties of revolving-door government-facts which Premier Pleven (see The Presidency) refuses to recognize publicly; anti-Communism could be solidified...
After two days of friendly conversation, they came to agreement on two major points: i) the U.S. would not pull out of Korea and France would fight on with stepped-up U.S. aid in Indo-China; 2) France would not back-pedal on European defense...
...British troops (10,500 of them Gurkhas) were hunting Communist guerrillas in Malaya. A French Union army of 150,000 (including 20,000 Frenchmen) carried on the fight against the Reds in Indo-China...
Purpose of His Visit: Pleven & Truman will discuss U.S. aid for Indo-China, the Korean situation, French and German rearmament, a possible conference with Russia. Pleven laid himself open to Gaullist criticism of second-fiddling when he did not accompany Britain's Prime Minister Clement Attlee to Washington in December. Now he hopes to regain face for France...
...will-to-win met a will-to-win last week on Hill 101 in Indo-China. When the battle was over, the will of General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny dominated the field...